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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 02 > DVRs may be more friend than foe to TV

DVRs may be more friend than foe to TV

Nearly half of DVR viewers are still sitting through commercials

By Bill Carter / The Bulletin
November 2, 2009

In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder.

The reason is not simply that more households own DVRs — 33 percent compared with 28 percent at this point in 2008 — helping....

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