As of 2011, household ownership of television sets in
the country is what percentage of all households?
A: 96.7%.
Approximately 114,200,000 How many American households
own at least one television set as of August 2013?
A: Approximately 114,200,000.
Most households have what?
A: More than one set.
When did the peak ownership percentage of households
with at least one television set occur?
A: During the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership.
In 1948, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least
one television while 75 percent did by what year?
A: 1955.
By 1992, 60 percent of all U.S. households received
what?
A: Cable television subscriptions.
There are competing video services on the World Wide
Web, which have become an increasingly popular mode of television viewing
since the late 2000s, particularly with whom?
A: Younger audiences.
Individual broadcast television stations in the U.S.
transmit on what channels?
A: Either VHF channels 2 through 13 or UHF channels 14 through 36.
During the era of analog television, broadcast stations
transmitted on a what?
A: A single universal channel.
Due to the technical complexities of the present
digital television standard, most stations now transmit physically on what?
A: an RF channel that is mapped to a virtual channel, which – with some
exceptions – typically differs from their physical allocation and
corresponds to the station's former analog channel.
The UHF band originally spanned from channels 14 to 83,
though the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has what?
A: Reduced the bandwidth allocation for UHF three times since then.
In 1983 Channels 70 to 83 were cut for what?
A: Emergency and other telecommunications purposes.
In 2009, channels 52 to 69 were removed by mandate at
the completion of what?
A: The transition from analog to digital television.
In 2020, transition away from channels above 36 was
completed to make room for its use by whom?
A: Telecommunications companies, after a 2017 spectrum auction.
Over-the-air and free-to-air television do not
necessitate any what?
A: Monthly payments, while cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS), IPTV and
virtual MVPD services require monthly payments.
The size of the payments vary depending on what?
A: The number of channels that a subscriber chooses to pay for in a
particular package.
The United States has a "decentralized",
market-oriented television system, particularly in regard to what?
A: Broadcast television.
The nation has a national public television service
known as what?
A: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Local media markets have their own television stations,
which may either be what?
A: Affiliated with or owned and operated by a television network.
TV Guide is an American magazine that provides what?
A: Television program listings information.