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TV Ownership Falls in the US

By on May 5, 2011 in Ideas

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For the first time in 20 years, the number of homes in the United States with television sets has dropped.

The Nielsen Company, which takes TV set ownership into account when it produces ratings, will tell television networks and advertisers on Tuesday that 96.7 percent of American households now own sets, down from 98.9 percent previously.

We haven’t gone TV-less, yet, but we do have fewer televisions our home than we had in our house when I was a kid. Our kids never watch real television, they only watch Netflix or DVDs that we’ve ripped specifically for them.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    The trend doesn’t surprise me much. People are moving to computer based movies or television. If someone doesn’t mind sitting at a computer or bringing their computer to them for watching, they don’t need a TV to do it anymore. I just don’t think TVs will drop too drastically. After all, there will still be people (like me) who prefer their TV stuff on a TV — even if it is getting there through an Internet connection and not cable/satellite.

    I agree, Netflix is great for kid stuff. Saturday morning cartoons no longer require a Saturday.

  • http://n.a. Cindy Hawkins

    You know, its funny. I had some rhubarb about five years ago, with Time Warner NY cable. I kept getting a ‘blip blip’ across my screen. They arrogantly insisted that the ‘reception problem’ was due to my set, when in fact they’d rewired the house unsuccessfully – twice. So, to give them the benefit of the doubt I actually went out and bought another set. Surprise!! Within ten seconds of connecting it, the blip, and problem were still there. So, I disconnected everything, took the brand new television and gave it to my sister, paid off my bill, returning the cable equipment to TW. My husband and I have no television at all, and NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED TO US. We read newspapers and magazines, listen to news on the radio and consider ourselves pretty well informed, current events-wise. We’ll watch movies on the Net, as Angela points out, often a perfectly fine solution. And when we simply must catch a particular tv show, we’ll go to our local fave restaurant and watch, while we enjoy a snack – they seem to have their television on 24/7!!