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Do You Watch More or Less TV Than Average?
TV watching in the US is now at an all-time high. According to a new Nielsen survey, the average US household has the TV on for eight hours and 18 minutes each day. That's more than a third of the day!
How Many TV Channels Do You Get?
In case you couldn't tell from your swelling lineup of digital cable options, the number of TV channels the average American household receives just keeps going up. In the latest TV-watching study from Nielsen, a typical US home now gets 119 TV channels, a new high.
That's not to say that all of those channels get watched — in fact, the average household watches only 16 of them!
Good to Know: Entertainment by the Numbers
Nielsen, the company that measures TV ratings, among other things, just released its annual top-ten lists ranking everything from the most-watched TV shows to the most-purchased supermarket goods (bread's a big one). I'm a sucker for entertainment-related factoids, so here are a few nuggets from this year's lists:
- Where in the United States has the most-avid moviegoers? Salt Lake City!
How Many TV Channels Do You Watch?
Behold the wonders of cable: According to a new survey from the Nielsen Research Company, the average U.S. household gets a whopping 104 TV channels. But that doesn't mean people are watching them.
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