I realized in the last few years how much my media habits have totally changed.

Just trying to get an idea where everyone spends their time and money?


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Do you listen to AM/FM radio? How many hours per week average?

Do you listen to internet radio? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Do you listen to satellite radio? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Do you use the internet? How many hours per week average?

Do you watch network television? What stations? How many hours per week average?

From what sources do you get most of your news?

Do you watch cable television? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Do you watch pay movie channels like HBO and Showtime? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Do you read paper newspapers? Which ones? How often?

Do you read paper magazines? Which ones? How often?

Do you read online magazines/newspapers? Which ones? How often?

Do you go to the theater to watch movies? How much in the last year have you spent at the movies?

Do you rent videos/DVD's? How often?

Do you buy CD's? How much have you spend in the last year on CD's?

Do you buy and play video games? How much have you spent on them in the last year?

No to radio. FOr going on 15 years, though--not a change.

Internet radio...no.

Satellite...good station on XM called Acoustic Cafe, I think...plays everything I own about a year behind me.

"use the internet"? To talk to you fuckers? A good number of hours, probably....I'm not sure I want to know.

Network TV--recorded...probably a total of 4-5 hours week-during new seasons.

Newspaper/print mags---rarely. Get the weekend here-mostly recycle.

Intenet magazines--oxymoron, IMO. BS. Nope.

Movies--I usually hit one a month (theatre). 2 more at "pay per view" on cable. I should get more in the theatre. MsPop is 100% to blame for that number being low.

CDs...avg 50 per year. Slowing down the last 2 or so...majors are slipping.

DVDs...rarely since PPV got so massive. I'll buy really "great" flix--usualy the ones I saw in the theatre.

Video Games...I have a PS2, and a PC...I tend to buy one every year or so. And not finish it. I don't find the time it takes to dedicate like I did in my "non music" period.

Do you listen to AM/FM radio? How many hours per week average?

After 9/11 I started listening to conservative talk radio in the car for about a year. Finally got sick of it. We do listen to a classic pop radio station when Max is eating his meals in the kitchen. He actually requests it. He'll say, "102.9!" Maybe an hour a day.

Do you listen to internet radio? What stations? How many hours per week average?

For about the last three years I listen to internet radio almost exclusively while I'm
at my computer. Very often it is http://di.fm/ Probably have it on 10-20 hours a week. I've spent quite a bit of time listening at http://www.iacmusic.com in the last couple of months - mostly to the various Chill Zone stations I've programmed.

Do you listen to satellite radio? What stations? How many hours per week average?

We have Sirius in one of our cars, and are getting it installed in the other car, and also
getting a Sirius receiver for the house. Often play Howard 100, Kids stations, and Comedy channels. We're in the car around 3-5 hours per week.

Do you use the internet? How many hours per week average?

Yep. Probably on it 6-8 hours a day.

Do you watch network television? What stations? How many hours per week average?

I almost never watch the networks anymore. I do still like programs like 20/20, 60 Minutes and Dateline, and will catch them if they happen to be on. Maybe 2 hours a week.

From what sources do you get most of your news?

I use Google News a few times a day. It's become my main source for news. I've given up on channels like CNN, Fox, MSNBC.

Do you watch cable television? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Yep. Mostly channels like Discovery Science and Animal Planet. Maybe 10 hours a week average.

Do you watch pay movie channels like HBO and Showtime? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Yes. Often HBO shows like Sopranos, 6FU, and Big Love.

Do you read paper newspapers? Which ones? How often?

No. Never. Not in the last few years.

Do you read paper magazines? Which ones? How often?

My wife gets People Magazine, and I'll thumb through that when I'm in the john. I get TapeOp. That's it.

Do you read online magazines/newspapers? Which ones? How often?

Yep. New York Times. salon.com. But I mostly read online mazine articles that are linked off of Google News.

Do you go to the theater to watch movies? How much in the last year have you spent at the movies?

I haven't been to a movie in a couple of years. In fact the last time was with Jazzooo in San Diego in the fall of '03.

Do you rent videos/DVD's? How often?

No. Not for many years.

Do you buy CD's? How much have you spend in the last year on CD's?

I've bought two CD's in the last five years.

Do you buy and play video games? How much have you spent on them in the last year?

Nope. Don't buy or play video games.

Do you listen to AM/FM radio? How many hours per week average?

yes - AM only because the antenna in my wife's car is fucked and that's what I'm driving at the mo'. I listen to a local indie kinda station that's stuck in the 70's. FM - yes, on the way to work and home when I drive my car. National youth network. I get put on to a lot of new music from this station: www.triplej.net.au
Probably 1-2 hrs / week

Do you listen to internet radio? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Yes - I dial up some of the ones in iTunes. Nothing in particular. some of the chill ones, some of the alternative stuff. About 2hrs/week

Do you listen to satellite radio? What stations? How many hours per week average?

No

Do you use the internet? How many hours per week average?

yep - work and home - 14-20 hrs/week

Do you watch network television? What stations? How many hours per week average?

yep. Only a couple of shows such as prison break and the amazing race, a little news. Probably 4 hrs/week

From what sources do you get most of your news?

from network TV above, google news on weekends

Do you watch cable television? What stations? How many hours per week average?

Do you watch pay movie channels like HBO and Showtime? What stations? How many hours per week average?

no

Do you read paper newspapers? Which ones? How often?

no, not anymore for the last year

Do you read paper magazines? Which ones? How often?

yep, www.audiotechnology.com.au
comes out bi-monthly

Do you read online magazines/newspapers? Which ones? How often?

no, but I'd subscribe to the eSub version of Sound on Sound if I had some spare disposable income.

Do you go to the theater to watch movies? How much in the last year have you spent at the movies?

very rarely. probably twice in the last year and only to watch stuff with my son

Do you rent videos/DVD's? How often?

rarely, probably about 4 times in the last year

Do you buy CD's? How much have you spend in the last year on CD's?

rarely, maybe 5 cd's last year

Do you buy and play video games? How much have you spent on them in the last year?

no

my media habits are quite boring really!

Do you listen to AM/FM radio? How many hours per week average?
NPR.....and a few college stations..Connecticut actually has some decent college stations..I listen about 2 hours a week.
Do you listen to internet radio? What stations? How many hours per week average? Hardly....but when I do... VSPR

Do you listen to satellite radio? What stations? How many hours per week average? NO. Not yet anyway..I am tempted though to get it.

Do you use the internet? How many hours per week average? Not much lately...perhaps an hour a week....used to be about 10+/wk.

Do you watch network television? What stations? How many hours per week average? No.

From what sources do you get most of your news? The net.... Znet
IMC

The Nation

SchNews

Gaurdian

RSF

The Hartford Advocate

Do you watch cable television? What stations? How many hours per week average? No.

Do you watch pay movie channels like HBO and Showtime? What stations? How many hours per week average? No.

Do you read paper newspapers? Which ones? How often? The Hartford Advocate...Published once a week....good rag for local and regional events....decent political columns both local and national.

Do you read paper magazines? Which ones? How often? The Nation once a month....... Adbusters on occasion..... TapeOp seems I am always reading a current or back issue... Colors is a decent mag I read once in a while... Signal to Noise , once in a while...

Do you read online magazines/newspapers? Which ones? How often? see above links for news..

Do you go to the theater to watch movies? How much in the last year have you spent at the movies? Once evry 3 months...I think last year I went to the movies 3 or four times..

Do you rent videos/DVD's? How often? Netflix rocks!!! I currently have the 4 at a time plan...Been very happy with this..Though it is hard to predict what you might want to watch 2 weeks from now..it's important to manage the que......especially since my g/f has some very different tastes in film...But these guys have it all, incl. and excellent documentary section, and independant and foriegn film selection, not to metion TV series, and music..

Do you buy CD's? How much have you spend in the last year on CD's? Cd's definately....Probably 2 or 3 hundred.

Do you buy and play video games? How much have you spent on them in the last year? No.



It's tough 'cause a lot of this stuff can really distract me. Esp. when it comes to making music.
I havn't had cable or network TV in years, the net can be my big distraction...

Mine's simple:

No TV whatsoever. Pulled the plug about 4 years ago and have been far happier ever since. My TV is just a monitor for watching rented movies now.

Once in a great while we hit a film in the theaters, and usually regret the waste of money for such a pile of shit. Mostly it's lots of rentals though. And the last couple years I've been buying up all the old VHS tapes that all the stores are practically giving away.

I'm mildly addicted to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. No other video games though.

I get all my news online from a wide variety of sources.

I never buy new CDs - always used, mostly through amazon. And I buy lots of used cassettes and LPs at the store.

I listen to the local indie radio station now and then, when they've got the bluegrass show or the blues show on. Otherwise no radio, regular or Internet.

I subscribe to the New Yorker and the Sun and the Oxford American. The only three decent magazines in existence as far as I'm concerned.

Chris

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Originally posted by kid-surf:
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PS........ Funny you didn't mention books at all.

Ha! I knew I was forgetting something.

I got a serious reading jag for about 10 years - from around '88-'98 - and read well over 4000 books. I used to have a library of 2500+ books. I've read most of the classic novels - from Hemingway to Hess and from Dickens to Dostoevsky, lots of sci-fi [huge Asimov fan], and quite a bit on philosophy and comparative religion. Got buried in some funny occult and esoteric stuff for a few years - when I had more time on my hands.

I used to often have a book lying on an open dictionary, and would look up any word I didn't understand. Picked that little trick up from L Ron Hubbard. : ) But over the last few years, I use Google as a spellchecker and will look up words on the net.

I did read "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer not too long ago. It's about that group of people who went up Mt. Everest and ran into a bad storm. I'd known Sandy Pittman a bit when I was in NYC back in the '80's. Pretty intense read.

Actually, I've been thumbing through "The Single Malt Whisky Companion" over the last few days.

I've got "Godel, Escher, Bach" sitting open by my couch, and will read through a few pages when I lie down. I've had my nose in that book off and on for probably fifteen years. And there's a great book that almost always puts me to sleep, "On the Sensations of Tone" by Hermann Helmholtz. Great stuff about music and tone - it's just very "heady". I'll read a page or two and doze off.

We still do have around 1000 books here [none out of my other 2500+-book library that's long gone]. We probably do buy 20-30 books a year still.