Religious TV is, literally, off the bottom of the chart of weekly TV consumption. The TV is viewed by someone a total of 35 hours a week in the average home. News and information is the most widely consumed item among all that TV offers.
Older adults are more likely to watch the news than are younger adults.
Adults with a high school diploma or less are much more likely to get their news from TV, while those with a college education are more likely to balance TV with print news media. In fact, the more education a person has the less likely they are to watch TV at all. TV technology is shifting viewer behavior. With cable and satellite TV systems, the average home now has access to 63 channels, but the average adult only views 10 or 11 of these each week and no more than 24 in a quarter. Half of television viewers zap commercials during the first six seconds.