On: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

[leereeves]

I found that European TV is a lot drier and more educational than US TV, but I don't know if that's because of interest, regulation, a smaller market (in each language), or ?

[nescioquid → leereeves]

In the U.S. we have no non-commercial media free of commercial influence. Our "public" broadcasting services rely on commercial advertisements.

Is the European programming you're impressed with publicly funded by any chance?

[nonethewiser → leereeves]

Cable TV is hardly relevant at this point. Its about streaming services, social media, and other internet media.

[chihuahua → nonethewiser]

This may be a cliche, but I seriously don't understand why anyone still watches cable TV - it's been unbearable for many years and it's expensive. I sort of understand that some people enjoy sports broadcasts that are only available on cable, but the rest is just unbearable and incomprehensible to me.

[scarface74 → chihuahua]

If you had said “I haven’t watched TV in 20 years. Do people still watch TV?”, that would have been cliche.

But I agree with you. My wife and I are doing thr digital nomad thing traveling across the US staying in hotels. The first thing I do when I arrive is plug in my Roku stick.

[nonethewiser → chihuahua]

Sports and local news I guess

[lzooz → leereeves]

I've only watched European TV but if you say US TV is even worse... it must be like in that movie Idiocracy

[leereeves → lzooz]

Worse. In the next hour, the History Channel has a show about UFOs, the Travel Channel about ghosts, National Geographic about drugs, TLC (formerly The Learning Channel) has a dating show, and about 10 channels have shows about murders.