Same situation here, a friend used to live in the basement and moved home a few months ago leaving a nice flat screen and a playstation. Through the playstation I can get to my netflix account as well as hulu and amazon. Yes, I'm a TV junkie for the last couple of years, its nice to zone out sometimes.
Scanner gets Fire / Ambulance mutual aid dispatch , local and state police , state and local highways , game wardens , ops at both local Ski areas , county sherrifs , Power Co. , even traffic control when Tree or Paving Companies are close. Have some tactical channels but usually pretty distorted ... Good for insomnia , gotta learn the lingo. Some calls are exciting , some disturbing , some actually funny.
Sherrifs are generally boring yes. Big weather events are prob the best. Portable w plug and rechargeable batteries. When my little town got smashed by Hurricane Irene I had interesting perspective. Land line still worked though scanner was on throwaway batteries had an idea what was up. Buddy on Fire was keeping me posted plus GF on Ambulance as well. Not a good day for Wilmington when the National Guard is in charge and the Governor Heli's in ...
Aussie free to air TV is pretty good...none of those interminable medical ads of the US, and the car ads are pretty good.
SBS, ABC (Australian) Channel 7 and all their ffiliates, 9 and theirs...good range of offerings.
Not me. I can barely stomach listening to the news. IMO watching it would be bad for stress levels. Sometimes I skip even the radio news. News, depressing and stressful. Let's commit to watching it a few times a day! Most news I miss never affects me anyways. Am I worse off or better off for never having known about it?
Maybe for you and a select few others. But for most, viewing a never ending stream of disaster is detrimental to a peaceful and calm state of mind. For many, stress can eat at them without the person ever really identifying it or the cause of it. But feelings of anxiety and dread while lying in bed waiting for sleep would be one sure sign.
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