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What is the average age of a network TV viewer?
- Thread starter BMR
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The age of popular prime time TV viewers is mostly in the 40s and 50s.
https://www.businessinsider.com/med...tv-2018-5#will-and-grace-nbc-median-age-522-9
What skews the numbers is older viewers are more sedentary and watch longer than younger viewers.
The other day I did remark it was odd that Fox had 2 hours of animation in Sunday peak time. I'm guessing that helps explain their younger demographic numbers...
Actually ABC is now skewing older than CBS.
Yes one of the Shows that airs on ABC "The Good Doctor" its median age is 58 and its the oldest.
But Empire a Disney Owned show that has a broadcast contract with Fox Broadcasting Network has the youngest median age at 47.
and many can't figure out how to use streaming services
And there are other old geezers, like me, who have been using them pretty much as long as they've been around in one form or another, going back to the bad old days of RealPlayer in the late 1990s.
You gave me a flashback moment to NAB conventions towards the end of the 90's where RealNetworks was handing out a demo of its developers kit. I got one, and for a while messed around with streaming KTNQ and also bits from our evening sports show, such as interviews.
For all we say about it today, it actually worked and could be implemented by less skilled webmasters, like me...
Hard to stream if you don't have internet, and a lot of rural areas have no internet.
Nearly every TV in the last half decade or so has smart TV functions that are very easy to use. I'd say the major reason for not using streaming has more to do with cost than with technical skills (or, as BigA says, lack of high speed connectivity).
I'm on the fence about switching to a streaming service for TV and would do it in a heartbeat if it wasn't for my wife and daughter still wanting cable. I'm trying to wean them off by only having 2 cable tuners in the house and using Spectrum's Roku app everywhere else.
Unfortunately the only choices for me for high speed internet are Spectrum and DSL from the local excuse for a phone company, which I cut the cord from a few years back. So I'll still have to deal with Spectrum to get the best internet.
Unfortunately the only choices for me for high speed internet are Spectrum and DSL from the local excuse for a phone company, which I cut the cord from a few years back. So I'll still have to deal with Spectrum to get the best internet.
Count me as the same kind of "geezer." I mostly stream now, but I think I stopped watching most "Big 4" network TV about 20 years ago, in favor of much superior basic and premium cable shows, with better writing, better acting, and less censorship. I think about the only show I have watched on CBS this decade was The Good Wife. Last on ABC was Lost. I occasionally watch The Good Place on NBC, but that's currently about the only time I tune in a broadcast channel any more.
Even local news - mostly my local NPR radio station or news apps on my phone.
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