According to a recent USA Today article, the average American home now has more television sets than people. The article states that the threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research, with an average of 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people.
In addition, the article quotes other interesting Nielsen findings:
- Half of American homes have three or more TVs, and only 19 percent have just one. In 1975, 57 percent of homes had only a single set and 11 percent had three or more.
- In the average home, a television set is turned on for more than a third of the day???eight hours, 14 minutes, an hour more than it was a decade ago.
- The average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day.
Read more in the USA Today article Average home has more TVs than people.
