By Robyn Bahr One year ago, at 2 o’clock in the morning ... Truthfully, I have a TV show playing in the background when I’m cooking, crafting, tidying, exercising, folding laundry, washing ...

Background TV was especially common in certain populations. Children under the age of 2, African-American children, children living in poverty and kids with less-educated parents had the highest l ...

The first nationally representative effort of its kind found that the average American child 8 months to 8 years old is exposed to 232.2 minutes of “background TV” daily. African American kids ...

And your kids might be getting more exposure to such background TV than you think, a new study finds. The researchers found that the average American kid was exposed to 232.2 minutes of background ...

Background TV is defined as content designed for older ... recommendation discouraging media exposure for children under 2 years of age. While previously the guidelines focused on foreground ...

Make more shows like this.” She’s not wrong. I’m always baffled by the snobbery toward background TV. Streamers prefer to call it “second-screen content,” aka the kind of shows you pick ...