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TV Shows are not given a chance these days if they don't get instant American Idol ratings, so why bother investing in a show? I think the last new show that I stuck through from beginning to end was Star Trek Voyager. After that, the reality TV craze hit, Millionaire copy cat game shows emerged, and I pretty much gave up on TV. | |
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00000 | Re: There are new episodes My problem is I HATE reality TV and when you have what are IMO great shows like Battlestar Galactica (very expensive show to produce) getting about the same ratings as Jon and Kate Plus 8 you know quality television is doomed. | |
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1 edit | This is nuts... I had read 151 hours a week... per month makes more sense!
I suppose these stats are only true during the American Idol season... 30million viewers twice a week? | |
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4 edits | Re: This is nuts... said by TigerLord:I had read 151 hours a week... per month makes more sense! I suppose these stats are only true during the American Idol season... 30million viewers twice a week? Even at 151 hrs per month, that is still about 5 hours every day. I wonder if they measure when the TV is on and no one is actually watching it? I often have the TV on but have left the room or have gone outside to do something.
Says Nielsen on methods:
The TV and Internet figures in this report are calculated using Nielsen’s National TV and Internet panels, which are measured electronically and reported on a regular basis.
FOOTNOTES FOR CHARTS ABOVE:
° TV in the Home includes those viewing at least one minute within the measurement period. This includes Live viewing plus any playback within 7 day;
Timeshifted TV is playback primarily on a DVR but including playback on services like Start Over as well as playback from a DVD recorder. Measurement period is based on a 3 month quarter.
Their methods would seem to over-estimate the time watched.
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| said by TigerLord:I had read 151 hours a week... per month makes more sense! I suppose these stats are only true during the American Idol season... 30million viewers twice a week? These are not average statistic but the max that some watch. some of us do not watch at all so lets average that to 75 hours a month  | |
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kudos:2 | Hard time.. I have a very hard time watching shows on TV because after I get into it, the network goes and just cancels it. No ending, nothing. | |
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| Re: Hard time.. 151 hours divided by 4 equals 37.75 hrs a weeks
If the average american would use these extra time to do something productive we would all have faster connection by now preferably fiber 100mbps, minimum speed 50mbps.
No wonder the broadband isn't improving much after year 2000 | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Hard time.. said by jadebangle:151 hours divided by 4 equals 37.75 hrs a weeks If the average american would use these extra time to do something productive we would all have faster connection by now preferably fiber 100mbps, minimum speed 50mbps. No wonder the broadband isn't improving much after year 2000 there are 4.3 weeks in a month not 4. 4X7=28 and only February has 28 days. So actually people watch 34.85 hours of TV a week not 37.75. ( 151 X 12 )/52 | |
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I'll never forgive HBO for what they did to "Deadwood".... no ending whatsoever.
Loved "Jericho"... CBS canceled it. At least it got some sort of ending. But "Moonlight" didn't, and neither did "Pushing Daisies" on ABC.
And they just put on more moronic reality shows.
What's the point of tv anymore? 20 minutes of every hour is commercials. I'd rather just watch stuff online. Far less commercials and at least the show is in the proper aspect ratio- unlike the center cut cropped garbage I get now from most of my cable stations... :-( | |
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1 edit | Defined? "defined as watching video on a PC or laptop"
So those of us watching on bigscreen TVs with a PC attached are defined as a PC or TV? The lines between a mythTV PC(PVR), Tivo, and a DVR are pretty murky.(Tivo is just a custom pc running a custom linux OS) It also seems to leave the Tivo, DirectTV(amongst others) downloadable content in a similar position. | |
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| Re: Tell me... said by mod_wastrel:does watching not even a tenth that much make my viewing consumption less than average? or, in a better sense, better than average? (Well, I feel better for having watched so little.) The real question is, do we consume TV? or does TV consume us? I know that many who work don't watch much at all they must be talking about the unemployed who has too much freetime  | |
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| said by Caddyroger:said by jadebangle:said by mod_wastrel:does watching not even a tenth that much make my viewing consumption less than average? or, in a better sense, better than average? (Well, I feel better for having watched so little.) The real question is, do we consume TV? or does TV consume us? I know that many who work don't watch much at all they must be talking about the unemployed who has too much freetime Hey what about retired people who don't have to work any more. As you get older you watch less and less
The kids watch the most, nearly as much as they spent in school. 151 hours a month is only true for children but for adults its actually much less say 20-40hrs a month
How many of us have time to watch more then a couple of hour of tv after we are done with work? Most teen who have a part time job watch a little more say 60-80 hours a month
TV is no way to live your life. Its an addiction like gambling, cigarette, beer, video games
Life is either too boring or dull for some to watch that much television. I have better things to do, I have a hobby. | |
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CWCville USA | Re: Tell me... said by jadebangle:As you get older you watch less and less The kids watch the most, nearly as much as they spent in school. 151 hours a month is only true for children but for adults its actually much less say 20-40hrs a month You're mis-interpreting the statistics;
It's not that when we turn 80, we'll automatically hate tv. It's that people who are 80 years old now never watched that much tv when they were younger. Even the people who are now 30-40 grew up in a time when most people only had 8 channels, and none of them were even broadcasting between 10PM and 7 AM. Of course those generations wont be as used to watching hours and hours of TV. | |
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CWCville USA | Re: Tell me... said by mod_wastrel:(Studies have shown that watching TV for extended periods has pretty much the same effect on the brain as many mind-altering drugs.) Studies have shown that 99% of people who quote unnamed "studies" are lying or grossly exaggerating. | |
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The real point is, however, that too many people watch too much television for no better reason than they'd rather sit there and watch flashing images and listen to the accompanying sounds because it keeps them from doing anything actually worthwhile with their time, and that's the way they like it... their life... none of my business. | |
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CWCville USA | Re: Tell me... said by mod_wastrel:that's the way they like it... their life... none of my business. Also, it keeps them off our internets, so it cant be all that bad! | |
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Stepford, CA | Why is this surprising Each day brings 12 year lows on the Dow, plus week after week there are mass layoffs. Unemployment is a happy shiny, above all, seasonally adjusted rate of 7%, but the reality is that given the economy is in the toilet and 2/3rds on the way to the sewer, the UI rate is probably closer to 25%, if not higher. My point is, with all these mass layoffs, of course people are watching more TV. They can't afford to do much of anything else these days!
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| Re: It IS cheaper than the movies I'm not even sure what night some of the TV shows I watch are on. I stopped watching most TV shows on the night they air back in 1984 when I started time shifting my TV watching. By not watching any commercials it saves around 15 to 18 minutes each hour.
said by ramsfansam:And my daughter won't disturb other people with her incessant talking. Seriously, she thinks that if she stops talking something bad will happen. Besides, we have the week all figured out: Mondays, House; Tuesday, NCIS; Wednesday, Criminal Minds; Thursday, Bones and CSI; Fridays used to be Stargate, but now it is "Ancient Re-run Night", the night we put on old episodes of Adam-12, Bewitched, etc. Saturdays are "Family Night", and Sundays are just what God intended - FOOTBALL! (At least in season) | |
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CWCville USA | said by ramsfansam:she thinks that if she stops talking something bad will happen. I have an easy fix for that, tell her if she DOESN'T stop talking, something bad will happen, and wave your fist at her. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: maybe i dunno they SHOULD said by chronoss2009:get off there fat butts and pay back the debt they owe , hten they can watch all they want. We ought to cut them off totally until they pay back there debts if you don't have a job and you can't get a job how do you do that? just because Burger King hasn't laid you off yet doesn't mean otehr people are lazy. | |
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| 5 Hours a Day?! Is that right??
(151 * 12) / 365.26 = About 4.96 Hours/Day.
I would really question how this study was conducted. Who was asked?
Were the people asked what video delivery method they used? How about those who don't watch TV at all?
Because if the figure of five hours is correct, then where to people find that time??
What I find curious, is that this is the first time I heard of a study that tries to measure how long each person actually watches television.
Before, I did hear of a study that suggests that a TV is on 9 hours a day in a typical American household. But that actually makes sense. Imagine this:
- Kid gets back from school, and turns on the TV.
- TV remains on until the last person goes to sleep.
- TV remains on while the people do other things.
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1 edit | Re: 5 Hours a Day?! Where do they find 5 hours a day of programming worth watching?
Our TV watching is more around 1 hour per week. Except when Dancing With The Stars is on.
At 151 hours per month, that's 37.75 hours of commercials per month. And since every commercial is shown over and over and over and over and over and over again, probably 1 hour's worth of unique commercials.
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Camden, TN | said by benc:Is that right?? (151 * 12) / 365.26 = About 4.96 Hours/Day. I would really question how this study was conducted. Who was asked? Were the people asked what video delivery method they used? How about those who don't watch TV at all? Because if the figure of five hours is correct, then where to people find that time?? Really not that hard to do that. Besides that would be an average. They may watch 3 1/2 hours a day M-F then on the week-end watch 9 hours a day. | |
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The biggest audience for online video is ages 45-64?
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USA | Re: Doubtful.... I'm in the 35-54 age bracket and I've never seen a video on a mobile phone. My phone can do crappy pictures and it took some time to get to this stage. | |
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kudos:1 | What is this "TV" you are talking about? Seriously, I might watch 30 minutes a month, if I do not pass by too quickly. Most shows on TV are worthless.
I might watch 5 minutes of video on PC a month on the average.
And I do not have a cell phone yet, might have to get one someday since the kid is going to need one soon, teachers send out homework assignments over text messages????
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| Re: What is this "TV" you are talking about? said by RayW:And I do not have a cell phone yet, might have to get one someday since the kid is going to need one soon, teachers send out homework assignments over text messages???? Huh? What teacher does that? I have never heard of a teacher who does that, ever.
Some teachers don't even bother with E-mail, although nowadays most do use E-mail from what I can tell. | |
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| | HDTV brings the movie theater home Big, wide screen and surround sound brings the movie theater experience home.
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Gorham, ME | Re: HDTV brings the movie theater home said by fifty nine:Big, wide screen and surround sound brings the movie theater experience home. Despite advances in TV technology, watching a movie at home is still a third-rate simulation of the movie theatre experience. 
Seriously, unless your "big, wide screen" measures 20 feet by 30 feet, you're not experiencing anything near what you get in a movie theatre. The idea behind watching a movie is that what's taking place on screen is larger-than-life.
A 60-inch HDTV is nice to have, no question, but let's not kid ourselves by claiming that watching a movie on one is "just like" watching it in the theatre. It isn't, and that's why people are still perfectly willing to shell out $10 for a movie ticket.
I do agree completely on the cell phone thing and am lucky enough to have found a theatre where that sort of interruption is kept to a minimum.
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Manchester, NH | Re: HDTV brings the movie theater home said by Mr Neutron:Seriously, unless your "big, wide screen" measures 20 feet by 30 feet, you're not experiencing anything near what you get in a movie theatre. The idea behind watching a movie is that what's taking place on screen is larger-than-life. You aren't sitting close enough to your tv then. | |
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| | Figures don't lie but... The average American watches 4 hours of mobile phone video per month? Come on. There's just no way that number can be accurate.
By the time you eliminate Americans without mobile phones, Americans whose mobile phones don't support mobile video, and Americans with mobile phones that support video that never watch it, you have a faily small group of people who would need to be watching video on their phones 48 hours per 24 hour day to get to that statistic. There's something seriously fishy with this study. | |
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| Re: It's not the average American, but the average viewer said by probboy:On the second page of the report, it states "..that the average television viewer watches more than 151 hours a month." I interpret that to mean that they did not include anyone who does not watch TV. The actual average would be lower. How much, I don't know. Probably not much. The number of folks who really don't watch any kind of TV at all are very low. | |
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LOST
Heroes
The Office
Scrubs (used to)
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| | lets get back to work if every American used that 37.5 hours to do something more productive, like work extra hours (assuming you still have a job) maybe this recession would bounce back faster because we are getting paid more money that can be spent, but hell lets make it worse....
I got no job....lets watch tv instead of finding work
I watch Heroes, Smallville, and family guy.
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| | A message for those 151 hr/month viewers Read a book. Either All That Glitters by Colleen Cook (1992) or Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman would be a good start. | |
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| | Wrraaa... I don't even think I watch that much TV in an entire month. Now if you started logging my computer hours i'd probably be at least 4/5ths of my waking hours | |
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