Thu Feb 27, 2014, 04:36 PM

Americans would give up TV before Internet

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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Americans would give up TV before Internet (Original post)	Jesus Malverde	Feb 2014	OP
LOL-- I gave up TV, willingly, 20+ years ago....	mike_c	Feb 2014	#1
Give up a box that I have little control over content vs one that I have control	liberal N proud	Feb 2014	#2
Maybe some of these networks better	murielm99	Feb 2014	#3
That actually surprises me. I haven't watched for many years, but TV seems even more popular	Egalitarian Thug	Feb 2014	#4
Considering most of the inane stupidity on the tv box these days, this comes as no surprise..n/t	monmouth3	Feb 2014	#5
if you have the internet, you have tv. n/t	hollysmom	Feb 2014	#6
I wonder if that's actually part of the reason they want to kneecap net neutrality	phantom power	Feb 2014	#7
Already did, years ago. n/t	Triana	Feb 2014	#8
my household is done with TV. still have land line though.	Pretzel_Warrior	Feb 2014	#9
The article didn't mention the survey medium or methodology.	idendoit	Feb 2014	#10
Summary of findings	teach1st	Feb 2014	#11
yep! n/t	wildbilln864	Feb 2014	#12

Response to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 04:38 PM

mike_c (35,862 posts)

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

Utter waste of brain cells, if you ask me.

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Response to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 04:40 PM

liberal N proud (60,030 posts)

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

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 04:40 PM

murielm99 (30,253 posts)

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.

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 05:04 PM

Egalitarian Thug (12,448 posts)

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.

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 05:08 PM

monmouth3 (3,871 posts)

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

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Response to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 05:35 PM

hollysmom (5,946 posts)

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

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 07:49 PM

phantom power (25,966 posts)

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.

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Response to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 08:18 PM

Triana (22,666 posts)

8. Already did, years ago. n/t

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 08:20 PM

Pretzel_Warrior (8,361 posts)

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

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 08:26 PM

idendoit (505 posts)

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.

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Response to idendoit (Reply #10)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 10:11 PM

teach1st (5,874 posts)

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.

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Thu Feb 27, 2014, 10:14 PM

wildbilln864 (13,382 posts)

12. yep! n/t

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