Broadcast Networks Versus Cable/Satallite Channels.

How often do you turn your TV on expecting to spend some of your time watching some kind of program on a Broadcast TV or Cable channels?

Coming from a country(Brazil) where Cable TV is just too expensive to have it at home, I particularly love how often you can turn on your TV and not even need to have cable because you have lots of opportunities and different channels that you can get along with, that cable TV is more of a not necessity kind of thing. But on the other way, is just so cheap compared with where I'm from that sometimes I just find myself seeing movies, or cartoons on TNT or Cartoon Network for example.
I, myself, love to go home and at nights, watch ''Family Guy" on Fox TV. I love it because it's funny, it has a huge sense of humor and you find so many different kind of topics that sometimes you just wonder who the hell created that show.

I like watching FOX as well for the news. I love how polemic became the fact that the White House is having some kind of '' not agreement'' with everything that they show on Fox News and I just think it's beatiful that you can see different points of view, not only being limited to watch whatever ''they'' want you to see it and learn from it.

I would say that I spend half of my precious time on Broadcast TV and the other half with something on CABLE. I don't really spend that much time with TV because now I'm studying a lot, but back in my country I use to spend at least 5 to 6 hours of my day in front of TV watching soap operas, movies, tv shows and all of that, because in Brazil we have this big TV company called: GLOBO, that has a big influence on the brazilian population. It dictates what is fashion or not, what kind of food you should like, places you should go, football games on TV, etc.

Here in America I fell like there's so many different things to offer to you that you don't really concentrate in what is good or not, and you just watch whatever.

I have some sort of passion for some American shows... FRIENDS for example got my attention back in highschool in Brazil on Warner Bros, and made me feel attached to the TV show that even if they are playing old episodes( since the show is over, unfortunately ), I would stop my life to go and see it, because it's fun, and it shows six adults living in New York City and having their own problems but all kind of relating to how we all have a child inside of us, it doesn't matter how old you are.

ABC, CBS and NBC NEWS, are those kind of channels that I would only watch for school purpose, or maybe to get some more information about an important event that I couldn't understand from either FOX NEWS or CNN.

Talking about Cable or Satellite Channels, everything changes. Since I was little I use to love watching those shows on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, back in Brazil. Now, living here in the United States I don't really watch that often. First, because I'm not a child anymore... Second, because I don't have time for that. The only time that I have left, I have to pay attention on the NEWS channels, because I'm studying Journalism, so I have to read a lot, and I have to be brought up to the actual facts around the world.

There's so many different things taking our attention on this world full of news tools that we kind of get a little bit lost on what to focus on. TV for sure takes some sort of time of my life dayly. I guess we have to know how to deal with that right?