How much time do Americans over 2 spend watching TV?

Who knows where the time goes? A new survey by the Nielsen Company says that a lot of it goes to watching television: the current average for Americans 2 years old and up is 4 hours 49 minutes a day, a record. This leaves us pondering many things, including, Where’s the remote? But also interesting is that the figure is almost 20 percent higher than the one from 10 years ago, when we watched 4 hours and 6 minutes.