I have to admit to liking watching!
Like that guy in Being There (Chauncy?), I mean TV, not The Other.
And I generally find ABC1 to be a decent place to start.
But Mondays!
Who would watch a sequence of: Landline Extra, Talking Heads, News, The 7:30 Report, Australian Story, Four Corners, Media Watch, Enough Rope, Lateline, Lateline Business, some shite on 9/11 [what did happen on the 9th of November?] and then ... apotheosis ... Parliament!?
What kind of person could they possibly be aiming at?
Presumably some nationalistic, fact-centred twit.
So on Mondays, I have to go diving over to SBS with forays into ABC2: Top Gear, South Park, Good Game, Death Note, Shameless.
After that, I may flick to the last half of the only decent show on the overt-commercials: 7's Boston Legal.
The latter being worth it if only to see Shatner and Spader's regular mutually onanistic final scene.
If there's time left after that, there's usually some interesting foreign shagging on late night SBS.
OK, I do sometimes like The Other sort of watching -- I mean, if it's ART.
But generally, it's like picking your nose: lots of fun to do but horrible to watch.

So what's the difference between ABC and SBS?
I can think of four important ones:

1. The ABC has lots of really bad Australian content; SBS has almost no Australian content at all.
2. The ABC has boring and over-loud ads for anything even vaguely connected with the ABC; SBS has boring and over-loud ads for anything.
3. SBS has subtitles for everyone who doesn't speak English; ABC has subtitles only for people who do speak English but who happen to be dark skinned.
4. SBS tells you the weather in Casablanca; ABC tells you the weather at Giles Station.

Maybe my trusty readers can think of a few more.
But those seem to be the important ones from where I'm lying.

Sledge