TV Ownership Down in America, Nielsen Says | The Wrap TV

Kill your television? A growing number of Americans are choosing to do just that, according to the Nielsen Company.

Nielsen announced on Tuesday that TV ownership in the U.S. is down for the first time in 20 years, based on data gathered from the 2010 census.

According to Nielsen, the percentage of households with televisions has declined to 96.7, compared with the 98.9 percent from previous estimates in 2000.

We could wish it were a sign of Christians opting out of the greatest influence for worldly mindset, but given the state of the churches, not likely to happen.

Radio a better medium for the gospel than televison?

people once thought television would replace radio, but didn't take into account that television is a completely different medium.

  "People see fleeting images," he explains. I'll have people come up to me and say, 'Oh, I saw you on television.' They'll tell me the show and I'll say, 'What did I say?' -- and they don't remember what I was talking about. No one comes up to me to tell me about BreakPoint without telling me the subject and what I talked about that affected them."

Chuck Colson thinks so. Intriguing article.