While the first television demonstration took place in 1927, 9% of American households owned a TV in 1950. The number of TV households has dramatically changed by the year 2000, when, according to the estimates, 98% of American households had at least one TV. In 2019, Nielsen's National Television Household Universe found that 119.9 million households owned a TV in season 2018/19.
Darker colors on the map represent the highest television usage. According to the map, the highest rate of television ownership/usage is found in North America.
The movement where people from or with ancestors from 21 Central and South American countries that were once former colonies of Spain were grouped together speaks to dynamics underlying involuntary ethnicity. This process divides people into racial classification where they are explicitly or implicitly ranked on a social worth’s scale.