[speaker001:] hello hello my name is uh Donna Donahue and I'm calling from Plano Texas
[speaker002:] yes how you doing did you uh press one
[speaker001:] hi yes I did
[speaker002:] oh guess we ought to get started I'm Phil
[speaker001:] okay um let's see um I enjoy watching the Today Show early in the morning with my first cup of coffee because everyone is still sleeping I have three children and I enjoy watching the news because I probably don't have as much time as I'd like to read sit and read the paper um what about yourself
[speaker002:] I like uh I would like probably like I think I like the Today Show on the rare occasions I get to watch it I uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh first one comes to mind uh without a lot of thought is uh Thirty Something which course is not on the air any more unfortunately it was one of my favorite shows
[speaker001:] um right I yeah I enjoyed that too I guess too also that was a nice one because it was at a time when the kids are already in bed um I
[speaker002:] uh yeah and I was gonna say uh I'll Fly Away which uh I think it was supposed to uh catch some of the same viewers as uh
[speaker001:] uh I haven't had a chance to
[speaker002:] we've been trying to watch that it's uh not quite as good I guess you got to get into it
[speaker001:] uh-huh is it isn't it it set in a different era is it um was was it the fifties in the fifties or in in the sixties
[speaker002:] yeah it's uh it's about uh the civil rights struggle in the fifties
[speaker001:] okay I didn't I've I've seen the commercials for it but it's not uh seem to be on at a good time for me I try to stay away from horror movies I just dislike them totally
[speaker002:] totally agree
[speaker001:] yeah I I don't um uh one
[speaker002:] well I say violence and horror I just kind of lump them together
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's that's that's right and um with young kids in the house we just really try to screen a lot of the things that they they watch um we watch a lot of Sesame Street and a lot of PBS and the uh Discover channel or Lifetime
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah that's fantastic isn't it that Discovery Channel it's
[speaker001:] yes it is it is it is wonderful and especially my eleven year old is just fascinated by some of the the things they have on there um what else I my husband enjoys watching a lot of sports which I really um don't particularly enjoy but they're they're on you know I tolerate it
[speaker002:] well I uh I like watching the Oilers and the uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] that's about it I guess I'll watch that's about the only sports I really like to get into on TV
[speaker001:] okay and um what else is there's a lot of things that I just can't believe is even on TV you watch it for two minutes and think this is so ridiculously stupid
[speaker002:] yeah well one of the good things is having cable they uh they uh now uh you know the choices are so so good and so uh variety variety there that you can really
[speaker001:] you you can change it you know what is a good station too we uh subscribe to the Disney Channel
[speaker002:] oh yeah I think if my kids were small small again we'd probably would too but uh
[speaker001:] yeah it's it's a really nice and it they have um you know movies that sometimes we'll sit and enjoy and it's it's really a very nice uh that was we dropped um HBO because there was just never anything appropriate on for the kids and now with renting videos so readily I mean you can just rent it if you really want to see it that badly
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] but
[speaker002:] uh it's kind of a toss up there whether the inconvenience of renting the video versus uh there never seemed to be anything good on when we wanna watch it you know
[speaker001:] that's right and then and then they repeat everything so often too and or if it's on at ten at night well I I'm asleep by ten at night I don't think I could stay up that late any more um not to start a movie anyway
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well that's true and uh then course they have the Pay-Per-View but our our channel uh system here in Houston is uh is not noted for being the greatest you know I think we kind of got the short end of the stick when uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] programming came around so
[speaker001:] I see I see
[speaker002:] they charge a lot that's four dollars and a half or something like that per per view it seems a little high
[speaker001:] yeah it that does that does seem high but um what other there's a I guess one or two sitcoms and the kids of course like to watch that new dinosaur show that's uh which is pretty silly but but they
[speaker002:] oh yeah we used to watch uh when my kids would watch when the teenage kids would watch that uh Bart Simpson that was pretty good
[speaker001:] yeah yeah once in a while Bryan watch that but that is more for an older kid than than the younger ones
[speaker002:] yeah they were teenagers huh
[speaker001:] you know so that that seems okay for them
[speaker002:] I I like Roseanne that's uh Coach
[speaker001:] I do too I had to try to tell my kids that you know we don't really talk to each other like that I hope we don't anyway to make sure they don't think well gee mom
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] look what their kid just said said well but um and and the kids like to watch that Doogie Howsner but that even that sometimes I have to shut it off and say and say it's an adult theme we don't need to watch that tonight we'll we'll get out the Clue game or
[speaker002:] yeah huh-uh
[speaker001:] or I'll suffer Parcheesi or something with them
[speaker002:] at least you're exercising a little control