How American's Get TV and News at Home

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This article focuses on the different ways people at home get their news.  The 3 main ways are Local Tv News, Network TV News, and Cable TV news.  The article touches on how influential these different sources are to people and how much time people spend watching and getting news information.  Overtime people have become more reliant on television so newspaper and radio numbers have dropped.

top 10 facts:
1) "the cable news audience devotes twice as much time to that news source as local and network news"
2) "cable television seems to have an outside ability yo influence the national debate and news agenda"
3) "when the audience is largest cable talk shows tend to hammer away at somewhat narrow new's agenda that magnifies the day's more polarizing and ideological issues."
4) "most dedicated cable news viewers 72 minutes."
5) "significant declines in Americans' reliance on newspaper and radio over time."
6) "local news audience is highest during the late 11 p.m. newscast"
7) "more than half of the adult Americans watch more than one form of television news."
8) "Fox News and MSNBC appeal to different politically segments audiences"
9) "there is more crossover news consumption on the television side of the three competitive cable news outlets than there is on their digital properties."
10) "people in the top category for each platform-the heaviest users in terms of time spent-are far more engaged than those in tiers two and three."