How many here watch regular Fox programming while skewering Fox News

[Mike Daniels]

Regular FOX - Simpsons, King of the Hill, Malcolm, sports programming, etc. .

I figure if you're watching regular FOX you're indirectly supporting FOX news since the money goes into the same pocket.

However, I'm cool with it as I enjoy the Sunday programs enough that I don't care about the news factor.

Just curious if anyone here has stopped watching FOX-TV because they end up helping to fund FOX news as well?

[jedicord]

1. No, but I do so with distaste.

Thank GOD Fox is no longer showing Nascar this year!

My husband is a sport fanatic and loves the sports shows, so can't be helped.

[SheilaT]

2. Do you mean

eschewing? Skewing doesn't seem quite like the right word here.

[Mike Daniels]

8. Kinda, I meant to type skewering (as in ripping or condemning)

but I obviously had a brain freeze in the spelling department.

Must correct now.

[southpaw]

3. I wish there were a way to see new Simpsons episodes...

without watching a FOX program...

I simply don't watch the Simpsons anymore...

[quispquake]

4. Usenet

alt.binaries.tv.simpsons

[Dying Eagle]

5. NFC football

can only be seen on FOX. I'm sorry but I live and die for the PACKERS!!

[Philostopher]

6. The Mr. still watches Fox Sports.

It's the only place he can see the Reds play. He grumbles about it occasionally, and it always goes off before the local Dachau Boys' Choir local newscast comes on.

I never really watched anything on Fox but the Simpsons, and frankly I got Simpsons-fatigue several years ago and haven't watched anything on there since. About all we watch anymore is VH-1 Classic, Comedy Central and Cartoon Network. VH-1 and CC are Viacom, who seem to at least have some portion of a spine, and I think Ted Turner has the biggest stake in Cartoon Network. Turner has his problems, but I don't think he's a Neocon enabler.

[cmf]

7. Is there a little chip in my TV telling them that I'm watching?

Otherwise, since we're not a Nielsen family, does it even matter? We watch "24", but we tape it and fast forward through the commercials, so we're not supporting their advertisers. Broadcast TV is free, so I don't see how I'm putting any money into FOX's pockets.

[zbdent]

9. Malcolm, and some football games

That's about the only time I watch a Fox channel any more.

Kinda glad that Malcolm's almost done.

Murdoch's version of Fox was nothing until they outbid NBC & ABC for the NFL.

Actually, if the Browns are on channel 19 in Cleveland, then that's CBS.

I'd prefer to watch the Steelers, but I'm living in Cleveland and married into a bunch of Browns fans.

Oh, and when the wife wants to watch the Cleveland Indians play. It's on the Fox Sports Network channel; they decided to remove baseball from airing on local TV.

[HuckleB]

11. Same thing with the Mariners in the northwest.

No more local TV, just Fox Sports NW, or whatever it's called. I don't have cable, so I don't get to watch, which is fine, as I spend more nights socializing at the AAA ballpark here in town.

[HuckleB]

10. Still watch the Simpsons, That '70s Show and MLB.

Malcom and King of are both over the hill -- I admit that I also often catch our local Fox news sports report (I don't watch TV news for anything else), as it comes on 30 minutes before the other channels, and I like to get my sleep.

I wish I were stronger, but I'm not. But if I were stronger, I wouldn't watch any of the networks, as they all do the GOP's bidding to some extent.