The Watergate hearings were on T.V. in the afternoon

[orangecrush]

They started around 3 p.m. when I got home from high school, as I remember it.

The repugs are making sure these hearings are on at 10 a m. while everyone is at work.

Or am I wrong?

Does anyone know how the time was arrived at?

[zonkers]

1. Does it matter with the internet?

[Jonny Appleseed]

9. Yes because as soon as they end they enter the spin-zone

and the viewer no longer makes their own opinion based on raw footage.

[zonkers]

12. Ahh. Of course.

[orangecrush]

17. Great point! n/t

[monmouth4]

2. Those were the days when I used to watch Soaps but became so invested in Watergate,

it just didn't matter. Many were quite angry..LOL. I so disliked Nixon.

[JenniferJuniper]

3. I was wondering the same thing. I can still hear my mother

after I returned home from school in the fifth grade. "You can watch Watergate for an hour, but then you need to start your homework".

I think these fuckers would like to start at 2 am if they could get away with it.

[orangecrush]

16. My thoughts exactly

But that may change if this snowball keeps rolling.

[yallerdawg]

4. Those were different times!

There were only three channels - captive audience - and personal computers were only seen on "Star Trek!"

Today, we can watch the entire hearing whenever and wherever we want!

[HipChick]

5. With today's technology, though, I suspect the hearings can

viewed via smart device, computer,phone etc....all TV's at work were tuned into the hearing today...would have been hard to miss...However, I am a nerd -does technology make a difference? or are the masses TV heads..?

[orangecrush]

15. Older people

Such as myself (59) are more inclined to teevee.

And my age group were the main ones who swallowed Trumps b.s., they need to see this.

[HipChick]

18. I can't keep my mother off Facebook or Twitter..

She's 80....
but agree on that age group..

[Atman]

6. Look at your hours...

I watched the Watergate hearings, but I was a kid. A very involved, political son of activist parents. But who really can watch this stuff at 10:00 am or 3:00pm? People sitting in the waiting room of the doctors office or Jiffy Lube.

TV was a lot more "special" during the Nixon years. By that, I don't mean it was better, it's just that there were only a few channels, and during the daytime most were taken up by old-school soap operas. Today, people have a million choices of what to watch. Anybody who is interested can watch the hearings live. While I fondly recall the days of sitting in a burger joint or a Friendly's with the tv blaring Nixon hearings, that's another era. If you're at a Friendly's now, you can watch the hearings on your iPhone. Time doesn't mean anything.

[The Blue Flower]

7. I watched the Watergate hearings

This hearing had very much the same gravitas and suggestion of impending catastrophe for the administration.

[orangecrush]

14. I was 17

Going on 18.

It was a formative experience.

[jehop61]

10. I remember

them during the day, as well. Best thing about being home with three babies whilr hubby worked and went to college.

[onenote]

11. The timing varied

There were the Senate Watergate hearings that began in May 1973 (almost a year after the break-in) and there were the House Impeachment hearings (which began in May 1974, after 7 months of exhaustive investigative efforts).

The opening of the Senate hearings occurred on May 17, 1973 at 10 am. EST, although other hearings occurred in the afternoon.

Today's hearing is not really comparable to the hearings that occurred in 1973 and 1974.

[orangecrush]

13. Translation...

Pull up a comfy chair and make the popcorn.

This may be long, delicious hours of agony for Benedict Donald.