Two interesting reads

[brooms]

- African-Americans propel prime time TV hits like 'Empire' (source: CNN)
- Most Young People Say They Have Stopped Watching TV (source: Business Insider)

& total digression, but here's a BTS look at Penny Dreadful S2. (source: TV Guide)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

In my country they watch all sorts of stuff on other 'screens': music videos, video game commentaries, vlogs, cat vids, etc. as well as movies and series they've downloaded. Add to that FB, texting, chatting, skyping, and being involved in all sorts of social media. They actually spend a lot of time in front of a screen, much more that I ever used to or simply was allowed to.

That's what I got from the survey too: they still watch TV, just not necessarily on a TV set. That's what I do too. I don't actually have one.

[veritas_poet]

"That's what I got from the survey too: they still watch TV, just not necessarily on a TV set. That's what I do too. I don't actually have one."

It does seem the wording was strange. I think they meant we watch TV in different ways than we used to. It used to be people would all be sitting down at 7:00 to watch a show, because that's the only time you could get it. That started changing way back when VCRs came along, but it's even more true today.

And yet, I effectively don't have a TV either. I have one, but it doesn't work. And I've never had cable.

[ninetydegrees]

For some reasons I missed the rest of the article *facepalm* My apologies. Yeah, you're right. It's a tiny bit different in my country because quality on-demand TV is much more recent (except for people who have been on Netflix US for a long time) and we have a long-established 'tradition' of *cough*illegally*cough* downloading/streaming foreign stuff so people haven't really stopped doing that. But yeah DVRs and integrated recorders play a part too.