UK families are more likely to watch TV together now than they have been in over a decade, according to a study.
Communications regulator Ofcom said 91% of adults watched
their main TV set once a week - up from 88% in 2002 - but their
attention may be distracted.
It said the popularity of smartphones and tablets was taking teens out of bedrooms back into family rooms.
Most family members now multi-tasked while sitting in front of the TV, the survey of 3,700 over 16s found.
Far from technology pulling family time apart, it said, the
huge growth in mobile was actually having the opposite effect. Family
members are being brought together just as they were in the 1950s when a
TV was likely to be a home's only screen.
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