Across all age groups, TV remains the number one source for video...."TV accounts for 99 percent of all video consumed in 2008...Even among the 18-to-24-year-olds, it was 98 percent,” according to new research. The study is reported in today's N.Y. Times. It indicates that TV has so far managed to block viewers from switching to those other video sources...cellphones and computers.
None of that helps local TV News though...the latest Pew study on the State of The News Media found a continuing decline in viewership...In 1998, nearly two-thirds of the public (64%) told the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press that they regularly watched local television news. By 2008, that number had fallen to 52%.
So lots of folks are watching TV, but not necessarily the news.
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