The number of US households owning a TV set has declined for the first time in twenty years. The NZ Herald reports:
Ownership of television sets by US households has fallen for the first time in two decades.
Granted, the decline - 96.7 per cent of American households now own sets, down from 98.9 per cent previously - may not seem like much, but there will be many in the industry who will wonder if it's the faint tremor that presages an earthquake.
While you're reading this blog, you're probably not watching network TV. Electronics manufacturers should not be concerned because the world's growing economies (China, India, Canada... ) will devour as many new technologies as Asian factories can churn out. The Herald points out that its our ruling elites who should be worried.
If that's changing, then it's big news and not just for the industry concerned: politics in most western countries is largely driven and dominated by broadcast TV.
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