Reading USA Today

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 1 10:21:37 PST 1998


Carrol Cox wrote:


>According to an article in the Business Section of the Chicago Tribune
>(Nov. 1), 70% of U.S. households are linked to cable. (Do *all* U.S.
>households have TV of any kind? The article -- concerned with another
>topic to which cable is relevant -- does not indicate whether it is
>dealing with *all* households or all households *with TV*.)

According to the Statistical Abstract, over 98% of U.S. households have TVs, and of those, 93% are color. Only 94% have a phone, so the TV evidently comes first.

Doug



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