Sentences with phrase «than watching television»

Kids (and their teachers, it turns out) spend more time per week blowing up aliens than watching television or (no surprise) doing homework.

The researchers also determined that smartphones had more of a negative effect on alertness than watching television or using a laptop.

According to Nielsen - and as their chart below shows, «Each week, more Americans tune into AM / FM radio (93 %) than watch television, or use smartphones, tablets or computers.»

Not exact matches

... when researchers interviewed more than 150 people about their recent purchases, they found that money spent on activities — such as concerts and group dinners out — brought far more pleasure than material purchases like shoes, televisions, or expensive watches.

He said that the Internet had allowed the company to «reinvent television,» by giving viewers the freedom to watch what they wanted, when they wanted it, and by allowing content producers to reach a global audience more easily than in the past.

That's by comparison to more than 15 million who watched the games on traditional television, which means that for the NFL, the Twitter deal was more or less a rounding error.

And though his track record is more complicated than what can be gleaned from watching him on television, there is one indisputable fact in his story: Kevin O'Leary is excellent at selling Kevin O'Leary.

On a recent Saturday in May, more than 30 million households in China watched a television cooking show called Taste Life.

Millennials ages 14 - 25 spend more time streaming video content than watching live television.

Why would anyone choose to watch a 2D movie or video in a VR movie theatre, when doing some would entail a far lower effective resolution and quality than watching on a regular television screen?

Households with Netflix watch significantly less traditional television than homes without it, he said.

It reads: «Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication.

Either way, come September, for the first time, Australians can no longer watch Australia's One Day or Twenty20 Internationals played in Australia on free - to - air television — with that (effectively siphoned) privilege going to the fewer than 30 per cent of Australian households subscribed to pay television.

CBS Corp. delivered stronger than expected first - quarter earnings, demonstrating why the broadcasting giant is in no hurry to merge with Viacom Inc..

The television company, which boasts the most - watched television network, CBS, surpassed Wall Street's estimates for its January through March quarter...

When one goes to a concert [or reads a book or even watches television] to relax after a busy day, the result can be a mild drowsiness - in itself pleasurable enough - rather than any spiritual uplift.

Of course the television world does not completely exclude the real world, but families watch more than 45 hours each week, and in households with cable and subscription services the figure jumps to 58 hours, while most adults spend only 40 hours at work and children spend only 30 hours in school.2.

Conservative estimates have Americans watching some 20 hours of television a week — more than that in the case of children.

Television watching is its own reward or, to put it another way, it, rather than school, is much more apt to realize the ideal of learning for its own sake.

Binge watching television shows is likely the closest we'll ever get to time travel, because there's no better way to make an whole day go by in a blur than queing up an entire season of a good series.

The poll indicates that for the three evangelical subgroups identified by the survey, 47 percent, 46 percent, and 45 percent, respectively, indicated that they either didn't watch or didn't know how much time they spent watching religious programs on television each week, and another 9 percent, 6 percent, and 5 percent indicated they watched for less than one hour each week.

(12) This trend has been found among the elderly as well; (13) persons in lower - income households also watch considerably more television — an additional half - hour a day in the fall of 1976 — than the average for all individuals.

When persons watching television are motivated to change their attitude toward religious faith, even to make a religious commitment of some sort, most frequently they integrate that decision within their existing environment rather than changing their environment.

Hilton in his study of the use of television worship services by the members of the lrvington Presbyterian Church found that 9 percent of the members of that church have stayed home on occasion to watch television worship services rather than gone to the local church to worship, and 3 percent of the members said the television worship services had caused them to be less involved in their local church.

To appeal to sports fans, each restaurant has more than 40 high - definition televisions at its locations that allow guests to watch various events.

Television buys are for morning and evening network news programs, which Fish thinks people tend to watch live rather than time - delay.

The WatchESPN coverage gets started a little later than the Masters website, with its coverage corresponding with when the television airing begins, right at 3 p.m.. There's an encore presentation you can watch online on Friday night, too.

I'm sure you'll have to argue this point with the more than 7,000 midshipmen and cadets, not to mention the thousands of football fans who attend the game and millions more who watch it on television.

But football managers have their guesses tested in a much more direct way than most of us, and the really good ones get to have their guesses tested in front of a live audience of tens of thousands, with millions more watching on television.

Sports Media Watch reports that NBC claims it is the most - watched live F1 race in US television, but «that was based on fast - nationals that were 5 % higher than the final viewership total».

They'll actually be able to watch more live golf than the television coverage provides.

I get what you are saying.If you watch him on televison he does not look like backup quality for arsenal but hey as people here like it if you use his statistics he looks more than capable as a backup.This should tell you that statistics and reality can be different.He looks terrible on television to be honest.

Ok so his stats are good for a backup yh i get that.But listen if watch his game television you will see that he is so bad.Let me ask a question.What if Arsenal bought a world class striker and he got injured before the league started.Many people in the world who are Arsenal fans would start wailing.While's those are the same people saying that he is good enough for backup.Is the backup striker not to cover up strongly for your injured starter.So why would people wail when they say he is backup and is more than capable of doing a job.This is contradiction at its best.

That match never happened, thanks to the scraggly - haired, shaggy - bearded man sitting in solitary in Delaware County Prison in Thornton, Pa., who is not allowed to watch television, listen to the radio or read magazines and newspapers, and who takes little more than tea and crackers in his 69 - square - foot cell, a place that must seem a long way from his 800 - acre estate in Newtown Square, Pa..

Today the match is watched by more than 25,000 spectators and over 500,000 television viewers.

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

Ok, all you holier - than - thou moms who just got on their soap box to preach about the ill - effects of television let me reassure you that my kids only watch what I allow them (and been pre-screened by me) and only for the recommended 2 hours a day (contrary to what you may have read in my What Not To Say To SAHM post).

Let your child see you enjoy reading and learning rather than spending all of your time watching television.

I think he's probably watched a television screen for less than 30 minutes his whole life, and he's almost 6 - months - old.

To be sure, this approach means that our date nights tend to be late nights, and we're paying people somewhat expensive hourly rates for not doing much more than studying or watching television.

Because children who spend much less time watching the tube have been found to be more socially competent, as well as more academically competent, and not to mention more creative and imaginative than their television - educated peers.

This is better than buying them smart devices or investing in a television set to watch cartoons and other animation.

Television watching, whether it is Baby Einstein or Sesame Street, is something that can be fun for a little one and be part of life's events rather than something that is an either - or proposition.

Rather than sitting down and watching television with their children, for example, they simply block certain channels.

I was reminded of their suggestion to parents «to all but ban television watching for children less than 2 years of age.»

Rather than just watching sporting events on television, young people should participate in age - appropriate sports or games.

And children who suck their thumbs when they're alone, such as while they're watching television or for a few minutes when they're trying to fall asleep, are less likely to suffer social rejection than children who do it in public.

Currently, 90 % of parents report that their children younger than 2 years watch some form of electronic media.2 By 3 years, almost one - third of children have a television in their bedroom.3 Parents report that they view television as a peacekeeper and a safe activity for their children while they are preparing dinner, getting ready for work, or doing household chores.3 Many parents report feeling better knowing that the programming their children watch has been described as educational.

Twenty - nine percent of children 2 to 3 years of age have a television in their bedroom, and 30 % of parents have reported that watching a television program enabled their children to fall asleep.3 Although parents perceive a televised program to be a calming sleep aid, some programs actually increase bedtime resistance, delay the onset of sleep, cause anxiety about falling asleep, and shorten sleep duration.41 Specifically, in children younger than 3 years, television viewing is associated with irregular sleep schedules.42 Poor sleep habits have adverse effects on mood, behavior, and learning.

The only thing we use our television for anymore is watching YouTube videos of Liza Minnelli on repeat, because it's the only thing that keeps the baby quiet and anything is better than listening to him cry.

There could be several factors causing your child to have more gas or indigestion than usual: Roaming around during meals Many time - crunched parents today find that we'll do anything to get our kids to eat right, including letting them meander around house, watch television, or even roughhouse during meals.