Americans Watch More TV Than Ever

A new Nielsen study released today finds Americans are watching more TV than ever before. The average U.S. household watched TV for 8 hours and 18 minutes a day from September 2007 to September 2008, which is a record high since the days Nielsen Co. started measuring television in the 1950s.
In the third quarter of 2008, Americans watched more than 142 hours of TV a month, which is up five hours from the same period last year. And Americans spent 50% more time watching time-shifted TV (through a DVR, for instance) than they did during the same period last year.
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