1. Describe your earliest memories of watching television. What was your favorite show? Which, if any, shows did your family watch together? Were there shows that you were not allowed to watch? Which ones and why?
As a young child, I do not remember watching much television. I grew up watching mainly videos. But I do remember watching Barney in the mornings before my mom and dad took me to preschool, or before I went to the babysitters. I do not remember any shows that we watched as a family, but I assume, since I am a only child, that they watched whatever I watched with me. In our house hold, the only channels that were normally on, were PBS, or the golf channel. Barney was my best friend, well that is what I thought as a child. Like I said, I do not think I watched television that much, but I do remember that I was not aloud to watch Rugrats. To this day I do not like rugrats, and I am not completely sure why I wasn't aloud. But I am pretty sure that it was because of their behavior and how they talked. I do watch a lot more television that I did when I was little, these days, but as people get older that is what happens.
2. How much television to you watch today? Which programs do you try to watch regularly? What attracts you to your favorite program(s)?
Today I watch television a lot of times just to have noise going on, or something for my brain not to think about. I do enjoy watching some shows on ABC family, and my all time favorite America's Funniest home videos. I enjoy watching this show any day when I just need some good laughs, and some thing to be glad that hasn't happened to me. I also watch Secret Life of an American Teenager, and I am not completely sure what grabs my attention with this show, but I think it is just attention grabbing to me. I have a television in my dorm room, but normally the only time that is on, is when we are watching a movie or when we just feel lazy and wish to think about nothing.
3. If you were a network television executive, what changed would you try to make in the programs that American watches?
If I was a network television executive, I am not sure that there are any big things that I would change, but I do think that shows that are on, when children are home should be more censored. Even though channels that children watch have shows that children can watch, but it is easy for them to turn channels and find other shows that are extremely inappropriate. This would be a very hard thing to do, but I think it would necessary to attempt so that we are not exposing children to the harmful things in life, so that we do not have children with anger and wanting to react to how the shows are.
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