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Abstract
This experiment randomly assigned 63 undergraduate students to one of three conditions: large screen television with cabinet mounted speakers, conventional size television screen with cabinet mounted speakers, and small screen (2-inch diagonal) television with audio delivered via earbud headphones, to test the efficacy of screen size and audio delivery system in learning the facts from television news. The study hypothesized that the enhanced attention to the information-rich audio track created by use of earbud headphones would produce memory among subjects in the small screen condition equivalent to the two larger screen conditions. Results supported the hypothesis.