What would you do if you had four extra hours to spend every day? I could hand it to you right now on a silver platter if you like. By tomorrow you could have an extra four hours already. The hours would add up quickly. In a week, you would...

Between 1998 and 2005, the number of violent incidents on prime time network TV grew by 75%. There is now an average of 4.41 instances of violence per hour during prime time, according to a recently released report by the Parent's Television Council. Th...

I don't watch that much TV! "I don't watch that much TV," says the average person, "just a few hours here and there." Unfortunately, the average person, according to the most recent figures from Nielsen Media Research Inc., watches TV fo...

A stunning story appeared in the news recently. A 24-year-old man shot his stepfather five times, simply because the stepfather asked for the TV remote control. Obviously, this person has more serious problems than a addiction to TV (although he might s...

Every night, I battle my TV. Just as I'm settling in to a nice, relaxing half-slumber while listening to Sarah-Jessica-Parker-as-Carrie-Bradshaw rant about men, I find myself rudely awakened by some horrendous Livelinks commercial. Suddenly I'm in a ma...

Many want FCC to clean up TV Many people look to the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, to keep smut off of their TV’s, to stop "wardrobe malfunctions," to force the cable companies to offer a la carte programming, and regulate junk...

A recent study found, surprisingly, that men on TV are mostly jerks. "Men are overwhelmingly described as either villains, aggressors, perverts, philanderers, or, in rare positive stories, as metrosexuals, a study into news and current affairs stories ...

Recently, I had the chance to see "The Secret" at http://thesecret.tv/, which proposed a startling idea: we create our experiences with our thoughts through the “Law of Attraction”. If this is true, then the TV could be a serious saboteur of our effor...

On 21 September 2006, Nielsen Media Research, Inc. revealed the latest statistics about America's TV habit. Americans now watch an average of 4 hours 35 minutes of TV every day. This is up three minutes from last year. Furthermore, a TV is playing in t...

According to Nielsen Media Research, Inc., the average American watches TV for 4 hours 32 minutes every day. The time people are spending in front of the TV, in spite of the warnings about obesity and other negative effects, strongly suggests that Ameri...

Think you can’t live without your electronic companion, the TV set? Think getting rid of TV would leave your life empty and meaningless? On the contrary, living without TV can be much more peaceful, enjoyable, healthier, and happier. Can you imagine...?...

Americans are watching more TV and doing less in their communities Americans watch TV 4.5 hours per day on average. TV takes up so much time that citizens are becoming less active socially and politically. They are more informed about the character's n...