National Turn-off T.V. Week

April 28, 2005

Category: News

The week of April 25-May 1 is the week to turn off your T.V. and do something else.

From tvturnoff.org
The national kick-off event took place at Arlington Traditional School, a public elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, where the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports joined representatives from Kaiser Permanente and TV-Turnoff Network to encourage students to break free of TV.

Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds
A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using “new media” like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with “old” media like TV, print and music. Instead, because of the amount of time they spend using more than one medium at a time (for example, going online while watching TV), they’re managing to pack increasing amounts of media content into the same amount of time each day.

Posted by pablohart on April 28, 2005 01:02 PM

Comments

perfect! we got rid of our cable service this week and didn't even know we were celebrating an event!

Posted by Nathan Hart at April 28, 2005 1:51 PM

yeah, who needs cable when the good shows are on "regular" tv (alias, scrubs, the office). we did break the fast to watch alias last night. otherwise no boob tube. maybe this will last longer than a week! dare we hope?!

Posted by moe at April 28, 2005 2:04 PM

Funny, I didn't see any commercials for National Turn-Off TV Week. ;^)

Posted by Michael at April 29, 2005 3:25 AM

Further proof I need to listen to what I'm being "told" and shut off the cable.

Funny comment by Michael.

Posted by Lynell at April 29, 2005 5:00 PM

I've been living without cable for over a year now and love it! The things on tv can be so violent and there are so many commercials. I don't miss any of it. I spend time with friends, family, pets, and books.

Posted by Debbie at May 4, 2005 1:17 PM

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