Weekly time spent with TV news in U.S. markets 2017

The graph shows the average weekly time spent watching TV news per person in selected local people meter (LPM) markets in the United States as of the first quarter of 2017, by source. It was found, that Pittsburgh was the leading LPM market in terms of TV news consumption, as the average weekly per person news minutes in the city amounted to 467 (7 hours and 47 minutes) in the measured period. Out of this, 203 news minutes were attributed to local TV news.

Average weekly time spent watching TV news per person in selected local people meter (LPM) markets in the United States as of 1st quarter 2017, by source (in minutes)

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Release date

September 2017

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Region

United States

Survey time period

Q1 2017

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

based on Local People Meter (LPM) markets population

Supplementary notes

Figures were converted to minutes.
The source provides the following information on the methodology: "Local People Meter Markets: Collects tuning and viewing information from the installed households and the persons within them for 365 days annually."

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