The Super Bowl is routinely the year's most watched program, with audiences north of 80 million -- about 40 percent of U.S. television households.
As of Sept.1, 2004, HDTV service was available in every one of the top 100 U.S. markets, and to over 90 million U.S. television households, an increase of 140% since January of 2003.
The Tara Duncan animated series, which was produced by Moonscoop, Disney and M6, is now also available to some 40 million digital cable television households in the U.S on the Kabillion Girls Rule Video on Demand channel.
The announcement was made against a backdrop of rapid 3D growth in the consumer home entertainment marketplace, with three times as many 3D enabled Blu-ray Disc releases in 2012 than in 2011 and 3D television households nearly doubling from 3.5 million in 2011 to an estimated 6.4 million in 2012.
The FCC pushed hard to move digital television to American households.
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The rating reflects the percentage of households watching television that tuned in to a given show.
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Decades ago, the government gave broadcasters, for free, a huge amount of spectrum to reach 100 percent of American households with television and radio programming.
That game was viewed in nearly 22% of American households with a television.
The percent of U.S. households with a television set fell to 96.7 percent from 98.9 percent, said Nielsen, which tallies viewers for TV networks and advertisers.
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Syndicated talk radio shows, such as those headed by conservative Rush Limbaugh, have given new life to the medium (radio actually reaches more households today than television).
Because Italy is an underdeveloped market, with only 30% of households paying for television, says Mr Mockridge, there is plenty of room for both Sky and Mediaset Premium to grow.
About 250, 000 people are expected to travel to Perthshire to attend the event, with an estimated half a billion households watching it on television.
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The previous head count revealed that at the start of the century fewer than half of India's households owned a bicycle, television or toilet.
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By 2000, 98% of all American households had at least one television set, and the medium had become the major source of political news for the public.
More than 200 million households in China have cable-television access, according to analysts, but relatively few subscribe to premium services.
Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 18 consecutive years.
So households will have to switch to digital television, which offers better pictures and more channels.
Entertainment will leverage YOU On Demand's platform to provide a potential 200 million cable households access to the studio's films on their television sets.
Weather.com is the online version of the Weather Channel, the 24-hour cable and satellite television channel launched in 1982 and now available in 86 million American households.
Researchers will revisit the same 2000 households annually and track them until Internet technology becomes as pervasive as television, Cole says.
At the same time, telephone outfits are pushing to be allowed to deliver television and audio services over their fiber-optic lines to more and more households, and guess who's yelping like whipped dogs--and lobbying like pit bulls--to prevent it?
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has pointed out that a disproportionate number of elderly and low-income households, who cannot afford new digital TVs, could find themselves without television after the switch.
"Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television, " Hammer said, directly refuting the 2012 statistic that 49 percent of US households own a gaming console.
Last year, Sprint Cup Series events ranked among the top two sports of the weekend on television 20 out of 36 points event weekends, with an average of 4.1 million households and 5.8 million viewers tuned into each NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event.
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Stayin' Alive reached 800 million households between July 2002 and March 2003, or roughly two-thirds of the world's television viewers.
On Monday a new television network aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds will premiere on cable TV in some 20 million households.
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