Sunday, November 24, 2013

How Much T.V. Do Americans Watch?

By: Peyton Moose
Edited & Published By: Neena Rouhani





This graph above shows the amount of time a week that Americans spend (in hours) watching TV. For the past couple of years, young adults have watched less TV per week. This may be because our generation is digital, therefore most of our news comes from social media; we are constantly being updated by the minute on what is happening in the world. In a matter of seconds the world will be updated by a tweet, status, or picture all sent to our smart phones. Because of our constant updating and tweeting there seems to be less of a young adult demographic watching TV.


Studies have shown that when young adults are watching TV most of them are on a second device with the TV playing in the background, a second device being a smart phone, tablet, or computer. Television shows have now tried to incorporate a second media outlet during their shows to keep ages 18-24 engaged in their show. Most shows now have a time where you can send in tweets that could end up on the show, producers have also created exclusives during a show to enhance the audiences viewing through their second device.  Television has now a bigger problem than having an audience tune in, now they struggle to keep them from tuning out.  

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