Nothing On TV With 104 Channels

[ThunderWalk]

The average U.S. household gets 104 television channels but the average TV viewer watches a paltry 16, a Nielsen Media Research survey showed.

Those figures are up from an average of 96 channels per home in 2005, when about 15 of them were watched with any degree of regularity, the New York Daily News said Tuesday.


An estimated 47 percent of all U.S. homes with televisions had more than 100 channels, according to the New York researcher.


But as the number of channels increased over the last three years, the number of channels watched remained in the 15-to-16 range, meaning more options didn't necessarily translate into more channels being watched, researchers said.


For comparison, in 1985, the average home got about 19 channels, although Nielsen did not provide a figure on how many channels were watched.


Nielsen estimates about 111.4 million homes have television sets in the United States with each having an average of three sets.



© 2007 UPI

[sagefr0g]

Originally Posted by ThunderWalk

The average U.S. household gets 104 television channels but the average TV viewer watches a paltry 16, a Nielsen Media Research survey showed.

Those figures are up from an average of 96 channels per home in 2005, when about 15 of them were watched with any degree of regularity, the New York Daily News said Tuesday.


An estimated 47 percent of all U.S. homes with televisions had more than 100 channels, according to the New York researcher.


But as the number of channels increased over the last three years, the number of channels watched remained in the 15-to-16 range, meaning more options didn't necessarily translate into more channels being watched, researchers said.


For comparison, in 1985, the average home got about 19 channels, although Nielsen did not provide a figure on how many channels were watched.


Nielsen estimates about 111.4 million homes have television sets in the United States with each having an average of three sets.



© 2007 UPI

yea well we got all these channels and hardly anything worth watching.
whats more the commercials are never ending repeats with barely any entertainent inbetween. eventually people will stop watching tv at all and the whole advertisement crap will collapse... i hope.
geesh we go from three or four free channels to cable that we gotta pay for and nothing worth while to watch and heaps of commercial after commercial.