Men spent 3 hours a day watching TV, and women 2.5 hours. But TV time is lower (around 2 hrs/day) from ages 20-44, then increases again after 45 and peaks at 75 years old at nearly 5 hours a day.
Households without kids watch more TV, which surprised me.
That's a nice find. I think BLS leisure time data is from the American Time Use Survey [1] which I think is asking something similar to this questionnaire [2] on page 22.
I'm not sure that's saying household time. For example, when they survey a household it wasn't clear to me if they survey everyone in the household or just one person. If it's one person then it sounds like they collect how that one person (age 15+) spent their own time and if there were kids in their household.
So then it'd be accurate to say that individuals in households without kids watch more TV as a singular activity (the survey doesn't allow simultaneous activities).
In comparison Nielsen used TV viewing diaries and automated data collection meters. You could have the TV on in the background while doing chores and it would still count.
It's interesting that the 2009 ATUS survey [3] had a 2.82 hour/person average because that's fairly different from the Nielsen data (4 hours 49 minutes/person).
I wonder if this difference is people underreporting in ATUS or Nielsen overreporting or a factor of differences in limitations in ATUS (no simultaneous activities allowed, 15+ age limitation) or Nielsen.
If Millennial still = young then yeah, YT or something in background on TV, doing something on laptop (dev, or photo editing or other) and then occasionally phone over laptop as well to reply to chats and stuff.
I would kill for some decent high res wide fov AR glasses.
Happy british baking children! I dont know what its called but it is on netflix and they are indeed happy, british and they bake. Or just put on Asianometry if you need to focus a bit more. I must have been through his back log a dozen times at this point. There is something about that mans voice that helps relax and focus like nothing else
For me it depends on what I'm doing. During working hours I have Soma FM playing at a low volume. Otherwise I'll probably have cooking videos or history documentaries playing as the background noise.
According to historical Nielsen data[1] from 1991 to 2009: most Americans.
Even back to 1950, for per household data, it was above 4 hours.
[1] https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2009/average-tv-viewing-for...
2022 data from the BLS: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11A.htm
Men spent 3 hours a day watching TV, and women 2.5 hours. But TV time is lower (around 2 hrs/day) from ages 20-44, then increases again after 45 and peaks at 75 years old at nearly 5 hours a day.
Households without kids watch more TV, which surprised me.
That's a nice find. I think BLS leisure time data is from the American Time Use Survey [1] which I think is asking something similar to this questionnaire [2] on page 22.
I'm not sure that's saying household time. For example, when they survey a household it wasn't clear to me if they survey everyone in the household or just one person. If it's one person then it sounds like they collect how that one person (age 15+) spent their own time and if there were kids in their household.
So then it'd be accurate to say that individuals in households without kids watch more TV as a singular activity (the survey doesn't allow simultaneous activities).
In comparison Nielsen used TV viewing diaries and automated data collection meters. You could have the TV on in the background while doing chores and it would still count.
It's interesting that the 2009 ATUS survey [3] had a 2.82 hour/person average because that's fairly different from the Nielsen data (4 hours 49 minutes/person).
I wonder if this difference is people underreporting in ATUS or Nielsen overreporting or a factor of differences in limitations in ATUS (no simultaneous activities allowed, 15+ age limitation) or Nielsen.
[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/atus/data.htm
[2] https://www.bls.gov/tus/questionnaires/tuquestionnaire.pdf
[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/atus_06222010.pdf
Thats per household, not per person. That's different. And households also tended to get smaller.
The 1991 data and on was 4+ hours per person (older than 2). 7-8 hours per household.
They didn't have per person for the 1950 to 1990 data, only household (pdf in the link).
_actively_ watch? Probably not many. Having it on as background noise however? 5 hours is pretty easy
Is that still a thing with young people? I associate leaving the TV on in the background as an older generation thing.
I'm middle aged. This kind of background noise sounds terrible to me.
Maybe I just grew up in a quiet place.
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It's a normie thing coping with unbearable ringing emptiness of mind. My sister and niece (7yo) do it.
If Millennial still = young then yeah, YT or something in background on TV, doing something on laptop (dev, or photo editing or other) and then occasionally phone over laptop as well to reply to chats and stuff.
I would kill for some decent high res wide fov AR glasses.
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sure, it's just Critical Role playing on the YT app on their tv, rather than some cable channel.
I mean I use youtube lets plays or twitch streams for that, but yes its still a thing.
watch, or leave running as background noise …
Any recommendations for shows that make good background noise? I wish they had more concerts.
Happy british baking children! I dont know what its called but it is on netflix and they are indeed happy, british and they bake. Or just put on Asianometry if you need to focus a bit more. I must have been through his back log a dozen times at this point. There is something about that mans voice that helps relax and focus like nothing else
For me it depends on what I'm doing. During working hours I have Soma FM playing at a low volume. Otherwise I'll probably have cooking videos or history documentaries playing as the background noise.
the ones i see most often are: The Office, Futurama, Simpsons, Friends, Brooklyn 99, How It's Made (my favourite)
kids these days mostly use youtube or twitch for background noise i think
Shouldn't audio (radio) suffice for that?
"What's a radio?" the kids ask.
Children, sadly.
Families sharing an internet connection. Kids watch 1 o 2 hours each, mom and dad another hour each.