Despite the fact that more than half of the homes in the United States have three or more television sets, the number of Americans that own a TV is dropping for the first time in 20 years. A combination of the switch from analog to digital TVs, economic recession and the growing popularity of watching TV online has led to a sharp decline — throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, about 99 percent of American households had at least one TV, but now less than 97 percent do.
More facts about TV:
On average, Americans spend about three hours a month watching video online, an amount that increased by more than 50 percent from 2008 to 2009 and was expected to increase even more dramatically in 2011.
The number of people who watch video on mobile phones also went up by more than 50 percent from 2008 to 2009.
Added together, the time the average American spends watching television adds up to more than 50 days per year.
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