[andirk]

I wonder what "watch television" means these days. I don't know many people who have broadcast or cable TV.

[blacksmith_tb]

Trending down slowly, but still 40% of US households:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/612660/paid-services-bro...

[ilyt]

Basically "old people"

https://www.statista.com/statistics/659779/cable-tv-penetrat...

[andirk]

What is historically the highest % of US households with TV?

(Paywall. And that is the most aggressive form I've ever battled.)

[blacksmith_tb]

Hmm, I guess my mass of adblocking extensions in FF must work pretty well, I had to dismiss a single modal. But it looks like Peak TV was reached by about 1980[1], 98% of households!

1: https://www.americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/136

[uni_rule]

I am still surprised how relatively few people have a set of rabbit ears wired to their "streaming" TVs for basic news or whatever in the current year considering how cheap they are.

[andirk]

Those ears need to be HD-capable or whatever the term is. And I need to get those HD rabbit ears so I can watch sports on broadcast tele instead of choppy rando streams.

[IIsi50MHz]

False. The broadcast waveform remains analogue. The receiving electronics (not the antenna) need to be DTV-capable to correctly interpret digital content of the received waveform.

[mechanical_bear]

My streaming box and smart tv have local channels on them, gratis.

[StanislavPetrov]

It seems reasonable to include things like FUBO, which offer both broadcast and TV channels.