Yannis Koutroupis TV Viewing

Yannis Koutroupis 11/2

In terms of my daily viewing habits, Sunday is different from any other day because football is on. Throughout the course of the week I’ll watch a handful of television shows like George Lopez, Family Guy, The Shield, and the Real World/Road Rules challenge. On Sunday though all those programs are put to the side in order to watch football, unless there is a break in the action like from 6-7 pm when we watched tivoed episodes of Family Guy. Every Sunday a group of buddies of mine get together and bar b q and watch the games. This has become a tradition throughout the years, so nothing was missed on Sunday. The only show unrelated to football that was watched was entourage, and it comes on later at night when most of the action is done.

The only time that something is watched away from the TV is when someone will log on NFL.com to catch highlights of a game that we weren’t watching. There is typically 5-6 games going on at a time early in the afternoon, so after the conclusion of the main game we were focusing on we check out what happened in some of the other ones. It is typically a big group of guys that do this every Sunday, at my friends apartment downtown.

I felt that writing down my TV viewing on this day in particular was not too difficult, because it’s a day where we just watch one thing at a time and focus on that. Sometimes we will flip flop between two different games, but because the two games that were on in the afternoon were so good we stayed with just the two of those throughout. That made the logging process awfully easy. Sundays are my day off, and I spend most of them relaxing in front of the TV, so it was no surprise to me how much was actually watched. I think that these journals are a very good way of being able to track what people watch, although I think that some people who frequently change channels and hop between several things may not fill it out completely accurately due to the work that is required. Some people are just lazy, and would probably leave things out. I know after several hours of watching and logging my TV viewing I would start to omit things I didn’t watch for very long.