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Could you live without television for a week? That's what millions of people do every April as part of TV Turnoff
Week, which is organized by anti-television groups like NoTV.com and White Dot.
'Sure, TV can sometimes be fun and exciting, especially when you're tired at the end of the day,' says Rudy
Matthews form NoTV.com, but most of the time it's just boring. We want people to turn off the TV for a week and
do something more interesting instead."
You may be surprised how much television we watch. The average American family watches TV for 7 hours and
40 minutes every day and British men watch 27 hours a week (British women watch 'only' 24 hours). This means
we spend over ten of our life watching
TV - what a frightening fact!
Many people are worried about how much TV children watch. Every American child sees 16,000 murders on TV
before they are 18 and 20,000 adverts every year. Teacher Susan Walsh thinks this is a problem. 'Children in the
USA spend more time watching TV than in school and that's very worrying."
TV Turnoff Week started in the USA in 1995 and now happens
every year in the UK, France, Holland and Australia,
More than 25 million people
have turned off their TV so why don't you do the same?
Millions of people turn their TVs off
27
20,000
Hours of IV watched by men
24
Murders on TV children see
16,000
Adverts en TV children see
25
Hours of TV watched by women​