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However, the transition to digital television was set back three times: first to December 31, 2008, then to February 17, 2009, and then finally to June 12, 2009. [ 12] All U.S. full-power analog TV broadcasts were required by law to end on June 12, 2009. [ 13]
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [ 1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [ 2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...
Affluence refers to an individual's or household's economical and financial advantage in comparison to others. [ 1] It may be assessed through either income or wealth . In absolute terms, affluence is a relatively widespread phenomenon in the United States, with over 30% of households having an income exceeding $100,000 per year and over 30% of ...
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions; America's Got Talent; CNN Newsroom; College Football on NBC Sports; Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives; Fast Money; Football Night in America; Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles; NBC Sunday Night Football; NFL on NBC (1955–1998, 2006–present) The Real Housewives of Orange County; Saturday Night Football ...
Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948. [ 1] By 1989, 53 million U.S. households received cable television subscriptions, [ 2] with 60 percent of all U.S. households doing so in 1992. [ 3] Most cable viewers in the U.S. reside in the suburbs and tend to be middle class; [ 4] cable television is less common in low ...
Certain American television events in 2025 have been scheduled. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; information on controversies, business transactions, and carriage disputes; and deaths of those who made various contributions to the medium.
In 2017, Guttmacher reported that almost 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45, with 4.6% of 20-year-olds and 19% of 30-year-olds having had at least one. [ 14] More than six million women in the United States, or 11 percent of women of reproductive age, become pregnant each year.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.