The given chart illustrates the number of households in Somerville who used various types of technology to watch TV over 10 years from 2004.
Overall, while an uptrend was seen in the households watching TV by using the internet and satellite, the opposite pattern happened to the other two technologies, broadcast and cable. Also noteworthy is that cable had become the largest technology used by families since 2010.
In 2004, the broadcast led others to use it for watching TV, landing at approximately 10000 households. Thereafter, its data declined considerably throughout the surveyed period. The fall to just 15 000 households relegated broadcast from the first position to the final rank. Undergoing a similar decreasing trend, albeit at much fluctuated, the figure for cable witnessed a gradual increase, reaching nearly 120000 using it in 2008, before experiencing a significant fall to 60 000 families at the end of the period.
The trajectories observed in the other technologies follow a contrasting pattern compared to the trends seen in the aforementioned technologies. In 2004, the satellite was the third most used technology with 70 000 families using it for watching TV. A steady growth of 40 000 households experienced in the number of satellite users which brought it to claim the second rank in 2014. Similarly, despite starting at the lowest rank at roughly 10 000 users, the internet remarkably went up during 5 next years. Remaining stable climb, the internet overtook the first position of technology used to watch TV, peaking at over 190000 households in 2014.