{"id":5988,"date":"2012-09-14T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2012-09-14T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:35:49","slug":"why-our-television-habits-dont-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-our-television-habits-dont-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Our Television Habits Don\u2019t Make Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_1137_WhyOurTelev1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist looked at how irrational our television watching habits can be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changing the channel at the end of a show requires minimal effort \u2013 all you have to do is press a button.<\/li>\n<li>Yet according to one study if you&#8217;re watching a channel then you&#8217;re likely to stay on that channel, even after the show you like ends, and there are better alternatives available.<\/li>\n<li>TV executives seem to know this. England&#8217;s public broadcaster, the BBC would air light and entertaining programs before some of its heavier cultural pieces to force culture on the British.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Some potential explanations for this behaviour include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Channels advertize their own shows on their own network. So if you sit to watch one program you&#8217;re lured into watching more.<\/li>\n<li>There are now so many channels that it&#8217;s difficult to choose which one to switch to. So viewers just stay on the channel that they&#8217;re on.<\/li>\n<li>Procrastination: the same reason we never really cancel our gym memberships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the methodology of the study, what this would mean for Berlusconi and other Italian media barons, and how Rupert Murdoch feels about it over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2012\/09\/economics-watching-tv\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2012\/09\/economics-watching-tv\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist looked at how irrational our television watching habits can be: Changing the channel at the end of a show requires minimal effort \u2013 all you have to do is press a button. Yet according to one study if you&#8217;re watching a channel then you&#8217;re likely to stay on that channel, even after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_1137_WhyOurTelev1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}