EXCLUSIVE: Do Online Viewers Watch Less TV? New Poll's Findings Might Surprise You

9:09 PM PST 11/14/2010 by Georg Szalai

A Nielsen study examines whether people who watch content on the Web have given up any of their TV viewing as a result.

NEW YORK -- Pay TV industry folks have heatedly debated this fall whether consumers are dropping their cable or other TV subscriptions to watch more TV content online. A new study by Nielsen, commissioned by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, argues that most people who watch at least some content from the Web on their TV sets are "cord keepers" rather than "cord cutters."