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Comment on UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says

abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Not young and have two teenagers that don’t watch TV ever (youtube on the other hand, oh lord).

Probably biased sample (age, tech biased etc) but I did a couple of straw polls at the pub when I was thinking of ditching the tv licence and that’s the basis for the statement. They could of course be telling fibs 😁 but the general consensus was “why have the tv licence with what you can get from netflix Amazon disney etc”.

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yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

straw polls at the pub

So last time I was visiting friends in Northern England one of the really important events was going to the pub to watch the match. There you go, one room full of people clicking „watched live tv last week“.

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- abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Good point. But aren’t most of the matches (and most sports generally) on paid/cable tv ? Everything of any consequence seems to be on Sky or BT Sports ? I rarely watch sport so I’m a bit out of the loop. I understood a handful of major events are legislated to have to be available on the BBC but only a few. Is that wrong ?
  
  The “live tv” in the article above is just the stuff you need a TV licence for I thought ? BBC and ITV ?
  
  If all the football fans are able to watch on BBC then all of sudden that’s a much bigger number for sure.
  
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