Americans would give up TV before Internet

[Jesus Malverde]

Americans have become so enamored of the Internet, they would more readily forgo television than online access, a survey showed Thursday.

The Pew Research Center survey released ahead of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web found 53 percent of US Internet users would find it "very hard" to give up Web access, up from 38 percent in 2006.

Even when counting those who don't go online, Pew said 46 percent of all adults would find it hard to give up the Internet.

By contrast, Pew's survey showed 35 percent of all US adults television would be very hard to give up, compared with 44 percent in 2006.

Women were more likely than men to be attached to the Internet, as were people with higher levels of income and education, Pew said in the report issued ahead of the March 12 anniversary.

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[mike_c]

1. LOL-- I gave up TV, willingly, 20+ years ago....

Utter waste of brain cells, if you ask me.

[liberal N proud]

2. Give up a box that I have little control over content vs one that I have control

Now if we can just figure out how to do it without the cable companies or other big media providers

[murielm99]

3. Maybe some of these networks better

face the fact that a lot of people don't like the crap they are trying to shovel onto us. Most TV is not worth the effort. The so-called news programs are at the top of the list.

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. That actually surprises me. I haven't watched for many years, but TV seems even more popular

than when we were still watching it, judging by the number of conversations over-heard and read online.

[monmouth3]

5. Considering most of the inane stupidity on the tv box these days, this comes as no surprise..n/t

[hollysmom]

6. if you have the internet, you have tv. n/t

[phantom power]

7. I wonder if that's actually part of the reason they want to kneecap net neutrality

They know that "cable tv" as we currently know it is on its way out. We still have it, but I think we crossed the threshold to watching more than half of our "tv" via iTunes, and we recently discussed ditching probably 75% of our current cable subscriptions.

They know this. They're about to lose their original, primary, revenue stream. They need to figure out how to go beyond charging people $40/month for internet, and killing net neutrality is a big step in the right direction.

[Triana]

8. Already did, years ago. n/t

[Pretzel_Warrior]

9. my household is done with TV. still have land line though.

[idendoit]

10. The article didn't mention the survey medium or methodology.

If it was done online, the results aren't that surprising. If it was done by phone, then I would say the results are surprising. Was it done as a push poll? I find it hard to point out survey results without knowing this info.

[teach1st]

11. Summary of findings

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/summary-of-findings-3/

The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from January 9-12, 2014, among a sample of 1,006 adults, age 18 and older. Telephone interviews were conducted in English and Spanish by landline and cell phone. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. For results based on internet users (N=857), the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

[wildbilln864]

12. yep! n/t