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It's interesting to note that the median age of TV viewership in America is mid-40s or so, depending on the network. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/busines
by cbd1984 12y ago
It's interesting to note that the median age of TV viewership in America is mid-40s or so, depending on the network.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/tv-is-increasingly-for-old-people/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/09/05/tv...
> The median age of a broadcast or cable television viewer during the 2013-2014 TV season was 44.4 years old, a 6 percent increase in age from four years earlier. Audiences for the major broadcast network shows are much older and aging even faster, with a median age of 53.9 years old, up 7 percent from four years ago.
> These television viewers are aging faster than the U.S. population, Nathanson points out. The median age in the U.S. was 37.2, according to the U.S. Census, a figure that increased 1.9 percent over a decade. So to put that in context of television viewing, he said TV audiences aged 5 percent faster than the average American.
(September, 2014)
So if it is just, or mainly, TV, Comcast is in serious shit.
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- nattaylor 12y agoUnfortunately, it doesn't appear that Comcast will be dependent on exclusively TV in the future, and instead appear (to me) to be actively adapting: They own Hulu and are the only broadband ISP available to many Americans. Regulation as a utility, prosecution under anti-trust laws or disruption (like thaumaturgy suggests above) seem like the only hope. The age stats are interesting though. Times have changed since the world that csixty4 describes.