I wondered about you as I knew you were in the area. But, the fact you are not a big TV person could explain things. In Europe AFN (Armed Forces Network) started broadcasting show from the US. I did a lot of construction work and the no. one item was climbing on people's roofs and installing TV antennas. Getting this in our apartment in the old city was a big treat. I know how you feel but there's a lot of good stuff on TV. PBS and even Netflix have a lot to offer and not just for entertainment but knowledge as well.
I can picture that huge TV. My late partner also had such a TV. Since it was the old style cathode ray variety, she named it her 'big Butt' TV. Later, a friend gave us her older flat screen (no butt) which had a larger screen and much better picture. I put it in a cabinet so when not in use it's not seen.
Before we left in 2011 it was still a great place to live. It has changed, though.

@pedigojr I stream PBS on line and am a supporter so I have the Passport option for binge watching shows I like! It is the only subscription I need so far - LOTS of free stuff! Right now I am watching a movie on youtube that I had not seen. It came out in 2012, Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp, I think Tim Burton directs it. Since I loved Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow I thought I'd check it out since it's free.
Do you remember the globe on top of the Seattle-PI building? I worked there in the early 1980s and lived on Capitol Hill. Did my shopping at the Pike Street Market. Yep, those were good times.

@silverotter11 Seems we do have different tastes in shows (I really like the British Crimi series especially when it is about a member of the clergy losing his faith because of being in the real world.
I do remember the Globe even though I first returned in 1989. The PI was my go to paper and, for a while, it was online. I don't know about now. I worked downtown (2 Union Sq.) and spent a lot of time at the market. Things were different then. I just returned for a couple of days, to visit a HS friend who had cancer and was finalizing his Chemo treatment (the cancer is gone and he's slowly getting back to normal. He lives in Arbor Heights (better known as Cardboard Heights). Getting to hie place I had to travel along 35th (where I lived). The roads are terrible. I mentioned to him that not a single road on any of these islands are as bad as 35th Ave. SW. When I went past my old house I was floored (as a good thing) at what I saw. Some of the trees I had planted (including a Palm, Monkey Puzzle and Bay) were enormous.

@pedigojr Sad to here 35th SW is in suchbad shape. I use to travel that route to get to the community center in SW Seattle for pottery. They did have a great community center and the pottery area was fabulous!

@silverotter11 Interesting as I know (or knew) the studio. It had a walk in kiln. My 2nd partner was into ceramics and went there often. The CC also had a pool. I had seen other streets were put on a 'road diet.' This is where 3 or four lanes were turned to two with a center lane for turning. After we left a large portion of 35th Ave SW was made into such a street which lowered the speed and some noise from the street. The speed limit was 25mph but almost no one followed that. The street had gotten into such a sad state of repair I often took another street (Delridge) to avoid it.
Just for fun let me post some photos of my old house. The first one shows the Palm and next to that is a Plum, I also planted and the 2nd shows the Monkey Puzzle tree I planted (it was about 4' then). Just behind that (to the left) s a Eucalyptus and that enormous tree is a Bay Laurel. I had no ideal it could get that big. When I pruned the whole area smelled of Bay. You can see the Palm in the background.

It does but I was a big fan. We first came to Seattle in October of 89 so I missed the part about the Space Needle.