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Daily North Americans average 4 hours and 24 minutes viewing TV, 1 hour and 21 minutes more than the world average. ...read more
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MTV is watched by 73% of boys and 78% of girls ages 12 to 19. The network averages 13 sexual scenes per hour. (Foster ...read more
G-Rated Most Profitable: The average G-rated film is 11 times more profitable than its R-rated counterpart, but the film industry made more than 12 times as many R-rated as G-rated movies from ’89 –’03. This is according to a recent study by The Dove Foundation. 51.4% of movies released in this ...read more
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and The Dove Foundation are partnering to help consumers searching for family-friendly entertainment. The Dove Family Approved Seal gauges the levels of questionable content. For a list of titles ...read more
Christian Nation: After years of complaining about Hollywood, conservative Catholics and Evangelical Christians are gaining traction. But the battle is a long way from over, and the culture is still up for grabs. Many of these developments stem more from a long-overdue recognition of the importance ...read more
Hollywood Isn’t Listening: There wasn’t a single R-rated movie in the top 20 grossing movies last year. The 20 top grossing movies of last year all have one thing in common — not one carried an R rating. Experts say there’s a struggle between what families ...read more
On an average day, about half the kids in America watching TV view the Nickelodeon channel. (Foster ...read more
The average born again Christian spends more time watching TV in one evening than Bible reading in ...read more
Home Movies 75% of adults prefer watching movies at home vs. in a theater, finds a Pew Research Center survey, up from 67% in ‘94. 71% watch at least one movie a week, mostly at home. Broadcast, cable or satellite TV lead, but 50% ...read more
68% of Americans believe the entertainment industry has lost touch with viewer’s moral ...read more
Wizard Appeal 84% of U.S. teens have read or watched Harry Potter. So have 77% of all church-going and born again Christian teens. Just 4% say they’ve encountered any teaching or discussions in a church about the spiritual themes embedded in the wizardry legend. Among born again teens it’s 13%. ...read more
Film Economics 101 A movie needs to generate 2.5 times its cost at the box office to ...read more
67% of U.S. adults trust the media compared to 59% who trust the ...read more
Global Entertainment and media will grow to $41.8 trillion by ’09 says PriceWaterhouseCooper. Movie box office performance declined 6.2% in ’05, but video sales should reach $26.9 billion by ’09 and rentals ...read more
More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4, ...read more
Movieguide 2006 reports in ’05 films marketed to families drew 4 times more box office receipts than ...read more
The public has come to expect the impossible in pictures and ...read more
You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot ...read more
"If it werent for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, wed still be ...read more
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and ...read more