Traditional TV 'past the point of no return' as viewership hits record low

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12. I happen to know the exact date we quit "linear" television.

January 27, 2012. It was the finale of Chuck. That was the last broadcast television we watched. We'd quit cable television years before.

I'd quit television news and opinion shortly after 9/11/2001. I couldn't take any more hyperbole, speculation, and propaganda.

My wife was never a fan of television news and opinion. We read most of our news, and listen to some on our local public radio station.

We only watched video cassettes and DVDs for a few years, mostly I found those in thrift stores. Then one of our kids, home from college, set us up with Netflix.

I've entirely lost any tolerance I once had for television commercials so the free streaming services don't interest me. I tried Roku for one movie but that was enough. I deleted the app.

It's ironic that when I was young I wanted to be an electronics engineer, probably in television. Two years into college I changed my major to biology. My mom worked in radio mostly and sometimes in television.

My adult children and their cousins don't pay any attention at all to traditional "linear" television or radio. It simply doesn't exist in their universe. They've never had cable or satellite, their televisions have never been programmed to receive over-the-air broadcasts, and they use their automobile sound systems exclusively as bluetooth speakers for their cell phones.

I'll pay to make commercials go away or I won't watch at all if I can't do that or I don't think it's worth the money.