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

[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.