6.The spending per person per year for TV.
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CONSUMER SPENDING PER PERSON PER YEAR($) 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Total 570.29 622.32 645.10 683.33 727.90 774.52 815.59 852.93 885.31 Television 167.38 181.71 194.63 210.58 225.34 241.30 255.18 269.18 282.17 Broadcast TV - - - - - - - - - Cable and satellite TV 167.38 181.71 194.63 210.58 225.34 241.30 255.18 269.18 282.17 -Basic 125.77 135.61 146.73 158.94 168.75 178.64 187.65 195.62 202.64 -Premium 41.61 46.10 47.90 51.64 56.58 62.66 67.54 73.56 79.53
Data Resource: FCC Annual Report 2003
From these data we can see that the spending on media has kept increasing since 1998 and the spending on TV also increased. We also found that the percentage of spending on TV of the whole spending on media decreased year by year. I think there are maybe two reasons. The first is the maturity of TV technology and the decreasing price of TV set and TV service. The second reason maybe is the large emerging new media technologies and their high price.