Re: TV's Top Earners

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Lance McLain wrote:
> So anyone else considering dropping cable tv programming?

I haven't had it since I got married.  We *did* get to watch cable when we 
lived in my uncle's basement suite for six months, a few years ago, but I 
found I used it mostly to watch Letterman and Conan (and maybe Carson 
Daly, if I *really* felt like staying up late).  I think D used it to keep 
up with a few other shows at the time, too, like Heroes.  (D frequently 
takes TV-show sets home from the library and goes through them rather 
methodically.  Me, I've only done that with BSG, Rome and Big Love.)

FWIW, I have watched the last two years' worth of Oscars via justin.tv, 
and I watched part of this year's Golden Globes the same way.  It was 
actually fun to watch the Oscars via a *British* feed, because for *them*, 
it takes place in the wee hours of the evening/morning (if the ceremony 
starts at, say, 6pm in Los Angeles, that's 2am in the UK -- and of course, 
the Oscars being as long-winded as they are, the ceremony isn't over until 
something like 10pm in Los Angeles, which is 6am in the UK).

> My family watches more Netflix streaming, DVD's, Hulu and Youtube than 
> regular TV.

Hulu doesn't exist in Canada.  Netflix became available here a few months 
ago but has a much narrower selection here than it does south of the 
border.  YouTube, thankfully, is *almost* as good up here as it is 
Stateside -- but, yes, sometimes it, too, doesn't play outside the U.S. 
And very few of the network websites (NBC, etc.) work up here either. 
(Fortunately, The Comedy Network does host entire episodes of The Daily 
Show, etc. ... but it does so using entirely different URLs than the 
American websites do.  So whenever Americans link to those videos or embed 
those videos, we Canadians have to figure out which segment of which 
episode the Americans are referring to, before we can track it down.)

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