Consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere are spending less time...

Consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere are spending less time watching broadcasts live and more on streaming TV online, Ericsson said Friday. In America, “the majority of families combined TV viewing with the use of Twitter, Facebook, texting, voice calls and forum discussions about what they watched,” said Anders Erlandsson, an Ericsson ConsumerLab adviser. “This is particularly the case when watching reality shows and sports.” The company interviewed about 13,000 people in that country, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Russia, Spain, the U.K. and elsewhere.