Assignment 5 - Drew

I personally don't watch a lot of network T.V., and let me give you the primary reason. My family at one point subscribed to cable (where a viewer had at their disposal almost 1000 channels), but finally came to the realization that, of those 1000 channels, we watched less than 20 of them, and of those we only regularly watched 10 of them. So now we watch the few channels afforded us by the digital antenna, and almost exclusively watch those for sports.

But I wouldn't say I don't watch T.V. The rest of the family and I do spend time watching the television, but not in the traditional network sense. Through a device called Apple TV, we get Netflix on the television, and we watch it on a regular basis. Many people don't like this approach because they don't get the newest shows. But we as a family realized that, having watched network T.V. during our subscription to cable, really didn't watch many of the "new" shows. Netflix not only gives us on demand access to hundreds of series of shows IN THEIR ENTIRETY (something you can't do with cable), but also gives us instant access to programs that don't (and probably never will again) air on network T.V. For example, my family and I regularly watch portions of all 5 series of Star Trek (the Original Series, Next Gen., DS 9, Voyager, and Enterprise), my dad has gone through the entirety of Numbers and the newer Battlestar Gallactica, and we've periodically watched episodes of such shows as MacGyver and the A-Team.