More TV sets in homes than people

It's official; television has taken over -- literally.

According to Nielsen Media Research the average American home has 2.73 TV sets, the average American home has 2.55 people. The fact that televisions are in places they weren't before, i.e. buses, airports and elevators and the fact flat-screens can be placed where cubed televisions cannot is attributed for the rise in television ownership.

"It's really just a matter of where your living takes place, what rooms you tend to spend your time in," Rick Melen, a facilities manager told the Associated Press on Thursday. Melen has three television sets in his house of two people. "Other appliances you can move from room to room but if you have cable, you can't move a television."

The Nielsen report also found half of American homes have three television sets or more, where as only 19 percent have just one.