TV and Internet are complementary, says TVB

TORONTO - “Television and the internet enhance each other,” said Theresa Treutler, president and CEO of the Television Bureau of Canada (TVB). “It is not a matter of competition, but rather one of synergies.” The bureau released the BBM Analytics’ Spring RTS survey this morning which showed heavy users of the Internet (37.4 hours per week on average) watch an almost identical amount of television as the average person aged 12-plus. The amount of viewing, 24 hours of television each week, changes little regardless of internet usage, finds the report. According to a June, 2008 BBM Analytics omniVU survey commissioned...