[shawmutt]

I would point to the proliferation of broadband internet, the affordability of wireless home networks, and the fact that people are getting burned out on the 24 hour news networks.

I for one don't watch TV, two hours a week is stretching it and that's just to hang out with my wife. She watches less and less TV as well, the biggest hit coming when I installed wireless internet and got her a laptop. Computers are no longer delegated to a special room anymore.