Small Business Resources, Business Advice and Forms from AllBusiness.com

Two-Thirds of Media Multitaskers Read the Paper While Watching TV

By E&P Staff
Publication: Editor & Publisher
Date: Thursday, December 2 2004
Americans are avid media multitaskers, and a study released today by The Media Center at the American Press Institute shows that a favorite multi-tasking combination is reading the newspaper while watching television.

The most popular simultaneous media usage is reading

the mail while watching TV, a behavior practiced regularly by 73.9% of consumers.

The second most popular activity is reading the newspaper while watching TV, practiced by 64.5%. Then you get to various other combinations of Web/TV/magazines.

The fourth Simultaneous Media Usage Survey, known as SIMM IV, was conducted in May 2004 by BIGresearch for The Media Center. A total of 13,414 respondents participated.

In addition, make sure to read these articles:

  • NEWS
  • IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 1. Bright future for Pamela Sixteen-year-old Pamela Black (pictured) has been named winner of the 2004 FutureChef competition. Over 5,500 students from ......
  • Poll Finds U.S. Residents Trust Gov't More Than Media
  • Sixty-one percent of respondents trust media vs. 52% who trust government, according to a 10-nation poll conducted for Reuters, the BBC, and The Media Center....
  • Advitech Announces Promising Results From Open Clinical Study On New Oral Psoriasis...
  • QUEBEC CITY, Quebec -- Advitech Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AVI) published today promising results of its recently completed open clinical study for its product XP-828L, a new ......
  • A re-launch.
  • Nutrinova, a leading developer and global supplier of sweeteners, preservatives and dietary fibers, has re-launched its Web site, www.nutrinova.com. Nutrinova's Web site can offer comprehensive ......
  • TREND
  • Ad-tention Deficit ......
  • Study: Viewers Spend More Time With Cable
  • Findings part of simultaneous media usage survey ......
  • Samples Drive ROI
  • According to the recent Simultaneous Media Usage Survey conducted by Columbus, Ohio-based BIGresearch, product sampling is the most influential in-store marketing method when it comes ......
  • TV Journalists, Welcome to the Future
  • A recent posting on one of the industry bulletin boards dealt with layoffs at yet another TV station. One participant asked, “Are they really losing ......
  • NAA APPROVES ARCHIVING STANDARDS
  • The Newspaper Association of America Wire Service Committee approved this week the News Industry Text Format (NITF), which is a single standard for news markup ......
  • Ford. (Supplier News).
  • Ford unveiled its new F-650 and F-750 super duty trucks at the Great American Trucking show in Dallas. The new trucks are the first product ......
  • 70% Use Multiple Media at One Time
  • Americans are truly multi-media consumers, according to a study released today by The Media Center at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va.