Television viewership continues to shrink. The week of July 4th was the least-watched week in recorded history.
Although you may look at the holiday and traditional weather and events, its clear TV is losing is hold on popular culture…summer reruns ring a bell? Only 20.8 million viewers were tuned in to primetime television at any given moment. The previous low: 21.5 million viewers set last July. But even traditional high ranking shows have fallen to thier lowest ratings, including the Academy Awards. But our media attention-span society is looking at YouTube, video games, iPods and of course the internet.
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2 replies on “TV ratings continue slipping”
It is amazing to see the trend change. On demand television was developed to late… The internet got to it first. I know personally, I might have a TV on but I am on the web anyway.
Honestly, summer programming is complete crap. other than shaws that are on constantly, like the simpsons, I haven’t been watching much on TV this summer. I’d venture to guess that over half of the TV I watch is downloaded from the internet. Thank you BitTorrent.
This also makes me happy. I think this could be the answer the networks are looking for. I’m sure they like people paying 2 bucks to download shows from iTunes, but I don’t think many people are interested in paying to download what they can watch on TV for free.