The chart illustrates the average time children spent watching television, covering the period between 1950 and 2000.
Overall, 1960 saw an increasingly common number of hours of children’s television viewing, which fell in 1980 but then rose in 1990 and dipped by 2000 throughout the period.
In detail, children’s television viewing began at around less than 1 hour in 1950, rising steadily to a peak of approximately 4 hours in 1990 and declining toward the end of the period.
As for annual data, 1980 had the highest number of hours students spent watching television. Although the number dropped slightly by 2000, it remained significantly higher than in the earlier decades. This trend may be attributed to the increasing availability of television sets in households during the mid to late 20th century. However, the slight decline after 1990 could be due to the rise of alternative entertainment sources, such as video games and computers, which started to gain popularity around that time.