WASHINGTON - Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide group that helps addicts stop drinking, may also help drive down the number of murders in a community, Canadian researchers reported Sunday.

An increase of one AA member per 100,000 people was followed by a drop of 0.3 to 0.5 percent in Ontario’s homicide rate.

For 2006, TNS Media Intelligence is forecasting 12.9% growth in Spanish-language media, cmpared to 4.9% for all U.S. media.

• Top 10 Hispanic Local TV Markets
  1. Los Angeles
  2. New York
  3. Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
  4. Houston
  5. Chicago
  6. Dallas-Ft. Worth
  7. San Antonia
  8. San Francisco
  9. Phoenix
  10. Harlingen, TX
      

• Top 10 Advertisers in Spanish-Language Spot TV
  by measured U.S. spot TV ad spending

There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people.  Half of American homes have three or more TVs, and only 19 percent have just one.

• In the average home, a television set is turned on for more than a third of the day -- eight hours, 14 minutes, Nielsen said.
• The average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day, Nielsen said.