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** Also done in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' when Jonas Quinn, who's from a slightly less advanced civilization on another world, finds the Weather Channel fascinating and can watch it for hours.
** The Weather Channel and similar things being used like this is pretty commonly used as a form of "white noise" for insomniacs needing something to lull them to sleep/block out other noises so they can sleep (e.g. predictable, low-level, boring noise as opposed to, say, the news or a barking infomercial or a loud movie or concert) and by people who need distracting noise blocked out so they can concentrate but don't need the noise itself becoming a distraction (writers, artists, etc)
* Webcams and streaming feeds of entirely boring things - road junctions, the sea, [[wikipedia:Trojan Room coffee pot|a coffee pot]] - can become remarkably popular. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110909041913/http://www.mitchclem.com/rockcity/index.php?comic=78 This Mitch Clem strip] explores the idea.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd9CxIlkjpk 11 minutes of paint drying.] Just paint drying. As of this entry, it has almost a hundred thousand likes.
* Many people, especially in the United Kingdom, have an interest in the non-program parts of television: test cards, fault announcements, etc. See [http://www.transdiffusion.org/ Transdiffusion] and its affiliate sites.
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