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http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/09/21/ap3036926.html
Average Home Has More TVs Than People
The average American home now has more television sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.
With televisions now on buses, elevators and in airport lobbies, that development may have as much to do with TV's ubiquity as an appliance as it does conspicuous consumption. The popularity of flat-screen TVs now make it easy to put sets where they haven't been before.
Rick Melen, a facilities manager, has three sets in the Somers, N.Y., home he shares with his wife. That doesn't count the bathroom set that broke down and hasn't been replaced or the speakers installed near their hot tub, allowing them to watch a wide screen set through a window.
"It's really just a matter of where your living takes place, what rooms you tend to spend your time in," Melen said on Thursday. "Other appliances you can move from room to room but if you have cable, you can't move a television."
His wife might want to watch something while she's cooking while he's got a baseball game on downstairs, he said.
Half of American homes have three or more TVs, and only 19 percent have just one, Nielsen said. In 1975, 57 percent of homes had only a single set and 11 percent had three or more, the company said.
David and Teresa Leon of Schenectady, N.Y. and their four-year-old twins have seven sets, plus an eighth they haven't set up yet. They include TVs in both the parents' and kids' bedrooms, the family and living rooms and one in the kitchen that is usually turned to a news station.
"No one ever sits down for more than a few seconds in this house," said Teresa, a stenographer. "This way you can watch TV while you're moving from room to room, folding laundry or taking care of the kids."
In the average home, a television set is turned on for more than a third of the day - eight hours, 14 minutes, Nielsen said. That's an hour more than it was a decade ago. Most of that extra TV viewing is coming outside of prime time, where TVs are on only four minutes more than they were 10 years ago.
The average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day, Nielsen said.
While people are watching more television, ratings for the big broadcast networks have declined steadily. That's a function of the greater number of channel choices available in each home, the company said.
One new Nielsen finding - that young people aged 12 to 17 watched 3 percent more television during the season that ended in May than they had the previous year - is a particular relief to TV network executives.
For a few years, Nielsen had been finding that TV viewing among teenagers was flat or even declining, a trend blamed on the Internet or the popularity of electronic games and other devices."There are just more opportunities for them to watch whatever they want to watch," said Patricia McDonough, Nielsen's senior vice president of planning policy and analysis.
Oddly, one of the driving factors is teenage girls watching more TV late at night or early in the morning, she said.
Posted : 24/09/2006 1:51 pm
We have three TVs in our house and 6 people. I rarely watch TV unless there is a documentary or a classic movie on. If the TVs were stolen by a coon tomorrow, I would not miss them. My main bad habit now is the internet, but spending three or four hours a day on the 'net surfing WN sites to me is more productive than watching four hours of jew filth.
If there were no TV (or computer for that matter), Whites would have to find something else to entertain themselves. No Nigger Football League on Sundays. No Nigger Woods winking to his White whore wife after he sinks another putt. No interracial sitcoms. No holohoax documentaries. No rap videos. What would White people do? Well, hopefully they would use that time more productively with their kids, or even 
read!!! Hell, Whites may even find the time to bond with each other and form racial kinships, which may lead to White solidarity and the jews' ruin!!! SNAP!!! Oh, sorry, I must have dozed off and had a really good dream. 
Posted : 24/09/2006 7:59 pm
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
If it weren't for me, where would I be?
Posted : 24/09/2006 8:21 pm
TV is getting better. One needs to steer clear of the all world news all the time crap and an hour or two a day can be very entertaining.
Like anything: moderation. And kids should be limited to a certain amount of time like no more than 1 hour a day and then they should be shown the door to the outside world by mom and pop.
Posted : 24/09/2006 9:19 pm
The average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day, Nielsen said.
that is astounding.
I've been without tv for a week now and lost 10 pounds in that one week. NO exaggeration, 100% true.
it's the greatest fat loss program ever invented, GET RID OF YOUR TV.
Posted : 29/09/2006 7:30 am
I agree, I gave up the talmudvision about a year ago. Best thing I've ever done, I no longer find myself yelling "you fucking kikes" in my own house.
Posted : 29/09/2006 9:07 am
2 people, 3 TVs including a little b&w in the kitchen. No cable/cabel tv. So I get a handful of stations. Do you ever notice that people can be living in the most derelict hovel but still have that dish on their roof? Sick, sick, sick!
Posted : 29/09/2006 9:38 am
Don't forget that most of the audience looks something like this.
Posted : 29/09/2006 10:12 am
.............*cums*
Posted : 29/09/2006 10:45 am
Do you ever notice that people can be living in the most derelict hovel but still have that dish on their roof? Sick, sick, sick!
I happened to notice this the other day while driving past some blown-out trailer houses that just barely appeared fit for habitation. In spite of the fact that the dwellings were about to cave in, new "DISH NETWORK" satellites could be seen affixed to the side of each trailer. I suppose even poor Americans have been conditioned to perceive jewish television as an essential utility.
The stuff is aggressively marketed, however. I sometimes get multiple telemarketing calls per week (mostly from automated system) from places pushing "satellite TV." The going gimmick is to give away the receiving equipment and perhaps a few months of service in hopes that the recipient will continue paying for it on a monthly basis once the hook hidden inside the freebies has worked its way into the target.
Posted : 29/09/2006 11:47 am
I suppose even poor Americans have been conditioned to perceive jewish television as an essential utility.
Just like cell phones.
I see 1,000 people (all colors) everyday that do not have two nickels to rub together in their pocket but somehow they have a cell phone plastered to their ear babbling away about absolutely nothing.
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Posted : 29/09/2006 12:32 pm
Just like cell phones.
I see 1,000 people (all colors) everyday that do not have two nickels to rub together in their pocket but somehow they have a cell phone plastered to their ear babbling away about absolutely nothing.
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This discussion reminded me of a term I came across in Wired magazine last year. They refer to the cumulative expenses related to cell phone usage and other electronic services as a digital lifestyle tax. And you're right about people without two nickels to rub together, in many cases, shoveling out large sums per month to subscribe to tons of services they really don't need. All of this crap has to be contributing heavily to the "negative savings rate" internet-based "gloom-and-doom economists" enjoy writing about.
Posted : 29/09/2006 8:30 pm
Don't forget that most of the audience looks something like this.
Dibs on Baldy
Posted : 29/09/2006 8:33 pm