Are we very unusual no tv

I have one - but very rarely watch it. I think, in my case, I'm not that bothered because my mother always always always had the darn thing on but wouldnt accept me using heating in my bedroom in the winter and so it kept interrupting my studies (ie because I got fed-up with freezing in my bedroom whilst trying to do my homework - and so came down into the sitting room and her tv-watching then disturbed my homework every blimmin' time and I knew she knew it and wouldnt do anything about it!!!!!!).

Hence tv's became something I resent to some extent. Add that, as an adult, I had a live-in job in a college for a while where everyone else was also living-in and the tv room had its proper place of importance (a remotely-located lounge on the premises - that very few of us ever went in).

I do note down any "intelligent" type programmes that come up - but often don't get round to watching them. I do occasionally use the tv for escapism - ie when I'm particularly fed-up with this century I switch on the tv channel with "life that I recognise" (ie because it's fiction programmes from the 1980s for instance).

We do not have a tv and haven’t for years, nor a tv licence, meaning we cannot view anything BBC online.

None of our children do either, although they all have large flatscreens enabling films, documentaries, etc.

We do not have a radio either.
As a single person I never had one

However - laptop, tablet, smartphone -
out of my cold, dead hands!

I love having a tv living alone it is a means of hearing someone talking to me and although not everything is good there are some very interesting programmes I m usually doing other things as well

Top Gear would be one of the programme that would make me get rid of mine!

I look at the BBC news on my iPad. I can quickly pass over all the bad news and keep up with anything important. I no longer listen to news on the radio as it’s an hour of politics and war everytime. Likewise if any other programme on radio wants to include politics or war, I turn it off.
I have a friend who, in her 80s, said she was not going to watch or read anything unpleasant in the time she had left. Very wise.

Like MOnica I dislike watching tv and would happily ditch it. DH likes watching the news and then aimlessly channel hops but he’d never agree to getting rid of it.

When I was young my parents didn't have a TV and I only watched at my grandparents' home. When they updated their set they gave us the old one, but we only had BBC as ITV needed a much bigger aeriel due to poor reception where we lived. My parents attitude was "The only argument is it is either on or off!"

When my dad was off sick for many weeks my mum got us a more modern TV via rental so he could have some entertainment when we were out during the day. That was when we first had a choice of channels, the then new BBC2 and ITV. I was a teenager at the time and conversations at school were often about what we had watched the night before, so I was finally able to join in. I did feel very deprived before that. He eventually retired very young due to ill health and had a new TV as a retirement present. He had certainly come to appreciate its presence as he was no longer out playing sports all the time.

I now probably watch too much TV and would be lost without it. The set is on most of the time when I'm home as I feel it keeps me company as I live alone. I'm often doing other things when watching, such as pottering online, checking email etc but I like to have the background noise.
I often wonder if I'd be less dependant on TV if I hadn't been deprived of it when younger. However I'm happy with just the terrestrial channels and use my laptop or a firestick to access catchup. I certainly don't need the amount of choice that is available and wouldn't pay extra for more choice. I think the TV licence is pretty good value for what I use.

Another one who has given up conventional TV set. I have a good laptop and am happy to watch streaming channels. It saves me the bother of digging out glasses to see a distant screen and putting in hearing aid so as not to have to turn volume way up.

I have never particularly cared for TV. I do still have a set, but that is just because I have not decided whether I want to keep it so I ca see films on the large screen.

Like OP I use may computer for the news, and as we now have a Media licence in Denmark not a Television Licence, I obviously cannot not pay that, as it covers internet usage and the old radio licence.

But yes, judging by friends' comments, we are the odd ones!

It is unusual but if it suits you - fine. I o watch tv. generally from about 7.30p.m. until 10.00p.m. It is good company as I am a widow. I do read and garden, walk about 2/3 miles daily weather permitting and I'm 83.

A neighbour of mine has no TV. She is very well off but incredibly mean. If there’s something on she goes to a friend’s house to watch it because she won’t pay for a TV licence.

We have a man round for a meal every few weeks and he doesn’t have a TV, relies completely on his radio.

No, you are not unusual at all, creakingandchronic, I know lots of people who don't own a Tv!

Haven't had a TV for about 8 years although I do have a TV licence. If I want to watch something, I watch it on my laptop.

So good I typed it twice

I love my TV and wouldn't want to be without it, but every respect for those who choose not to not to. We're all different.

I have a TV and licence and a BT package, I very rarely watch anything unless I hear about something I might watch.

I love to read.

I'm finding I turn to my radio more these days. I can do other things while listening. I enjoy trying to teach myself how to paint and radio is the perfect companion while doing this. Its relaxing listening to music or stimulating listening to chat shows .😊

My TV is actually a monitor for my laptop which I operate from the couch on wifi. R

After I emigrated to New Zealand I bought a new television. It was mainly for the benefit of my grandchildren. However, my late husband used to switch it on immediately after dinner – sometimes during dinner – and sit watching until late in the evening. He seemed to be obsessed with Claude van Damme movies and always said that he was going to watch his movie. I wasn't given an option. After I had loaded the dish washer and cleared up, I went to bed in the early evening and peacefully read my current library book.

Not much worth watching these days apart from the news and we tend to just go on Utube but that is pretty limited,too. Good for music. All of them seem to be biased one way or another.

We used to have the TV in the study at the top of the house.
It meant that you had to make a big decision to watch anything.

When we moved house the study was an odd shape and it didn't work
Once it was in the sitting room it was watched a lot more.

Last year we bought a "big" TV (to us)
It has both a great screen and is terrific for radio - it also makes watching "foreign" things with subtitles much easier. The ones on our old 24" TV were often too small even with my glasses on!

Often we don't watch (or listen to) it though - tonight, for example, we listened to the last 90 mins of a novel (on Borrowbox) whilst we did a puzzle.

Just because you have a TV doesn't meanyou must watch it!

TV/no TV personal choice.
I can’t imagine missing out on all the history or geographical programs, drama, arts and even news, but if you don’t have a TV, you don’t know what you will never see so it won’t bother you.

I didn't have a TV as a child so it was never a habit. We had one when the children were home but I've always been a radio addict. In fact there is so much I want to listen to, I don't think I have time for TV programmes as well,

My neighbour doesn't have one . I rarely watch it, but my husband would happily sit there all day watching.

We don’t watch tv, only YouTube & Netflix- nothing live. Don’t miss regular tv. Just filled our form to state that.