Youth Spend More Time on Web Than TV

ChopsMIDI writes "According to a survey of 2,618 people, aged 13 to 24, teenagers and young adults spend more time on the Internet than watching television, indicating a shift in media consumption for a demographic prized by advertisers. On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail, compared with almost 14 hours spent watching television and 12 hours listening to the radio."

Re:since when...

[Chambers81]

" On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail, compared with almost 14 hours spent watching television and 12 hours listening to the radio, the study said." i believe that statistic is per week, not per day.

Re:mmm.... Radio

[BenjyD]

> I'm really in support of bringing back radio plays and
> dramatizations,
Radio 4 (and 3 too IIRC) from the BBC do plays etc quite often, and you can listen online - here [bbc.co.uk]

A likely explanation

[MrDickey]

As a 15 year-old myself, i do spend lots of time on the web, mainly reading /.

All of my peers, however, are spending most of the time on the web on Kazaa and messenger services like msn messenger and icq. Some of them can waste an entire afternoon just using icq.

As for the internet replacing tv, I blame it on awful daytime programming. I can only watch family matters so many times before I start mutilating neighborhood pets.

Further details and executive summary available

[RZeno]

News.com has a slightly more detailed report: Web marketing sells like teen spirit [com.com]
The executive summary from Yahoo is available (1MB PDF): Born To Be Wired Executive Summary [yimg.com], accessible from Born To Be Wired [yahoo.com]

Re:Heh, what a surprise

[__aasfhc1949]

Hey:

It's not consistently up, but if you're looking for television shows (science fiction in particular), check out tvtorrents.com [tvtorrents.com]. You can download the shows using the Bit Torrent [bitconjurer.org] client.