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Stats on Americans' TV Viewing Habits
In a nationwide 2014 survey Barna found the following stats about Americans' TV viewing habits:
- 74 percent of Americans turn on their TV everyday
- 5 percent don't watch any TV
- 33 percent watch 1-2 hours of TV per day
- 32 percent watch 3-4 hours
- 30 percent watch 5 hour or more per day
But this was one of the most surprising and sobering results of their research:
Practicing Christians tend to watch more television than non-Christians … By contrast, adherents to faiths other than Christianity watch 2.6 hours of TV per day and those of no faith, which includes self-identified atheists and agnostics, watch 2.7 hours … Church attendance seems to make little difference in the number of viewing hours. Those who attended church within the past week, those who attended within the past month, and those who have not attended at all within the past six months all watch an average of 3.2 hours per day.