Percentages Of Television, 2001-2002

2001

Number of TV sets in U.S. households-248 million

Percentage of households with at least 1 TV-98.2%

Average number of TVs per home-2.4

Annual payroll for employees of over 6,000 cable TV networks and program distribution firms in the U.S.-$11.7 billion

Number of television broadcasting networks and stations in the U.S.-1,937

2002

Percentage of adults who said they watched TV-94.3%

Estimated average monthly rate for cable TV-$34.71

ALSO................... older Americans were glued to the tube than any other group (97 percent).