Band 6+: Below is a chart showing how many hours per week the average person spent on various kinds of media, including watching TV, surfing on the Internet, listening to the radio, and reading printed material. The years covered are from 1990 to 2005.

The line graph illustrates the average number of hours weekly spent on various genres of media per person from 1990 to 2005.

Overall, television and printed material witnessed a downward trend while the remaining kinds of media namely Internet and radio had an upward trend. The outstanding feature from the graph is that Internet exceeded radio and printed to rank the second position at the end of the period.

Looking at the graph, there was a stead drop in the number of hours spent on television between 1990 and 2000, and it went down considerably to over 15 hours in 2005. Although the number of hours which people spent on television decreased continuously over the period, it remained the highest form of media. Compared to television, Internet’s hours started at the lowest point. Most people did not spend their time on it. This number stayed unchanged in nearly the first 5 years before it witnessed a slight increase about over the period 10 years. After 2000, the number of hours spent on Internet overtook Radio and Printed’s hours, standing at 15 by 2005, which narrowed the gap between Internet and television.

In 1990, printed material was quite popular, however, the number hours spent on printed declined moderately, under 5 hours. Meanwhile, radio’s hours remained stable and it was higher than printed material, at 5 in 2005.