4,000 channels and nothing’s on

Europeans have nearly 4,000 television channels to choose from but less and less quality programming to watch, according to a report released Tuesday by a European watchdog group.

The Open Society Institute’s report said television remains the primary source of information for most Europeans, even as programming is becoming less informative and more sensational.

The institute analyzed television ownership, content and regulation in 20 European countries. It found a drop in quality of news reporting in countries where a few companies often control a country’s entire television market and those that have opened up quickly to a flood of commercial broadcasters.