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The rating company A. C. Nielsen, in doing its market research has compiled numbers stating the average American citizen, during a sixty-five year life will have spent just over nine full years watching a television. This can translate into nearly 28 hours of TV watching per week and up near a full two months viewing per year! A very simple indication of has become our national obsession.

Households in the United States have the highest ownership rate on earth today per-capita. With numbers over ninety-nine percent owning a minimum one, and standing at an average of not quite three TV sets in each home. These sets are turned on, (if being watched or even not) for almost seven solid hours per day on average, and when the term couch potato is being used, it does not fall too far from base does 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 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 made commercially available in the early nineteen-thirties time frame. The first actual public broadcasts having been made from the Olympic games of nineteen thirty-six in Berlin, Germany from government run stations in that city and from Leipzig as well. This availed the games for viewing the first time to a nations populace. Due to sheer cost and a lack of programming, the television was not to make headway into peoples hearth and home until the mid part of the nineteen-fifties.

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.

The average American youth spends around nine hundred hours per year in school. That same child spends nearly seventeen hundred hours watching television in that same year! Since the nineteen-seventies, the disparity in these numbers has been growing steadily. With the addition of inventions like the VCR, DVD, Blu-Ray, DVR and the like we have added to these already high numbers in recent years.

The television can definitely be used as a valuable tool in learning, tele-communications, and many other things. With its over use as a social crutch, or simple distraction, its greatest flaws and detriments can be seen. The American public needs to be made aware of this and try to monitor viewing for far more productive things.

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