Referencing predictions in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007 that the U.S. Census Bureau is issuing tomorrow, USA Today noted today that next year, Americans will spend nearly half their lives consuming media, whether watching television, going online, listening to music or reading. Specifically for TV, each person will spend 1,555 hours watching in 2007.
If there was ever a wakeup call for me to purchase a TV, this is it. Clearly I have a lot of catching up to do. Also, I notice via another study that I can no longer make excuses by saying a TV is an unnecessary expense.
According to a paper by two professors of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 14 percent of people who live in the Ivory Coast on $1 a day have a TV and 45 percent of those there who live on $2 a day have one.