The rating company A. C. Nielsen, in doing its market research has compiled numbers stating the average American citizen, during a sixty-five year life will have spent just over nine full years watching a television. This can translate into nearly 28 hours of TV watching per week and up near a full two months viewing per year! A very simple indication of has become our national obsession.
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?
A full sixty percent or more of the United States population is able to name all members of a comedy team like the Three Stooges comedy team, but but less than fifteen percent of the same number questioned being able to name any three Supreme Court Justices of the nine that sit on it. The modern television has been seen as an aid developmentally in this over a time frame.
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.
The average American youth spends around nine hundred hours per year in school. That same child spends nearly seventeen hundred hours watching a television in that same year! Since the nineteen-seventies, the disparity in these numbers has been growing steadily. With the addition of inventions like the VCR, DVD, Blu-Ray, DVR and the like we have added to these already high numbers in 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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