News programs were the most frequently watched television programs. Five people said they recalled their fathers watching sports. Family programming included Walt Disney shows and sitcoms. The distribution and sample comments are shown in Table 15.

Table 15. Television watching behavior
Television watching behavior Number of
responses		 Occupation Comments
Parents watched news regularly 10 0 n=3
B n=3
C n=3
D n=1		 Mom watched different things and Dad watched news and sports.
I saw Mom watching news most every night.
We only had three channels so we watched news every night.
Parents watched sports 5 0 n=4
C n=1		 I saw my parents watching TV every night.
My dad watched sports.
Dad watched sporting events.
Parents watched Disney 2 0 n=1
D n=1		 My parents watched Walt Disney on Sundays.
Everyone would come to watch Wonderful World of Disney.
Parents watched variety 2 0 n=1
B n=1		 I saw Mom watching Ed Sullivan every night.
Both watched TV every night; whatever was on, like sitcoms.