I love TV

I watched the last episode of Friends the other night and was wondering how many people tuned into to watch the series finale. As I was looking for the number of viewers I found some other very interesting information that I found online and in a USA Today report in 2006. (click here to read the entire article)

Top 10 most viewed TV show series finales
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I was surprised to see MASH topping the list and blowing all others out of the water!

• 2006 marked the first time that there were more television sets in a home then people, TV sets per home 2.75, people per household
• The average person watches 4 hours and 35 minutes of television a day, that adds up to more then 1500 hours per year
• By the age of 20 the average viewer will have seen over 600,000 commercials
• The Super Bowl is the most popular broadcast of the year
• In 2008, a 30 second advertising slot during the Super Bowl cost $2.7 million
• In 2008 the Advertising Age Annual reported the following revenue from the top cable companies. Figures are in billions

1. Time Warner ($6.97)
2. Walt Disney Co. ($6.75)
3. Viacom ($5.51)
4. News Corp. ($3.84)
5. NBC Universal ($2.91)

Needless to say that we watch a lot of TV. After reading the articles that I found, I came to the realization that I need to watch less TV.