It does not reach the 90s, incidentally. And it was difficult there to see the late Sam Kinison. We'll never know what impact his humor might have had, had he not been killed in a motorcycle accident a couple of years ago. And it's always difficult for me to see and hear an old friend and colleague of mine, the late ABC News anchor Frank Reynolds. You heard Edwin Newman say more than seven hours a day.
Some later statistics say just under seven hours a day.
So we'll call it an average of seven hours a day. However you slice, that's a lot of time with the TV on. In the early days of television, it was all live. Videotape hadn't yet been invented. They were huge, clattering machines that poured the motion picture film right into a developing bath.