I don't have a TV, in 1958 I started stopping at a bar on my way home where everyone watched Amos 'n Andy and laughed hilariously, I bought 4 bottles of beer at $1 a bottle, I soon figured that $5 a week for beer was a big dent in a carpenter's $103 a week take home and I'd never save up the money to become a contractor, so one Saturday we went to Sears Roebuck & Company and I spent $65 for a TV. A couple of years later I took the wife and 2-year-old kid to a supermarket one weekend, as I was perusing the pickles, olives, and other men food I heard some horrible screaming and recognized my son's voice, I took off through the aisles and found my wife with the kid sitting in the grocery cart screaming his lungs out, I asked the wife what he was saying, she said: "I want my Maypo", I asked what Maypo was and she said: "A chocolate sugared cereal and it's not good for him so I won't buy it". I asked: "Where did he find out about it?" She said: "TV". I thought Marshall McLuhan was right, TV is being used to brainwash people, so I threw it in my pickup taking it to the jobsite the next day and threw it in the dump pile.
In 1989 I joined a gym in the basement of a high-rise office building, they had several TVs but no cable connection so somebody prerecorded MTV and they played it on VCS, the shear idiocy of all that screaming and plunking guitars was unbearable, I had to drop out.
It's interesting that I avoided the indoctrination of TV yet have become addicted to computers, two of the smartest guys I know have neither a TV nor a computer in their homes, my best buddy in college is a retired mathematics professor, another writes formula for roof cutting etc., he is a Javascript expert, both of these guys walk down to the public library when they want to use a computer rather than junk up their homes with them and their associated noise.
Maybe 35 years ago there was a campaign to "Kill your TV", whatever happened to that? Yesterday I cancelled my newspaper subscription, I'm wasting what's left of my life reading the newspaper and sitting at this computer.