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Do You Watch More or Less TV Than Average?

BuzzSugar — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:30:06 -0800

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!

Granted, that doesn't mean people are actually watching closely - having the TV on in the background would count toward that total. But still! Eight hours! Not to say I've never done it, but I assume I watch more TV than most people. But I could be wrong, so tell me - how does your TV watching compare to the US average?

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How Many TV Channels Do You Get?

BuzzSugar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:30:50 -0700

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! That said, it seems like every time I turn on the TV, my Comcast service has added another channel or 20 to the lineup. So I'm wondering: How many channels do you have available for surfing?

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Good to Know: Entertainment by the Numbers

BuzzSugar — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:30:00 -0800

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! The Salt Lake area ranked first in the percentage of adults who had been to the movies four or more times in the three months before the survey was conducted. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, El Paso, and the San Francisco Bay Area were next.
By those standards, only 8 percent of US adults qualify as avid moviegoers.
After the Super Bowl and Oscars, the top 10 TV programs of the year were all various installments of American Idol.
Lost and Heroes tied for the TV series that's most commonly timeshifted, or watched on a DVR. Each gained almost 18 percent more viewers than the number who watched the shows live.
Only four TV shows can regularly get more than 10 percent of US residents to tune in at any given time: Idol, Dancing With the Stars, Sunday Night Football, and CSI.
As of Dec. 2, the High School Musical soundtrack was on pace to become the top-selling album of the year, followed by Daughtry, and Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight.
Through Nov. 25, Khaled Hosseini had books ranked at number one and two on the list of best-selling fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns was first, followed by The Kite Runner.

You can check out all the lists, and then let me know: Does anything surprise you about 2007 by the numbers?

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How Many TV Channels Do You Watch?

BuzzSugar — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:00:20 -0700

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. The survey found that the average home actually tunes into just about 15 of those channels each week.

I tried jotting down a list of channels I watch regularly and couldn't even get to 20! What about you? How many of your channels do you actually watch?

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