Recent television viewing habits articles

State of the Media: TV Usage Trends, Q2 2010
Posted Nov 18, 2010

Nielsen’s latest State of the Media fact sheet shows that in the second quarter of 2010, U.S. television continued to reach more people over more platforms.

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Posted Mar 17, 2009

Manish Bhatia, President, Advanced Digital Services, Nielsen
Any physicist will tell you energy can neither be created nor destroyed — just changed from one form to another. Much the same can be said these days about television viewing.
Life used to be so simple – one screen, three national broadcast networks and a handful of local TV stations in every market. What’s more, all stations “signed off” sometime after midnight, leaving insomniacs with nothing to watch until morning but the once iconic test pattern. Then along came cable, considerably expanding …

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