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TV Has Been Incredibly Resilient As A Medium. But Might That Be Changing?

MEDIA Posted: September 22, 2015 11:28 am

The audience for live TV appears to be contracting to a smaller base of passive, older viewers. Most worrisome from a financial perspective is that television is reaching fewer fifteen-to-thirty-five-year-olds, who spend more time engaging with social media on smartphones than staring at freestanding screens.

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MEDIA Published: 09.21.15

Read the story in New York Review of Books Published: 09.21.15

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