Household Penetration of TV > Free TV is in 99.7 per cent of Australian homes > 68 per cent of homes have two or more televisions Click here for related chart Digital TV Penetration > Digital television is in more than 60% of Australian homes Click here for related chart Time spent viewing > According to the ABS, watching TV is Australia’s most popular leisure activity > Australians watch, on average over 3 hours of television a day > The vast majority of TV viewing is spent watching Free TV Click here for related chart Share of viewing > Australia has one of the strongest free-to-air markets in the world > Free-to-air channels account for about 83 per cent of all metro and regional nightly TV viewing Click here for related chart Ratings > No other medium consistently aggregates mass audiences > In every survey period, Free TV's top 40 programs delivered audiences in excess of 1.4 million viewers > The top 20 programs on Free TV in 2009 delivered audiences in excess of 2.3 million viewers Click here for related chart Advertising > Research shows Free TV attracts the highest rates of advertising recall > Consumers say Free TV has the most memorable and the most entertaining ads of any medium Click here for related chart See our Stats & Graphs section for more facts about the power of television.