<Media statistics.
I have been able to compile the following. I will post the number of
television stations as a clarification.
Household newspaper subscriptions.
1920 ? 1.34
1997 ? 0.54 subscriptions per household
Today - 55% of adults read a weekday paper, 63% read a Sunday paper.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:59Q7DD24AqkJ:www.class.uidaho.edu/jamm100/ppt/Newspapers.ppt+%22newspaper+subscriptions%22+%22per+household%22&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=1
1986 ? 0.67
Source: The bigger picture. The Cycle of Media Dominance.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:tlxAOjhLCYIJ:www.bonneyresearch.com/includes/Cycle%2520of%2520media%2520dominance.pdf+%22subscriptions+per+household%22+newspapers&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=12
Newspaper readership trends 1964 to 1997
Source: AAP
http://www.naa.org/marketscope/databank/index.htm
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Magazines
1987 ? 11,593 titles
Up 5% from 1982
Source: Ad spending concentrated among few: some advertisers report
substantial shifts in magazine spending
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n7_v17/ai_6503342
In 2005, there were 22,054 magazines.
In 2005 there were 166 banking and finance titles.
In 2005 there were 350 health and fitness titles.
Source: National Directory of Magazines.
http://www.magazine.org/editorial/editorial_trends_and_magazine_handbook/1145.cfm
In 1988 there were 14, 651 magazines.
In 1996, there were 30,160 magazines.
In 1988 there were 108 banking and finance titles.
In 1996 there were 195 banking and finance titles.
In 1998 there were 169 health titles.
In 1996 there were 469 health titles.
This site gives figures for 1988 to 2005.
Source: National Directory of Magazines.
http://www.magazine.org/editorial/editorial_trends_and_magazine_handbook/4458.cfm
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Books
New titles in 2004 ? 195,000 Source: Bowker
New title in 1996 ? 68,000 Source: Lyman & Varian
http://www.caslon.com.au/statsnote5.htm
1980 ? 42,377
1990 ? 46,738
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau 2001)
http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub103/appendix1.html
1986
Number of books published ? 51,000
Source: WSU libraries.
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/general/environ-factors.html
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Number of radio stations
2004 ? 13,838
1980 ? 8748
1990 ? 10631
Source: Arbitron.
http://www.arbitron.com/downloads/radiotoday05.pdf
1999 ? 12,876
Source: Arbitron.
http://www.arbitron.com/downloads/radiotoday99.pdf
Number of radio stations in the US.
1970 ? 6,519
1980 ? 7,871
1990 ? 10,770
2000 ? 12,717
Source: The Future of Music Coalition.
http://www.medialiteracy.net/pdfs/FMCradiostudy.pdf#search=%22%22number%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20the%20us%22%20%22in%201986%22%22
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Newspaper ownership
Less than a fifth of newspapers are independently owned.
http://www.radionewsweb.com/2004-09.html
2004- 281 of the 1500 daily newspapers are independently owned.
Source: Jim Hightower.
http://www.fsrn.org/hightower_letter_12-04.html
Just after World War II, four out of five U.S. newspapers were
independently owned. By 1989, only one in five was not the property of
a chain. In 1981, 20 corporations controlled most of the nation's
11,000 magazines. Only seven years later, the number shrank to three
corporations.
Source: Merger Mania in the Media. By John H. McManus.
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v7n1/mediacon.html
By 1986, 72% of U.S. daily newspapers were owned by 15 corporations.
Source: Understanding Media Literacy. J. Lynn McBrien.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1744-7984.2005.00003.x?cookieSet=1
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Cable tv penetration surpassed 50% in 1987.
Source: ESPN?s Action packed reel. By Stewar Schley.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA450688.html?display=Supplement
By the late 1990?s the majority of american household were cable subscribers.
Source: St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture. By Robert C. Sickels.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100303>
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