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Primetime shows increasingly being watched online in US
 
Indiantelevision.com Team

(1 August 2008 6:00 pm)

 

MUMBAI: US research compasny Integrated Media Measurement (Immi) has released the results of a study that shows that online television viewers are using the web not just as fill-in or catch-up but as TV replacement.

 

Of those surveyed, 50 per cent watch episodes they missed on television. They are either filling in an episode online when they had already seen the other episodes around it on TV (18.7 per cent), or they are catching up on an episode online after seeing the subsequent episodes on TV (31.3 per cent).

The other 50 per cent of online viewing is viewers watching shows they don’t see any other way during the month. These are apparently viewers using the Internet to check out shows, replacing the channel flipping or sampling they might have done on the television in the past.

 

More than 20 per cent of panel members watch some prime time programming online, and the largest segment of online television viewers are white, affluent, well educated, working women aged 25-44.
 
 
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