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The TV industry is the branch of the entertainment industry that uses television - either traditional analog or digital as the medium. It has a close connection to the film industry which provides full-length motion pictures and the television advertising industry, that relies heavily on high levels of TV consumption.

streaming outlets — such as Amazon Prime, Netflix,Hulu, and Crackle — provided 44 of 409 scripted television shows. That's 21 times more than they produced in 2009, making streaming the fastest-growing area

In 2015, there were an estimated 116.4 million TV households in the United States. According to the Television Bureau of Advertising, approximately 95 percent of U.S. households own TV receivers. The big three networks (NBC, ABC, and CBS), which, along with PBS, reigned for many years as primary sources of information and entertainment for millions of people in the United States, have consistently lost viewers to cable, satellite TV, the Internet, computer games, and video rentals. Network TV viewership drops every year, but this trend hasn't stopped new networks, such as FOX and the CW

TV is the most used medium in the United States. It reaches almost 90 percent of the U.S. population and, on average, an American spends over 2.5 hours daily watching TV. 67 percent of American households reported owning digital TV services in 2015. Audiences are able to choose from a plethora of programs, almost 1,400 TV stations in total.