Pretty simple question. I know viewing habits have changed over the last 20+ years. But, curious to know that nowadays do any of you guys watch live television? Like live as it's airing in a certain day/timeslot. Like in the olden days. Or have you completely abandoned that?

For me, it's just live sports and news these days. 90% of scripted shows these days that air on broadcast TV and cable can be watched on delay. And I usually watch them that way. Even appointment TV right now like Last of Us, I watch on HBO Max about an hour after it drops. There's no rush.

I watch The Simpsons on TV because for the past few years it has aired with NO logo bug. Matt Groening has always hated that practice, back when it started I sent a letter to the Fox network and got a thank you letter back from The Simpsons staff. There are still too many commercials of course, but they’re somewhat amusing just once a week.

I check the live news every now and then if it’s on or if something big is going on. Never cared about sports. Since I got an HDTV, I’ve made a weekly run once a week through every channel just to see what’s coming in (depending on the weather I get some from out of town) and to see if any sub-channels have been added or changed. I enjoy catching any on-air screwups also, of which there are many these days. Decades ago I wanted to run a station’s master control, I’ve heard most of that is automated now and sometimes even done several states away.

sports, news, Seinfeld, all live.

Just sports really.

Assuming we are talking about being at home, only sports. I have zero reason to watch something live otherwise.

I do watch VSiN on MASN regularly in the morning for Follow the Money but I sometimes have to catch up on the DVR for that.

edit: you should have divided sports separately because to me there is no such thing as a 'must see' show. Unless you are twitter obsessed.

Sports and news. Every now and then if I can't decide on what to stream or play, I'll turn on live TV as sort of a lottery pick!

No

NFL games especially primetime games I watch on delay.

Maybe the Sun 10am and 1pm or 1:25pm games I watch live though I am maybe behind 10 minutes for the 10am games after taking a shower and getting ready but catch up after a couple of commercial breaks,

Nothing, except maybe the Super Bowl and the Oscars. Maybe.

Mostly SNL, sometimes late night talk shows or awards shows (my wife likes them). That's about it, old school style OTA with an antenna on our roof.

this you?

Scripted content? 99% of the time I'm watching it off the DVR recording. Live sports and the like? I just watched the men's final of the Australian Open live but other than that, most sports I watch these days is off the DVR. Does make it difficult avoiding scores and such.

Sports and award shows. And sometimes SNL.

Some Sunday night HBO I watch pretty close to when it drops, but I still am streaming it.

Well, what I do does not fit any of the options. Except for local news and SNL, which is coming on in 10 minutes, I don't watch any new TV live.

What I watch live is reruns. MeTV, LAFF, Decades. I still like to be able to turn on the TV and "watch shows" without it requiring more than half of my attention, and I can do that with reruns. I can jump in and out of old sitcoms at any point and always be okay with what I am looking at.

The last thing I watched as it aired on TV was Grimm and it ended in 2017.

Only on non-commercial channels. Everything else is on delay. Sometimes just DVR'd for when I feel like watching it, or until I know there's enough of a delay to skip all commercials.

Not since ~2005. I've never watched sports (just don't like any of it) or live news. I worked in broadcast TV for 21 years as a director and directed more news than I ever wanted to ever see. Since leaving that profession I've rarely turned on a TV to watch news, getting the majority from the local newspaper and carefully vetted (aka legit and as non-biased as possible primary news source) web sites. Even then I typically spend less than 10 minutes a day on "hard news."

I got fed up with "live TV" in the era of the "Reality Show," reduced my viewing accordingly, and as the few programs I liked were slowly cancelled I didn't look for new ones to fill the gap as DVDs were taking off and I just switched to that source for my video entertainment needs. By ~2005 I'd gotten fed up with the declining quality, increased commercial load, and the constant on-screen junk (bugs, promos, etc.) so disconnected my TV from cable and never looked back. These days I'll find a way to stream (for free) something that sounds interesting or gets good buzz to *sample* and if I like it enough just wait for it to come out on disc, purchase, and watch that way. I do not subscribe to any streaming services outside of "Prime Video" as that comes "free" with Prime - and I rarely watch things there as I have so much material on disc that I just don't think about it as a source (plus the interface is horrible - like all streaming interfaces I've ever seen).

I don't willingly choose to watch anything live. I do get subjected to it when visiting people sometimes, and the commercials really irritate me.

The only things I watch live is NFL games and repeats of some sitcoms (ie. Sunny in Philly, B99, etc) that I have in the background while browsing the internet.

Just sports and news

Like others, I watch sports and news live, though I admit it can be torture watching a random football game with commercials since I'm sooo used to Redzone.

Last year I watched American Idol with my kids, mainly for nostalgia purposes, and quickly learned that if you want to vote you have to watch live because the window to vote is tiny. Which sucks because then you have to watch at East Coast times or they move things around with little warning, so I gave up halfway through.

The only "LIVE" tv I watch is PlutoTV on Roku. I also haven't watched Live News regularly in years. Most Films and TV shows i watch are streamed from providers. i.e. HBOMax,Hulu, Paramount+, etc...

Sports or Wheel of Fortune. That’s it.

Occasional weather or breaking news; my wife watches sportsball live; and Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy occasionally.
Everything else, DVR or streaming.

Now I'm curious why you guys watch stuff like Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy live. Just because it's on? I usually dvr it for my kids and it's so much better not having commercials...

Yes, basically just because it's on
I don't DVR them because I don't care that much, but if we get done with dinner at the right time we'll watch them (or usually just a part of the episode) before we turn to the actual show we're focusing on watching via streaming or VUDU.
I usually prefer to watch even just a few minutes delayed so as to FF through the commercials. But we like making fun of the commercials sometimes....