Go ahead and kill your TV. You will find that you can watch as much as you want via the internet.
I am seven and a half years into my third experiment with no TV. The first was rather short, about two years when I was in my late teens. Then, in my twenties, I did without TV for about seven years. In fact, I only re-acquired TV when I started dating and then living with the man I wound up married to for 25 years.
During that seven year TV-less time, a coworker was intermittently convinced that I'd be totally disconnected from the real world and wouldn't have any idea what was going on out there. So on occasion he'd question me about current events. To his astonishment, every single time I not only knew what was going on, but most of the time I could give him more information about things. For one thing, I read the local newspaper, which at the time was The Washington Post. For another, I read books. And the weekly news magazines.
These days, whenever some breaking news story happens, just go to the internet, google TV stations in that market, and chances are at least one of them will have gone to live streaming. I have watched many stories that way, and I don't feel as if I've missed anything. I will point out that it wasn't until at least six months after Michael Jackson that I learned that all of the networks had gone to wall to wall coverage of his death, as if it were something truly important. All I knew was that that night the Rachel Maddow show never showed up on the MSNBC website. And trust me, missing such coverage will improve your life. All too often I'll see complaints here about too much coverage of something trivial, and I'll suppress posting my smug comments about how I don't put up with that crap.
Trust me, if you kill your TV you won't miss anything.
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