Does anyone still watch live TV?

[PNWRoadgeek]

I personally, don't. Streaming services are just nicer to use in my humble opinion. But live TV was fun.

[JayhawkCO]

Sports. That's it.

[NWI_Irish96]

I watch live news and sports, but I never watch scripted shows live.

[epzik8]

95 percent of what I watch live at this point is NASCAR.

[1995hoo]

Sports, the news, and Jeopardy. With sports and Jeopardy I sometimes watch via the DVR instead of live, especially F1 racing and likely the next few US Women's World Cup games, in both cases due to the time difference. (I got up at 1:45 AM to watch the US play Mexico in the 2002 World Cup, but getting up to watch a 3:00 AM game this coming Tuesday just isn't going to happen. It's a lot easier to get through the workday on short sleep when you're 29 than it is when you're 50.)

With Jeopardy when we watch live I often find myself grabbing the remote to try to fast-forward through the commercials and then when it doesn't work I realize we're watching live.

[jp the roadgeek]

Only for live sports (because it's a minute ahead of streaming), for news, and maybe a game show or two (usually watch Let's Make A Deal and The Price is Right at the office). 

[Max Rockatansky]

Just sports.  My wife is into live parades during the holiday season, so guess those are on in the background.

[Big John]

Yes, but rarely any non-sport network shows.

[SectorZ]

Sports, Jeopardy, almost anything else I personally watch I tend to DVR and watch as mother nature intended, especially on stations I am already paying to watch (looking at you Discovery and your 42 minutes of programming placed into a 68 minute long time slot).

[Hobart]

I don't, mainly because I'd need to get an antenna to do so. I don't stream either. I'm entertained enough between looking for jobs, browsing eBay, and watching free stuff on YouTube, so I don't see the point except maybe to watch like, two shows (which I can probably find... "somewhere else" anyways).

If something bad happens and I really need to tune into the news, I'll get out my radio. I actually listen to live content on that more often than I watch live content on television.

[Rothman]

Other than the Super Bowl and New Year's Eve, not at all.

[elsmere241]

We dropped cable a while back, and found that we didn't miss it much.  I got an antenna for one of our TVs, but can't seem to get it in the right place to pick up Jeopardy.  We have Roku and Fire but don't use them very much.  I did catch the tail end of the Super Bowl, but that's been about it.  I don't really miss TV news either.

[Road Hog]

Local weather coverage, although in July and August it gets rather boring here.

[Bruce]

Sports and the occasional news broadcast, but both are streamed online. I do try to keep up with some TV shows on a weekly basis so that discussions aren't stale by the time I get to them (and hate the binge model), but there's not enough time in the day for that.

[ZLoth]

Football, but mainly that Dallas team and maybe that San Francisco team if it's airing locally.

[bing101]

News and Sports mainly but the rest its streaming.

[vdeane]

Mostly news, but a couple other things as detailed below:
-Local news (News10 at home, News8 when visiting my parents, usually the local ABC affiliate when traveling, but it varies by schedule)
-ABC World News Tonight (or the CBS news when visiting my parents, since Mom prefers that one and News8 is a CBS affiliate)
-ABC's This Week
-Empire State Weekly*
-Young Sheldon
-Ghosts
-Holey Moley**
-The Prank Panel***

*Empire State Weekly is a New York state version of CBS's Meet The Press produced by News10 for air across the state on Nextar's stations serving New York.  That said, the air times are less than convenient for most people outside of the Capital District, as the other stations serving the larger media markets air it really early for some reason (and then there's the Burlington/Plattsburgh station airing it at 11 PM).
**I suspect that ABC has quiet cancelled Holey Moley given that nothing has been announced since season 4 wrapped, but there were rumors that they might shoot season 5 in Australia, so who knows.
***At least now that it's on Thursdays.  I'm busy Sunday at 8, so I was catching it on Hulu those weeks.

[CtrlAltDel]

It depends on what you mean by "live tv." Do you mean a program transmitted more or less at the same time it is being created? Or do you mean a program transmitted only at set scheduled times?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I can't remember the last time I deliberately watched non-sports programming on linear TV at its specific first-run air time.

[ZLoth]

Football, but mainly that Dallas team and maybe that San Francisco team if it's airing locally.

Let me amend my statement... it has been almost two DECADES since I watched "live" television. Pre-streaming, I had Dish Network (2001-2003) and DirecTV (2003-2018), and in both cases, I had a DVR so that I could record programming for later playback and skip over commercials. Part of this was out of necessity as I had returned to college as an older student, thus studies took precedence over the latest episode of whatever show I was interested in. Over the past 15 years, television's importance in my life declined to non-existent because other items became more important such as my career and being an adult caregiver. Five years of being on graveyard shift didn't help. The only televisions in my home is in the master bedroom (which my mother occupies) and in my home office.

As for Dallas football, you can blame my next door neighbor for that and inviting me over to watch the games. But, they passed away at the beginning of the year.

[zachary_amaryllis]

My mother lives for CBS Sunday Morning.

I feel like this show, is like I'm in a room where everyone's laughing, and I don't get the joke. Targeted at people who are wayyyyyy above me.

[NWI_Irish96]

It depends on what you mean by "live tv." Do you mean a program transmitted more or less at the same time it is being created? Or do you mean a program transmitted only at set scheduled times?

Live TV is generally meant as something that is currently being transmitted--the earliest you could possibly watch that program regardless of when it was created.

[MikeTheActuary]

The only things I watch on a linear TV service are the local morning news, the occasional football (real football, aka soccer) game, and I tend to keep business/financial news from one of a couple of sources playing as background noise during the workday.  (If it were just my business news background noise, I would probably say I didn't "watch live TV", considering it streaming, even though it is technically "linear TV".)

We dropped our DirecTV subscription years ago, shifting first to PSVue, and then to YouTubeTV when Vue shut down.  I've maintained the YTTV subscription mostly to keep my wife happy, but her video consumption habits seem finally to be shifting to streaming services.   At some point I'll talk her into agreeing that YTTV can be mostly dropped (although I might come back for a month every couple of years if that were the only way to watch World Cup games).

[NWI_Irish96]

The only things I watch on a linear TV service are the local morning news, the occasional football (real football, aka soccer) game, and I tend to keep business/financial news from one of a couple of sources playing as background noise during the workday.  (If it were just my business news background noise, I would probably say I didn't "watch live TV", considering it streaming, even though it is technically "linear TV".)

We dropped our DirecTV subscription years ago, shifting first to PSVue, and then to YouTubeTV when Vue shut down.  I've maintained the YTTV subscription mostly to keep my wife happy, but her video consumption habits seem finally to be shifting to streaming services.   At some point I'll talk her into agreeing that YTTV can be mostly dropped (although I might come back for a month every couple of years if that were the only way to watch World Cup games).

At a minimum, half of the final group stage games will be on cable, as they are played simultaneously. With 2026 expanding to 48 teams, they might decide to go with more simultaneous (or at least overlapping) games to compress the schedule.

[Takumi]

Yes, but mostly sports.