TV and newspaper most popular U.S. news sources
By Erina Lin, Thursday 27 March 2008 at 22:07 :: World Digital Media Trends :: #1457 :: rss
Television and newspapers were the most popular news sources in U.S., according to the Pew Research Center Biennial News Consumption Survey 2006.
Nearly six out of 10 respondents said they got news from TV yesterday, while 40 percent said so from newspapers, 36 percent from radio and 23 percent from Internet.
When asked if they used the medium for more than 30 minutes, 48 percent of respondents said they did so on TV, and 24 percent and 22 percent for newspapers and radio, respectively. Only nine percent said they spent half an hour or more on the Internet yesterday.
Pew also stated in its research that the average number of minutes U.S. users spent on each medium a day were: 53 minutes on TV, 43 minutes on radio, 40 minutes on newspapers and only 32 minutes on the Internet.





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