Monday, November 2, 2015

Americans and TV News

Summary of the Article:
This article focuses on how Americans get TV news at home. It stated that Democrats are more likely to get their news from multiple TV sources while Republicans are not. It touched on how many, how often and when Americans watch the news. It was also explained that Americans watch their news on cable TV, local TV, and network news. Cable news is the most popular news viewing on average.

1. Over the course of a month, 71% of Americans watch local TV news while 65% watch network news.
2. More than one-third of Americans watch the news on cable TV.
3. News viewership is the largest during the night.
4. Americans who watch cable news very heavily watch for 72 minutes on average a day. TV local news heavy viewers average around 22 minute.
5. Heavy viewers of network and local news spend their most time watching cable news.
6. More than 50% of adult Americans watch more than one form of TV news.
7. CNN reaches 20% of US adults, Fox News reaches 18%, and MSNBC reaches 14%.
8. 28% of Fox News viewers watch MSNBC, while 34% of MSNBC viewers watch Fox News. 54% of MSNBC viewers watch CNN, while 44% of Fox News viewers watch CNN.
9. About 38% of Americans access their news sources through their home desktop/laptop computer.
10. Nbcnews.com is one of the most viewed news sites on the internet. The second most viewed news site is cnn.com, followed by foxnews.com

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