| Our Nation And The Television Obsession. |
| Written by Matthew Kerridge |
| Monday, 07 December 2009 09:05 |
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A. C. Nielsen Co., in its research says that the average American, in a sixty-five year life will spend nine years watching a television. This translates into twenty eight hours a week or two full months per year of viewing! Just an indicator of our obsession involving them.
A. C. Nielsen Co., in its research says that the average American, in a sixty-five year life will spend nine years watching a television. This translates into twenty eight hours a week or two full months per year of viewing! Just an indicator of our obsession involving them. Households of the United States have attained the highest TV ownership rate on the earth today per-capita. These numbers are over ninety-nine percent in owning at minimum one, and nearing an average of three TV sets being in each home. These sets are usually turned on, (whether they are watched or not) for periods of almost seven solid hours per day at average, and thus the term of couch potato being used is used regularly. Not too far from truth is 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 growth in TV sets skyrocketing, the television began to develop itself into an advertising tool that remains unmatched. In recent years and currently, broadcasters are using up to a full thirty-percent or even more of their available broadcast time for advertising and sales. The average viewer or young child in the U. S. Today sees as many as twenty thousand or even more, thirty second commercials each and every year. The results can be shown in the effects on our restaurants, retailers, and even manufacturers, at the base of our whole economy itself. If you have been into a chain, or fast-food restaurant recently, and you would NOT have gone but for the children's asking of you, in their quest to get the newest toy or prize offered with a meal you already hold proof. Average American youths spend around nine hundred hours in school per year. Now compare this, that same young child spends very near seventeen hundred hours or more watching television during that same year! Ever since the early nineteen-seventies, disparity in those numbers has been advancing steadily. With additions of the various inventions like; DVD, VCR, the Blu-Ray, DVR systems and the like, we are adding to these already heightened numbers during 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. About the Author: Matthew Kerridge is an expert in electronic consumables. If you want further information about varieties of televisions or are searching for a reputable television retailer please visit http://www.ebuyer.com |