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Who Cares if Analog TV Goes Dark?
AVIDJockey writes "Take this with a grain of salt, but earlier this month the Consumer Electronics Association giddily released data showing that of America's 285 million TVs only 12 percent (33.6 million) are used for watching OTA broadcasts. In a further revelation, the CEA's numbers say that approximately 3 million (around 10 percent) aren't used for viewing broadcast television at all. Instead, the electricity gobbled up by these sets is used to play videogames, watch movies on DVD, or view old Jane Fonda exercise tapes."
If Bush would have won the election by 12% you know what they would have called it? A LANDSLIDE. (now no bush bashing- everyone does good at one time or another, yes even Hitler) Mod me +5 Troll and give me some Carrot Ale damnit!
...the only reason they're so poor that they can't afford a new TV is because they never go outside, have shit jobs, are unsociable, fat, and unable to grow their own vegetables.
Not my point at all. I'm just saying, if you aren't sitting in front of your TV you can do something useful with your time.
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...won't give you Action news at 11. Radio does not give you the visual.
Again, how often is 'Action news at 11' critical. I cancelled my satellite a couple months ago because I didn't watch it much and didn't watch the news for a considerable amount of time before that. Wow, I'm still a functioning member of society - even without the news.
As for your list of "possibles"...I think that is grossly unfair and arrogant. You do not know how much time "those people" spend watching tv.
I don't know how much time any individual person spends watching TV, or even how much time the 12% that watches TV OTA spends in front of the tube. What I do know is that statistically americans watch a lot of TV. According to Nielsen the average american watches 3 hours and 46 minutes EVERY DAY. Considering there are many people that don't watch any or are too busy to watch 3 hours a day, somebody is watching way more than that.
One of the MAJOR boastings of our election system is the TV media to get the politician's words to people. By removing TV's for 12% you are effecting 12% of the voting population.
So how did we ever hold elections prior to TV? IMHO all political advertising on TV does is help ensure the most charasmatic, likeable person gets elected into office. What the politician says has much less impact than how he/she says it or how they look on TV. Personally I've never heard our election system boast about TV media.
I would also like it to be known, that the broadcast TV media makes a lot of profit - even from broadcast TV....
Broadcast TV used to make a lot of profit. Over the last few years they have been floundering seriously.
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