When Mr. A and I bought this house, there was an enormous cable package delivered by clunky boxes on each of the 12 or so televisions, plus a massive satellite dish on the roof because the husband is a British ex-pat and wanted to watch Tottenham Hotspurs. As I mentioned, the couple were both media people, so the plugged-in household made sense.
My parents were big TV watchers and now that they're both 86, I would describe theirs as a "constant TV household." Constant TV at an extremely loud volume.
I went to college in 1982 and never owned a TV until 1989, when I married someone who watched A LOT of TV (and lived in Florida, where there was cable. Philadelphia, where I had lived, did not have cable until the early '90s.)