Web overtakes newspapers in Europe

The main factors affecting Internet use are age and broadband access, said the report, entitled "European Media Consumption Consumer Survey 2006".

So for example France, which has the highest rates of broadband household access, also registers the highest average hours spent online whereas Germany ranks lowest in both cases.

But Germany has the highest weekly TV consumption time at 14 hours due to widespread availability of free-to-air multi-channel TV.

The Internet has overtaken newspapers and magazines as Europeans' main source of news and feature-type information, according to a new study.

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