Americans Watching "Less" "TV" - Still spend most of their lives staring at screens

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The latest numbers show that Americans are watching "less TV" because.... they are watching more streaming and internet TV. All in - Americans are spending close to 5 hours a day watching TV. ON AVERAGE. That's crazy. 

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Yes, it’s really happening: Americans are watching less television.
And not just the young people. It’s across the board.
The amount of time that Americans spent watching live television plus DVR playback shrank in the third quarter of this year, after growing steadily in the preceding four years, according to the Nielsen Cross-Platform Report that came out today.
Don’t worry, we’re still a couch potato nation, in which the average person watches more than four hours a day. But the trend is in a downward direction. Americans watched an average of 4 hours and 18 minutes of live TV and 25 minutes of DVR playback in the third quarter of 2013, down from 4 hours and 24 minutes and 22 minutes of DVR playback in the third quarter of 2012.
Those lost minutes are going just where you expect: mobile and web. The average person spent 16 minutes watching video on mobile in the third quarter of 2013, up from 11 minutes the previous year, and 46 minutes watching online video in the third quarter of 2013, up from 40 minutes the previous year, according to the report.

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