A. C. Nielsen Co., in its research says that the average American, in a sixty-five year life will spend nine years watching a television. This translates into twenty eight hours a week or two full months per year of viewing! Just an indicator of our obsession involving them.
Households in the United States have the highest ownership rate on earth today per-capita. With numbers over ninety-nine percent owning a minimum one, and standing at an average of not quite three TV sets in each home. These sets are turned on, (if being watched or even not) for almost seven solid hours per day on average, and when the term couch potato is being used, it does not fall too far from base does it?
Recent surveys discover sixty percent, (or even more possibly) of the U. S. General population is able to name all of the members from a comedy team like the nineteen-thirties era Three Stooges, but under fifteen percent of that same number surveyed are able to name any three of the sitting Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Modern television viewing habits have been seen as aiding developmentally in this in recent times.
The television was actually made available commercially during the early nineteen-thirties. With the first full and actual public broadcasts being made in nineteen thirty-six from the Olympic Games that were held in Berlin Germany. These were made to government run stations both in that city, and that of Leipzig as well. The broadcasts availed the games to viewing for the first time to any nations populace. Due mainly to the sheer cost of them, and a general lack of programming, the TV did not make any real headway into regular peoples homes until after world war two during the nineteen-fifties and early sixties.
With sales of sets skyrocketing, the television had developed itself into an advertising tool as well and still is unmatched. Currently, broadcasters use up to thirty percent or more of available time for advertising. The average young child inside the United States, sees twenty thousand or more thirty second commercials each year. The results show effect on our retailers, manufacturers, and the base of our economy itself. Ask if you have been to a fast food restaurant today, and you would have gone but for the children coaxing of you, to get the newest toy or prize offered with a meal.
Average American youths spend around nine hundred hours in school per year. Now compare this, that same young child spends very near seventeen hundred hours or more watching television during that same year! Ever since the early nineteen-seventies, disparity in those numbers has been advancing steadily. With additions of the various inventions like; DVD, VCR, the Blu-Ray, DVR systems and the like, we are adding to these already heightened numbers during recent years.
The television is, and can definitely be a valuable tool by use of learning, communications, and wise development. With the over use as a distraction or social crutch being its greatest flaw or detriment. The American public should be aware of this and attempt to monitor its viewing for more productive and responsible things.
Households in the United States have the highest ownership rate on earth today per-capita. With numbers over ninety-nine percent owning a minimum one, and standing at an average of not quite three TV sets in each home. These sets are turned on, (if being watched or even not) for almost seven solid hours per day on average, and when the term couch potato is being used, it does not fall too far from base does it?
Recent surveys discover sixty percent, (or even more possibly) of the U. S. General population is able to name all of the members from a comedy team like the nineteen-thirties era Three Stooges, but under fifteen percent of that same number surveyed are able to name any three of the sitting Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Modern television viewing habits have been seen as aiding developmentally in this in recent times.
The television was actually made available commercially during the early nineteen-thirties. With the first full and actual public broadcasts being made in nineteen thirty-six from the Olympic Games that were held in Berlin Germany. These were made to government run stations both in that city, and that of Leipzig as well. The broadcasts availed the games to viewing for the first time to any nations populace. Due mainly to the sheer cost of them, and a general lack of programming, the TV did not make any real headway into regular peoples homes until after world war two during the nineteen-fifties and early sixties.
With sales of sets skyrocketing, the television had developed itself into an advertising tool as well and still is unmatched. Currently, broadcasters use up to thirty percent or more of available time for advertising. The average young child inside the United States, sees twenty thousand or more thirty second commercials each year. The results show effect on our retailers, manufacturers, and the base of our economy itself. Ask if you have been to a fast food restaurant today, and you would have gone but for the children coaxing of you, to get the newest toy or prize offered with a meal.
Average American youths spend around nine hundred hours in school per year. Now compare this, that same young child spends very near seventeen hundred hours or more watching television during that same year! Ever since the early nineteen-seventies, disparity in those numbers has been advancing steadily. With additions of the various inventions like; DVD, VCR, the Blu-Ray, DVR systems and the like, we are adding to these already heightened numbers during recent years.
The television is, and can definitely be a valuable tool by use of learning, communications, and wise development. With the over use as a distraction or social crutch being its greatest flaw or detriment. The American public should be aware of this and attempt to monitor its viewing for more productive and responsible things.
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