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?

What Gets Your Attention daily?

Every day, we have a routine that brings us to this crazy and fast world were each of us draw a line wich must be followed almost like every single day. We always wake up, drink our coffe, eat something, grab wherever we need and leave, either to work or school.

I have to assume that is not very often that I read some kind of magazine, because I read more newspaper, but everytime I stop to take a look at a magazine, there is something that brings my attention to it. Magazines that brings topics about travelling like: "Viagem e Turismo" from Brazil, are the reason why I stop my day to read every single article.The fact that I'll be reading a magazine that takes me everywhere without really getting out of my house it's brilliant.

If you open "Viagem e Turismo" you'll see not only pictures about travelling, but also will read experiences of regular people, like you and me, travelling around the world, talking about best spots that we shouldn't miss while visiting such and such country. You'll also see top 10 lists of hotel, restaurants, languages that they speak, best events, etc. No, I don't subscribe this magazine, but only because I'm here in the USA now, because when I was in Brazil, it was obviously the type of magazine that would be in my house, every single room that you'd be passing by, if you were there visiting me.

Talking about experiences inside or outside of your house, I also have the passion for movies. And yes, I love to go see it at the cinema( like the british say), not at home. Of course, when I don't have time, or when I need something more relaxing, I'd rather stay at home, then leave the house to go to the movies. But, to go there, sit in front of this huge screen, perfect sound and image. Specially if it is a movie like: " Harry Potter" that you just get amazed by the special effects.

Recently one movie got my attention: " Law Abiding Citizen". I got this free ticket to go see it and to be sincere with you, It's violent. And I just don't like films that have violent topics, or people start kiling for no reason, and they acctually show you the way they kill everybody, but this movie is FANTASTIC! The story intrigues differents points of view of the law sistem in the US and brings the fact that sometimes people don't care about doing justice with their own hands.

To go there, and be part of this huge screen experience is one of the best shots for me in life. I like unpacking the story, getting nervous, excited, crying, laughing. It's this mix of emotions that you are afraid of showig inside of this room full of people. But, you feel like: '' It's dark, nobody is seeing or listening to me, so why not to cry when Harry Potter is challenged by Voldermort, and you think he is going to die" .

I know, there's tons of sensations and feelings that we bring either travelling around the world trough a Magazine, or a Movie. And we all know our habits of reading or seeing a movie that everytime that these two events happen we all react on a different way. Maybe we are on the bathroom sitting there, concentrated reading some interesting topic about the Rain Forest on the "Viagem a Turismo" Magazine. Or, we are on the movies, eating popcorn, drinking soda or tea, and trying to understand what happened with the robots and human beings on: " The Surrogates". Magazines and Films are not only part of our routine, but also part of our lives.