Teens Still Watch TV
The consensus that teenagers are abandoning television for the internet is not true.
This is to one of the findings from a new report by Nielsen. According to the study television viewing rates among teens in the U.S. have actually gone up 6 per cent in the last five years, despite the growth of social media networks and video sites like YouTube.
The finding call into question the general assumption that the internet is eroding television audiences and reducing the amount of time that people watch TV.
The full report is available here, and TechCrunch summarizes some of the key findings here.
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My daughters and her friends have appointment TV programs, I mean content, that they watch. They use the net to watch episodes they may have missed. But alas much of what they want to watch is geo-blocked.
The girls also tell me the sound and picture is better on our HDTV
Nuthin but teenagers & old people in this workshop: "community youth programs" ugh! Why always teens and seniors!?
Well, not like Neilsen has a vested interest in the report.
Still not totally surprising. Teens have very full lives with a lot of homework and socializing. I wonder if the numbers are up because of the recession, since they can’t get casual jobs as easily as before.
Oh – good thing CBC no longer does any youth programming.