The average American watches so much TV it's almost a full-time job

FX; Although it is widely believed that traditional television has had a brilliant day, general American adults still spend a lot of time looking at live television - according to the new Nielsen report, in particular 1 4 ½ hours or more per day

If you add DVR watching time to this number, reports show that adults in the United States are watching TV shows over 5 hours a day on average. This survey also found that weekly expiration and general adults watching about 35 hours of TV (live and DVR) per week. Or work full time almost all day

As shown in the following figure, the number of live TVs has been gradually decreasing since the first quarter of 2014, but the total consumption of media has increased significantly since last year.

The above table shows that the tablet and smartphone average time increased by about 63% and 60% from last year.

As a result, the audience rating of television broadcasting has declined steadily (-1% from 2015 to 2016), but the significant growth of consumer media in these new platforms, especially on streaming services, It shows that consumption will continue to grow steadily year after year. Continually release more original content available only on new media

For streaming services, 2016 is the first year of streaming service contracts such as Hulu and Netflix and is the number of DVR service contracts as shown below (Streaming service is marked as requested video or SVOD ).

Despite all the technological progress made over the past few decades, the media that reached the most users in 2016 is still radio, 240 million people. Live TV is second fastest, with 226 million users, followed by 191 million smartphones.

How does the media affect families? According to the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2001, ordinary American children living in the home can watch TV and video, listen to music on radio, tape, CD, play video games, use a computer I did it. So your family? Many people did not realize that life will be better when we started to control the media rather than letting the media control us. Many people do not understand that deterring media abuse is a matter of setting corporate family rules and then executing diplomatically in a diplomatic manner. Establishing the principles of media use for families is the best way to effectively use your electronic equipment rather than letting them use you.

Most people do not really know how much money they can actually spend watching TV or YouTube. According to the "New York Daily News" report, ordinary people watch 33 hours of TV programs every week. This includes Netflix, Hulu, and C-Span (LOL). For YouTube, the average person spends about 14 hours a week. This is a bunch of cat videos and vine editors. There are several good choices, such as reading, painting, walking. Or, if you are a person like me, you just change what you are seeing. I've been watching YouTube for about an hour a day, but I'm not watching videos but watching videos about marketing and startups. On TV, my girlfriend and I did not see the cable, but decided to see Hulu. I have a tendency to see documentaries there.