Americans are turning off their sets
But viewers might be watching in a different way
By DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Maybe they're outside in the garden. They could be playing softball. Or perhaps they're just plain bored.

In TV's worst spring in recent memory, an alarming number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months: More than 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox than at the same time last year, statistics show.

Everyone has a theory to explain the plummeting ratings: early daylight-saving time, more reruns, bad shows, more shows being recorded or downloaded or streamed. the rest