July 20, 2009 8 Comments
New findings from Nielsen’s Television Audience Report show that in 2009 the average American home had 2.86 TV sets, which is roughly 18% higher than in 2000 (2.43 sets per home), and 43% higher than in 1990 (2.0 sets). In addition, there continue to be more TVs per home than people – in 2009 the average U.S. home had only 2.5 people vs 2.86 television sets.
This year about 54% of homes in the U.S. had more than 3 or more television sets, 28% had 2 television sets and only 18% had 1 television set.
Other Key Stats
There are 114.5 million TV homes in the U.S. in 2009
- 38% of U.S. TV homes have digital cable.
- 88% have a DVD player, while VCR fell to 72%.
- 82% of homes have more than 1 television set.
- 11% of U.S. TV homes only have the capability to receive TV reception “over the air”. These homes have neither cable nor ADS.
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How many homes have no sets? And is that number growing? It certainly is among our younger employees… they watch but online
[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]
[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]
[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]
It is mildly interesting that we will double the number of TVs per household in about 30 years … 30 years is the new “generation” [as opposed to the older 25 years] because people just live longer and have kids later. But I digress.
The more interesting statistic would be to see the growth rate of monitors [TVs, computers, cell phones, picture frames, auto GPS] per household since 1975. It’s a hard figure to acquire. Videography Lab has been on it for a couple of years.
On the day of this authors birth, in January 1946, there were less than 40,000 monitors in non military use worldwide. Sixty three years later in 2009 there are well over 8,000,000,000 monitors on Earth and that number is growing exponentially as automotive and mobile monitors [aka handsets] hit there stride in “the Age of Videography” [Miller Freeeman publishers - 1996].
All these monitors are intended to convey information and to improve life. Why don’t we see life improving?
[...] average American home now has 2.86 televisions and just 2.5 people, according to a new survey by Nielsen. The number of TVs jumped from 1.57 in 1975 to 2.43 in 2000 as the Internet gained popularity. The [...]
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