On kutv 2 news in salt lake city, the anchorman just stated that conference was watched by 600,000 on tv and 200,000 on the internet. OMG. Shouldn't at least 5 million "active" members be watching the drivel?

I know plenty of TBMs who are too lazy to watch it and just read the important stuff in the ensign later. BUT it does sound like numbers are lowering which makes me happy!!

I was laughing about this prior to the weekend, ALL of my wife's "TBM" relatives and siblings BAILED this weekend far away from Utah or anywhere in the corridor, including my former Bishop FIL. And it's what they do EVERY CONFERENCE WEEKEND! They don't want to hear the BS, they show up to church because they are expected to and need to keep up appearances, but when they get the chance to slip away un-noticed, they do exactly that. Its LOL funny.

and watch it later (like when they have insomnia). Actually, I noticed many mormons who use it as an excuse to spend a weekend doing something fun and away from the church.

Saturday afternoon a guy from the stake high council stopped by during afternoon session to return some tools he borrowed from my husband. Not watching conference. Last fall, drove by Bishop Jackwagon's house Saturday a.m. on my way to a friend's house and he was out front mowing his lawn - not watching conference/no visible ear buds on. My LDS guitar teacher always has lessons all day Saturday, even if it's conference weekend. And I've lost all track of how many friend's have admitted they slept through Sunday afternoon session. I do know a lot of guys who go to priesthood though - usually so they can all meet up for dinner afterward and a guy's night out.

I think unless you are rabid TBM, Sunday morning session is the only one people really feel they need to watch.

800,000 viewers, and that includes me (internet). So .o1% of the world is watching. One hundreth of one percent. And many of us are kidding. Rough grain rolling.

I think the vast majority of members see it as a weekend off.

I think that tells you all you need to know about the substance of the talks.

Stake and General Conference meant we finally had time to do something like a picnic in the mountains or a scenic drive, a late and big breakfast.

That statistic is reported at the end of this video: http://kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_906.shtml

Okay, I haven't watched conference in many years, but why should I bother since nothing has really changed? They repeat the same nonsense year after year.

No wonder people tune out. We treated GC as a "vacation from church". My mom hated that phrase, but GC and SC were weekends when we didn't have to go to church.

Nobody can see in your living room whether you are watching conference or sports.

800,000 viewers.... how many people watch the Superbowl? --well over 100 million. Shouldn't the true church of Jesus do at least as well as a football game? With over two billion Christians in the world, 800,000 sounds like a fringe group to me.

My parants have never gone to confrence exept to sing in the smaller ones or conduct the quior but the big ones for evdryone that get televised we never go to and never will I think.

And if you accept 100,000 live attendees in a 23,000 seat conference centre, you may want to divide the other numbers by 4 as well.

That would mean that any given session was listened to by 222,500 members. Impressive...NOT.

Actually I think they are referring to attendee's across all sessions of conference. So 100,000 divided by the number of sessions. I would then gues you would have to do that with the other numbers quoted, divide them by the number of sessions.

In reality, hardly anybody watched.

Hey SCMC, nobody's listening to the leaders anymore - report that!

I had to watch it once when I was 10. forty eight years later they are saying the same things. They recycle their talks, quote each other back and forth. If you've heard it once, it's enough.

It's not like they're going be all prophetic or any thing like unto it.

Maybe that's why we get a non-chalant "that's not doctrine" answer about various issues from members. They have no idea what the brethren teach, because they don't watch General Conference.