When I go back and think about the years I spent working in radio, and then I got out of radio and have scarcely listened to radio since then. Occasionally NPR, but even then, maybe once or twice a year if it’s an interview or a feature that I’m aware of in advance.
The same really seems to be happening to me with TV now. I still watch stuff, and I have a few “appointment” shows that I keep up with (Galactica, Lost, etc.), but by and large, the TV stays off now, at least in my game room. I might occasionally watch some TV with the Mrs., but generally if we do (like the all-night Torchwood marathon this weekend), it’s something on DVD.
This is not the point where I get all snooty and say that TV doesn’t have anything to offer anyone anymore, because I don’t buy that. Just saying that I’m kinda liking this whole business of not having to have Wife Swap on the TV behind me, or The Bachelor, or what have you. I’ll admit that I’ve gotten a little unplugged from the local news too, which I’ll probably need to get back into later, but right now, it’s kinda like I’m in detox where that’s concerned.
I hear things aren’t exactly going swimmingly at the ol’ TV station.
Man.
Awful sorry to hear about that.
I’m wondering what to do with my work blog, since not everything I’m doing right now, either full-time or freelance, lends itself to that format. I may have some freelance video production work to show off in there soon, but updates will probably start to be very few and far between. Actually, given the restrictions, pressure and other factors that I was working under for the last year or so that I was at the TV station, updates there had already tailed off, since I just wasn’t being given the opportunity to produce a lot of work where I was happy enough with it to show it off. The last really “heavy” stream of updates had been in November sweeps 2005, where I was practically flying solo. And that is very telling.
