Thematic and genre TV preferences of Russians

Most people watch news programs and movies. Distrust of news information occurs - often or rarely - in 66% of respondents (among people with higher education - in 75%). In general, people need a TV to navigate current events in our country, much less often (including less often than in previous surveys) people say that this is a way to relax, unwind, have a good time.

FOMnibus is a representative survey of the population aged 18 and over. The survey involved 1,500 respondents - residents of 104 urban and rural settlements in 53 subjects of the Russian Federation. Face-to-face interviews were held at the place of residence of the respondents. The statistical error does not exceed 3.6%.

How often do you watch TV programs during the week (no matter what device or channel)?

DATA IN % OF GROUPS

Card, one answer

	September 7, 2008	January 22, 2012	January 20, 2013	May 25, 2014	May 24, 2015	June 12, 2016	February 5, 2017
Almost every day	72	78	75	74	73	61	67
3-5 days a week	15	11	11	11	12	11	12
1-2 days a week	7	5	8	7	7	13	11
Less than once a week	3	2	2	2	3	4	3
	2	2	3	6	5	9	5
I don't have a TV	1	1	<1	1	<1	3	1
Difficult to answer	1	1	<1	<1	<1	<1	<1

	General population	18-30 years old	31-45 years old	46-60 years old	Over 60 years old
Almost every day	67	43	63	79	89
3-5 days a week	12	15	12	11	8
1-2 days a week	11	21	13	6	2
Less than once a week	3	8	4	1	<1
I don't watch TV programs	5	11	7	2	1
I don't have a TV	1	2	1	0	<1
Difficult to answer	<1	<1	<1	1	<1

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

Card, no more than three answers

	January 22, 2012	January 20, 2013	May 25, 2014	May 24, 2015	June 12, 2016	February 5, 2017
News	64	63	72	58	55	57
Art films	64	62	53	52	48	53
Entertainment programs	36	33	30	34	26	29
TV serials	27	29	25	26	26	27
Sports programs	24	26	20	25	24	24
Documentaries	25	23	21	24	24	24
Concerts, theater performances	27	26	22	24	16	19
Socio-political programs	16	13	19	23	20	18
Author's programs	16	15	14	16	15	16
Talk show	21	16	17	15	17	13
Educational programs	13	13	9	15	12	13
Mind games	11	11	7	10	9	10
Other	2	1	2	2	2	2
Difficult to answer	1	1	1	1	1	1

Why do you watch TV programs in the first place? Name up to three reasons.

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

	May 25, 2014	May 24, 2015	February 5, 2017
Focus on current events in our country	54	49	47
Relax, unwind, have a good time	50	43	30
Forget about everyday life, about worries and problems	20	21	24
Understand the current problems of the country and society	22	25	22
Expand your horizons, develop your mind	19	31	17
Understand the actions of politicians and statesmen	12	12	14
Understand the lives of people in other countries	11	9	11
Understand how people live in other regions of the country	12	10	11
Understand the laws of the country and how to apply them	8	10	7
Understand how to live, how to build your life	3	6	6
Represent the prospects of the country	6	8	6
Understand yourself, understand other people	5	4	5
Learn about people to look up to	4	5	3
Difficult to answer	3	3	3

Does it happen that news information on television causes you distrust, doubts? And if so, does it happen often or rarely?

DATA IN % OF GROUPS

The question was not asked to those who do not watch TV programs and who do not have a TV, 94% of respondents answered

What do you usually do when news information on television causes you distrust, doubts?

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

The question was not asked to those who never distrust news information, 71% of respondents answered. Card, any number of answers

	May 24, 2015	February 5, 2017
I search for information on the Internet on news sites	15	18
Discussing information with acquaintances, friends, relatives	14	17
Looking for information in other media (newspapers, radio)	9	10
Looking for information on the Internet on forums, blogs, social networks	6	9
Other	2	3
Usually I don't do anything special.	24	23
Difficult to answer	2	2

Some believe that in news programs, TV journalists should only convey facts, information about events. Others believe that in news programs, journalists can also evaluate facts and events. Which point of view do you prefer?

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

The question was not asked to those who do not watch TV programs and who do not have a TV, 94% of respondents answered

Do you think that over the past two or three years the quality of information, news programs on domestic television has changed for better or for worse?

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

The question was not asked to those who do not watch TV programs and who do not have a TV, 94% of respondents answered

Which TV channels do you like the most?

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

The question was not asked to those who do not watch TV programs and who do not have a TV, 94% of respondents answered. Card, no more than three answers

	January 22, 2012	January 20, 2013	May 25, 2014	May 24, 2015	June 12, 2016	February 5, 2017
First channel	52	61	63	63	48	52
Russia 1	48	55	57	57	46	43
NTV	41	49	38	42	31	36
TNT	23	24	23	26	23	21
Russia 24	5	10	20	23	17	18
STS	19	19	22	23	19	18
REN TV	10	17	16	17	17	18
Star	7	12	9	18	12	15
Channel Five	8	12	14	20	14	13
Home	9	13	9	12	12	12
Match TV	12	14	13	15	9	11
Russia K (Culture)	10	12	9	11	7	9
TV Center	6	10	9	13	8	8
Friday	4	3	3	7	9	8
TV 3	3	5	5	7	7	7
Carousel	3	4	4	7	6	5
					3	3
YU	6	1	2	3	2	3
RBC-TV	1	1	1	2	2	2
Che (Pepper)	4	7	7	9	3	2
Eurosport (Eurosport)	3	3	1	3	2	2
Life News					2	2
Euronews (Euronews)	1	2	2	3	1	2
2x2	1	2	1	2	2	1
Rain		1	1	1	0	1
Local TV channels	6	7	7	9	5	4
Satellite TV channels	2	2	2	6	2	3
Cable TV channels	5	8	3	5	4	4
Another		2	3	4	3	3
Difficult to answer	5	1	1	2	1	1

From which TV channels do you usually learn about the latest events in our country and abroad?

DATA IN % OF SURVEYS

The question was not asked to those who do not watch TV programs and who do not have a TV, 94% of respondents answered. Card, any number of answers
Until June 12, 2016, instead of the Match TV channel, there was the Rossiya 2 (Sport) TV channel, until May 25, 2014, instead of the Friday TV channel, there was the MTV channel

	May 24, 2015	June 12, 2016	February 5, 2017
First channel	68	51	58
Russia 1	58	43	47
NTV	33	20	26
Russia 24	24	18	19
REN TV	7	6	8
Channel Five	10	5	7
Star	6	3	4
TV Center	8	5	4
OTR - Public Television of Russia		1	2
Russia K (Culture)	3	1	2
Euronews (Euronews)	3	1	1
RBC-TV	2	2	1
Life News		2	1
TNT	4	2	1
STS	4	1	1
Home	2	<1	1
Match TV	5	1	1
Friday	1	<1	1
TV 3	1	<1	<1
Rain	<1	<1	<1
YU	<1	<1	<1
2x2	<1	<1	<1
Eurosport (Eurosport)	<1	<1	<1
Carousel	1	<1	<1
Che (Pepper)	1	<1	<1
Local TV channels	4	2	2
Satellite TV channels	1	<1	1
Cable TV channels	1	1	1
From other TV channels	1	2	1
Difficult to answer	4	3	2

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As soon as they don’t call him: both the contemptuous “box”, and the affectionate “tel”, and the romantic “blue screen”, and the high-flown “window on the world”. Why is it so attractive to us TV?

TV is a friend

TV How Human: he can speak, he has a face (the faces of the hosts). Sometimes it seems that he can answer our questions and guess our state of mind. At the same time, unlike real friends, the TV can be turned off as soon as he gets bored, and he does not ask for a loan. For many women, especially those burdened with family and work, watching TV becomes a surrogate for friendship.

TV is a member of the family

It is placed near the table where the whole family gathers after a hard day's work. Over time, he took the place that was previously called the "red corner". TV in human life now not just a witness, but also a participant in any domestic event.

TV - intermediary

Joint leisure in front of the screen creates the illusion of closeness. At the same time, it is not required to spend energy on penetrating into the inner world of a partner. It is enough to put cookies in front of you, pour tea and exchange a couple of meaningless phrases. After the fire at the Ostankino television tower, when television broadcasting was turned off for several days, the registry offices noted an increase in the number of applications for divorce. As soon as the “blue screen” went out, people found out with bitterness that, apart from watching the programs together, nothing connects them anymore.

TV is a rival

You got a new haircut and are waiting for approval, or, conversely, you have problems at work and you need to pour out your soul. And the husband, instead of turning to the ear, pokes his head at the screen. Gradually your irritation grows, Are you jealous, and I want to break the damn unit. True, it rarely comes to direct aggression, and the TV turns into a familiar enemy, to the machinations of which you can write off all the roughness of family life.

TV - educator

Toddlers can spend hours look without distracting adults with their whims. Teenagers hide their age-specific vulnerability by turning away from their elders towards the screen.

TV organizer

The program guide is designed to follow the natural schedule of life. In the morning you are provided with a weather forecast and information about traffic jams, in the afternoon you are occupied with “talks”, and for the coming dream they tickle your nerves with a summary of incidents. Television accompaniment is becoming so familiar that it is now difficult to figure out who is following whom: it is behind us or we are behind it.

There is a TV in every home these days. Often not even alone. Entire families spend all their free time around the blue screen.

TV is a time waster

The old phrase "Bread and circuses!" has taken on a completely different meaning. From hunger in civilized countries no longer die. The population prefers not to choose between bread and circuses. TV remote control, food and sofa are the most popular form of modern leisure.

It is impossible to stop: the series, then the news, and then the movie. Time flies by unnoticed. Unhealthy food is also imperceptibly absorbed. Watching TV, people eat without noticing the amount of food they eat.

The average resident of the country comes home from work at 6 pm and immediately turns on the TV and turns it off only after midnight. On weekends and holidays, the TV in some homes can work for days without turning off.

It is estimated that people spend 1/3 of their lives watching TV! And these same people constantly complain about the lack of time.

TV is a health thief

Now it is fashionable to lead a healthy lifestyle and play sports. At the same time, the characters of the series lead an unhealthy lifestyle: they smoke, drink and even use drugs. So at a subconscious level, the idea is laid that health care is not necessary.

Watching television for a long time worsens your eyesight. Our eyes are designed to constantly change focus, looking at the world around us. TV deprives them of this opportunity.

In addition, all diseases called "epidemics of our time" are associated with physical inactivity. Hypertension, heart attacks and strokes. Obesity and diabetes. Diseases of the veins and joints. Osteoporosis. The reason for these diseases is that people move less and less. And at the same time, they eat more and more near the TV.

Spending several hours a day watching TV, children and adults earn muscle atrophy. As a result, they find it difficult to sit, stand, and run and move at all. They have reduced stamina. The simplest actions are difficult. In this case, fatigue appears not only physical, but also psychological.

TV - loss of values

Few people think that TV cannot reflect real life. To give the plot an exciting line, the authors of the scripts resort to unexpected twists in the fate of the characters. In real life, many people lack vivid sensations. But instead of making their own life interesting and exciting, people follow the lives of others, complaining that their fate was not successful.

When the hero of the series achieves success, the illusion is often created that the person himself did not make any efforts and got everything “just like that”. Illusions are also created by various kinds of "star stories". The promotion of each "character" is usually thought out to the smallest detail. But lovers of peeping through the keyhole do not think about it.

People who constantly watch TV begin to compare their children or spouses with television characters, because on the screen the good character often has no flaws. The search for the "ideal" partner, similar to the hero from the series, ends in conflicts and loneliness.

TV - voluntary loneliness

Loneliness is bad. But the TV also locks the viewer in four walls. Moreover, people become “recluses” quite voluntarily and consciously. Some even turn off their phones to watch TV.

In modern society, television has replaced all forms of leisure for many people. Where do parents send their children when they are reluctant to solve their problems? To TV! A small child can be “fixed” for a long time in front of a luminous screen. So the TV replaces the child's mom, dad, games, books, physical activity, walks and friends.

Not a single drug, not a single disease is capable of isolating a person from society so quickly and so firmly. In some families, they practically do not talk - watching TV together replaces communication. In front of the screen, people become passive. The sense of time perception is disturbed. Reality is distorted.

Distorted Reality

The data stream from the screen is processed in a special way. He unconsciously imposes certain values ​​on people. Ask a teleman - why does he watch the news every day? He will answer that he wants to be aware of what is happening in the world. In what world?

On TV they constantly talk about war, death, catastrophes, misfortunes, natural disasters .... For one positive news, there are up to 7 negative ones. Such a stream of negativity is harmful to health. And why do you need to know about what is happening in Africa if you do not see what is happening in your own home?

The language of television is "picture" and sound. They are perceived by the right hemisphere, which controls the subconscious. Television reality changes him, causing addiction, imposing stereotypes of behavior and thinking.

Teleman portrait

Telemans are different. Some watch endless series. Others are looking for "educational" programs. The third cannot be dragged away from the criminal chronicle. There are fans of talk shows and fans of TV shows. The most addicted do not turn off the TV day or night. It works all the time, "for the background". At the same time, people can do something else at the same time.

The worst thing is when a person becomes a “zappingomaniac” and endlessly switches TV channels, sending a mess of images and sounds to his brain. These people often cannot remember what they watched, although they spend 24 hours in front of the TV. Fans of serials, on the contrary, often remember all its details. And consider the events quite plausible,

Real passions?

Many people are sure that the series accurately reflect reality. However, this is not the case at all. Television characters too often lose children, die in accidents, get sick, get attacked or die.

According to studies, more than 4% of the heroines of modern TV series die during childbirth. In fact, already in 1847-1848, after Dr. Simmelweis introduced the practice of washing hands by doctors before giving birth, the death rate of mothers in maternity hospitals was reduced to 2.5%! In the 19th century in the Moscow maternity hospital named after. Apricot maternal and infant mortality was less than 1%. And in our time, the death of a child during childbirth is less than half a percent and occurs only with such a pathology, in which earlier it did not reach childbirth at all.

So, the serials are far from the real display of events. Some people are so zombified by series and news that they transfer TV events into their own lives. Or vice versa, they go into the series completely, forgetting about real life.

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TV is a convenient way to get away from the real problems of your life. A woman may not be satisfied with her relationship with her husband or children. But she just goes ... to the TV. The same can be said about men - lying in front of the TV, you can not notice that their marriage or business is collapsing.

TV is a convenient means of psychological protection - a certain stereotype of behavior that protects against psychological troubles. Looking at the screen, you can forget about the existence of the problem and the need to solve it. But the problem won't go away. Sooner or later, a decision will have to be made. Or someone will take it without you. And it may not suit you. And the TV will be to blame.

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Many people experience a real psychological “breaking” when they refuse to watch TV. They experience pain in various parts of the body. They do not find a place for themselves, do not know where to go and what to do with themselves. TV subjugated their psyche.

To understand how much you personally depend on the TV, try to stop watching it. How long can you not approach him at all? Day? And two? What about a week? What about a month? Can you not watch it at all? You may have to spend some time looking for an interesting activity as an alternative to watching TV. But your life is worth it.

In the last few decades, watching TV has become one of the most popular leisure activities. However, researchers have found that it has a range of harmful effects on people, literally killing them. So, why is watching TV dangerous for a person?

1. TV Raises Cholesterol

In 1990, a study was conducted at the University of California that looked at children's cholesterol levels and its correlation with watching TV or playing computer games. The result was shocking: Children who watched TV for four hours a day had higher cholesterol levels and were almost four times more likely to suffer from heart disease later in life. The reason for this is that children who watched TV ate more unhealthy foods and were less likely to be physically active.

2. TV increases aggressiveness

In 1960, Professor Rowell Guzman decided to conduct a study on the influence of the media on violence among children. Ten years later, an undeniable link was found between media violence and actual violence. Children who had "seen enough of scenes of violence" behaved more aggressively.

3. TV makes kids dumber

A study conducted by Johns Hopkins University found that children who watched more than 2 hours of TV a day (especially those who watched TV in their room) scored significantly lower on standardized tests than their peers. However, the same study found that having a computer with Internet access actually increased scores.

4. TV reduces the quality of sperm

Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health have found that semen quality in men with a sedentary lifestyle, especially those who watch a lot of TV, is 44 percent lower than in men who spend little time in front of the TV. Sperm counts began to drop after watching TV for more than 20 hours a week.

5. TV turns people into criminals

A group of British researchers sampled more than 11,000 children born between 2000 and 2002 and found that those who watched TV for at least three hours a day were more likely to engage in antisocial activities later on (violence or theft). At the same time, no such statistical relationship was found in the case of children who played computer games for 3 or more hours a day.

6. TV reduces the chances of survival

A study of more than 1,500 people who received colorectal cancer treatment found that those who watched more TV before they were diagnosed were much more likely to die within five years than those who watched little TV. However, no significant association was found between patients' mortality and how often they watched television after diagnosis.

7. TV reduces sleep

A collaborative study by MassGeneral Children's Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health looked at the impact of a number of different factors during pregnancy and early childhood. In particular, it was studied how long the child was in the room with the TV on, how much time the children spent watching TV, and whether the children slept with the TV on. They found that every hour of TV watching reduced sleep by 7 minutes, and just the fact of having a TV in the bedroom reduced sleep by half an hour.

8. TV reduces speech development

While those reading this article shouldn't be concerned, two different studies have shown that the more time children spend in front of the TV, the slower they learn to talk. It was found that every hour of TV viewing contributed to a significant reduction in the number of words babies heard (by an average of 770 words per day). This, in turn, reduced the amount of vocalization in infants and slowed down their development. A similar study found that children learn to speak better when they are spoken to than when the TV is turned on.

9. TV leads to more alcohol consumption

A team of scientists from the Netherlands and Canada tested 80 young men aged 18-29. The study found that they drank an average of 1.5 more bottles of beer or wine when watching movies or commercials that featured alcohol than those who did not.

10. TV leads to early death

A study of the television habits of Australians led to the conclusion that watching TV can significantly reduce life expectancy. For example, watching TV for six hours a day can "cost" 4.8 years of life. In addition, every hour of TV viewing after the age of 25 reduces life expectancy by 22 minutes.

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