United States Media Stats
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- Households with television: Households with television are the share of households with a television set. Some countries report only the number of households with a color television set, and therefore the true number may be higher than reported.
- Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers per 1000: Fixed broadband Internet subscribers. Fixed broadband Internet subscribers are the number of broadband subscribers with a digital subscriber line, cable modem, or other high-speed technology. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
- Internet > Internet users > Per 100 people: Internet users (per 100 people). Internet users are people with access to the worldwide network.
- Internet > Internet users per thousand people: Internet users. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
- Internet > Users per 1000: This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
- News Agencies > List of news agencies: List of news agencies.
- Personal computers > Per capita: Personal computers are self-contained computers designed to be used by a single individual. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
- Radio > List of radio stations: List of radio stations.
- Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions > Per 100 people: Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people). Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network. Post-paid and prepaid subscriptions are included.
- Telephones > Mobile cellular > Per capita: The total number of mobile cellular telephones in use. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
- Television > List of TV stations: List of TV stations.
- Television receivers > Per capita: Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
- Televisions per 1000: The total number of televisions. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; World Development Indicators database; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of Internet users (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Internet World Stats, June 30, 2010; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.
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United States Media Profiles (Subcategories)
| Book 32 | Newspapers 18 |
| Cinema 8 | Newspapers and periodicals 6 |
| Cinemas 3 | Telecommunications 15 |
| Communications 4 | Telecoms 6 |
| International voice traffic 3 | Telephones 6 |
| Internet 51 | Telephone system 4 |
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<p>There are 219,000,000 <a href=/graph/med_tel>televisions</a> in the United States. This is equivalent to 754 <a href=/graph/med_tel_cap>televisions per 1000 people</a></p>
<p>As three-quarters of Americans do not <a href=/graph/peo_one_per_hou>live alone</a>, it is reasonable to assume that many people will share a television with other household members (particularly small children).</p>
<p>According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2001 98% of households had at least one television set. Many homes have more than one television with an average of 2.4 sets per household. As an average household has 2.57 members, this equates to approximately 280,000,000 television viewers (assuming everyone living in a house with a television watches it occasionally).</p>
Posted on 12 May 2005
Edria Murray, Staff Editor
United States media is also called the Fourth Estate. It is a term indicating the press maintains equal status with the other branches of the government. Local television is the major option of American adults for news. There is an audience increase in TV for the first time in five years. However, there are fewer networks producing original news compared to 2012. This is mainly the result of television procurement that left a handful of corporations in control of more stations. ¼ of 952 American television stations that air newscasts do not produce their own news programs. Instead, these facilities have forged sharing arrangements where content is produced outside their own newsrooms. Effects on consumers vary according to market. Some news organizations have reduced the number of staff or content production for cost efficiency.
In the field of digital news, there has been extensive overlapping between public relations and news as shown during the 2013 State of the News Media report. Website content is now subsidized by commercial advertisers. It is still written by journalists (who are staff members) and placed on the news page of publishers. At times, this makes it impossible to differentiate from a regular news item. Major dailies like New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have started or declared their intentions to assign personnel staff to this new technique in advertising. It will be part of the so-called “custom content division.” The latest projection by electronic marketers in this industry is that native ads spending will reach $2.85 billion by the end of this year.
Social and mobile developments have also contributed to developments in the US media system. According to industry research, 50 percent of social network users share or repost news stories, images or videos while nearly as many as 46 percent talk about news issues or events on social networking sites like FB and Twitter.
jaacosta47 20 May 2014