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Kids Ditch Traditional TV and Head for the Tablet

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Don’t you just love how kids latch onto the latest technology seemingly moments after being born? We all know that children aged 15 and below are generally technologically ‘savvy’, and this is borne out by a new study which reveals that UK children owning a tablet has virtually doubled in the last year, and it comes at the expense of bedroom TV’s, which are being dumped.

Kids-Watching-TVThe study by UK broadcasting and telecoms regulator Ofcom says that kids are now less likely to own a bedroom TV now than any time during the previous five years, but they are much more likely to have their own tablet PC, possibly due to the influx of cheap tablets such as the Tesco Hudl.

The report says that the number of children owning a tablet is 34% or one in three , and that 62% of children use a tablet at home, even if they don’t own one. Showing that any age can use a tablet, 11% of kids aged 3-4 own a tablet, up from 3% last year.

watching streaming TV using a tablet has grown to 20% now compared to 15% a year ago, a rise of a third. 33% of children watch on-demand TV.

Although the number of children owning a bedroom TV set has dropped a third in five years, they still spend more time watching TV (14.6 hours) each week than doing any other media activity.

The report which comes shortly after another study showing that UK online viewing has reached an all time high, reports that the number of children having a television set in the bedroom has dropped from 66% in 2009 to 46% now, but strangely when they were asked which devices they would miss the most, kids said the TV above mobiles, tablets and even games consoles.

 


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