The average person in the United States watches almost five hours of television a day, more than an hour greater than the average of people in the world's biggest economies, new research says.
新研究指出,美國平均每人每天看近五個小時電視,比世界經濟大國民眾看電視的平均時間多一個小時。
2015's International Communications Market report, an annual survey by the UK's telecoms regulator Ofcom, said the average American watches 282 minutes of broadcast television a day - or four hours and 42 minutes.
In comparison, the average Brit watches three hours and 40 minutes of TV - one minute below the average.
相比之下,英國平均每人每天看電視的時間是3小時40分鐘——比世界平均時間少1分鐘。
However, the figures include only live television and recorded programmes, not catch-up television or recorded media - which Ofcom said the UK leads the world in.
The UK saw the greatest decline in linear TV viewing last year, down 4.9 percent, but Ofcom said the UK appears to be "the most technologically-advanced of European nations".
81 percent of Brits have used an online service to watch TV or films, such as Netflix or BBC iPlayer, in the last month, while 16 percent have watched catch-up TV on a tablet. Both were ahead of any other country in the group of the world's biggest economies.