Results of switching from satellite/cable to stick(s) Amazon/Roku.

[hunter]

4. Ah, you are like my dad, a TV news junkie.

He still is. Mostly MSNBC and CNN I think

When I was a kid we moved away from the city and couldn't get CBS, not even from the tall antenna on the roof, but there was this new and magical thing called cable.

It was my dad's habit to come home from work, sit down, pop open a beer, and watch Walter Cronkite. It was worth $7.00 a month to him to be able to do that. This was the 'sixties when that was a lot of money.

I later got a job with a local cable company. I was the guy who loaded and supervised the playing of tapes for the premium Movie Channel. If the movie didn't start exactly as scheduled, or something else went wrong with the fussy equipment, or God Forbid a scheduled movie tape wasn't delivered on time, all hell would break loose and the only thing I had to hide behind was a "Please Stand By..." card, elevator music, and a few tapes of old movies in the Public Domain.

When things were going well and I'd finished all the job's other mundane chores, I was getting paid to sit around watching movies.

It was pretty rare for the forces of chaos to be so great that I didn't have time to watch a scheduled movie from start to finish uninterrupted if I wanted to.

Fast forward to the twenty first century...

I read all my "breaking news" on the internet. Best thing about that is I rarely hear Trump's voice.

If I encountered Trump in person I'd slap his face. Slapping Trump on my radio or television or computer would be silly.