This article examines adoption of television in light of McCombs’ principle of relative constancy and Rogers’ work on diffusion of innovations. It reveals a normal pattern of reallocation of consumer resources from old media to the new one, but also a temporary diversion of resources from non‐media uses during early adoption.
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