Yes, I have noticed some differences between watching TV in Germany and the U.S.!
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So in both Germany and the U.S. people do watch TV!
Hey look at that, starting off with a similarity.
And in both the U.S. and Germany there are restaurants where you can go and watch sports.
But there are already some differences there.
In the U.S. a common thing is the sports bar and restaurant.
This is a bar-restaurant where you can go and watch sports on TV.
And many of these places don’t just have 1 or 2 or 5 or 6 six TVs.
They have lots of TVs.
Lots and lots and lots of TVs.
Like not just a TV in every general direction you look, but TVs on top of TVs on top of TVs.
Not like on top of one another so that you can’t see the one behind it, but stacked
on top of each other like this.
I’ve even been to a place in the U.S. that had little TVs mounted into the individual
bathroom stalls. TVs installed on the inside of each stall door.
I know I'm not a sports person but...really?
Sometimes the TVs in the U.S. sports bar-restaurants are actually showing the same game.
So I have experienced it that I’ve gone to a place that has 20 TVs and 18 of them
are showing all the same thing.
But then also a lot of times the places in the U.S. show several different games and
different kinds of sports on the different TVs.
And in the U.S. a lot of times you might go to a sports bar-restaurant and not actually
watch any sports.
I know that I’ve gone to places in the U.S. many times that show sports but I went there
with my friends simply because I was craving chicken wings or potato skins or whatever,
not because we actually wanted to watch sports.
We just wanted to go to that place because they had good food and drinks.
It wasn't about the sports.
Okay, so now hop on over the ocean to Germany where there are also restaurants where you
can go and watch the game, but it's not super common here to have so many TVs all over the
place in the restaurant.
Actually I myself have never seen a restaurant in Germany with so many TVs like what I've
seen in the U.S.
And I’ve also never been to a restaurant in Germany showing more than one game at a time.
If a restaurant is showing a game here in Germany it’s usually soccer and then that
is usually something that is advertised in advance.
Like it’s a normal restaurant that all the other days of the week is not actually a place
for watching sports, it's just a normal restaurant.
But then on this particular day of the week at a particular time they will be showing
a particular game.
And pretty much everyone who goes there on that day at that time is there to watch that game.
Another difference I’ve noticed is commercial breaks.
But this one is a little bit tricky because it also seems to differ by show,
so what I’m actually watching.
And advertising schedules do change over time, so it definitely could be different now then
when I first moved away from the U.S. 9 years ago.
But my overall feeling with this is that in the U.S. there tend to be more frequent shorter
commercial breaks, whereas in Germany it feels like to me that the commercial breaks happen
less frequently, but then when they do come they seem to be longer.
But I have not done any measurements or timing on that.
That’s just my feeling of it.
As far as the shows on TV go, a lot of the kinds of shows being broadcast seem pretty
similar in both countries to me.
Although I do have three things that I would like to mention here.
Number one: in Germany there are a good number of American TV shows and movies aired here,
and most of the ones that I've seen are with German dubbing.
But I believe that I've also seen one or two shows with just German subtitles instead.
Number two: there is a crime drama show here in Germany called "Tatort," which is really
well known and while I must admit I have not yet watched a single episode of it, I have
heard a lot about it.
And I learned that it's produced in a really cool way.
"Tatort" is filmed in a bunch of different locations with different crews and actors
in different cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
So I think that's a really awesome concept for a show.
And number three: the time that prime time actually begins is a little bit different.
Where I grew up on the East Coast of the U.S. prime time starts at 8 p.m., while in Germany
it starts at 8:15. 8:15 why? Why 8:15?
Because of the "Tagesschau," of course.
The "Tagesschau" is a 15 minute news broadcast that goes from 8:00 to 8:15 and has been airing
like that since the 1950s.
And thus in Germany most prime time shows begin at 8:15.
So my question for you is: Do you watch TV, when and what kind of shows?
And what TV watching differences have you noticed in places around the world?
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And it's, it's...
I haven't seen that here.
Where there were TVs in each door stall...stall door.