What are we counting as “watching TV?”
If we’re talking about traditional broadcast or cable TV, or online services like YouTube TV or Hulu live TV, etc. it’s basically 0 and has been that way for years. Pretty much the only things I watch that way are the Superbowl, random bits of the Olympics, maybe the ball dropping on new years Eve if I’m at a party that I’m not hosting, some of the world series if my local team happens to make it, the very occasional breaking news story, and whatever my parents have on when I visit them.
If we’re talking about sitting in front of the TV streaming something, it’s significantly more.
If we want to split hairs, I work every other weekend, so on those weekends it’s still pretty much 0. On weekends or other days that I’m off (the way my schedule works, my “weekends” might also be a Monday & Tuesday or a Wednesday & Thursday,) it could be a few hours. I work a weird night shift (3pm-3am) and I usually pretty much keep to that same schedule on my days off, while my wife and pretty much everyone else I know works a normal 9-5 kind of job, so it’s usually pretty much just me and the dog left to entertain ourselves between about 10pm to maybe about 4 or 5 AM when I go to bed, and often a good chunk of that time will be spent in front of the TV in some fashion, sometimes actively watching stuff, sometimes just to have background noise while I work on other stuff.
I won’t usually spend much if any time watching TV during the day until about 6PM or so, then my wife and I will usually watch something while we eat dinner.
I haven’t watched broadcast TV in years. I’ll regularly watch the main news show in my country but I’ll watch it on YouTube, just so I can skip forward if some right wing fuckwit spouts their bullshit.
Zero.
I only see one friend who watches television. It’s the only moment I watch it too. Well, grandma too, but I don’t visit them that often.
I stopped watching TV years ago when I felt that there were too many commercials.
Like sit and watch hours, or does emotional support background noise count too?
Ooh I’m pregnant about to burst and pretty uncomfortable, so I am having a lot of screen time while I stay off of my feet and try to stay distracted from the discomfort. I’d say six hours on each day is not uncommon. Two hours at brunch time and four at night. And then I’m not counting the 4 hours possible added in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep from discomfort - I’m not really watching but I have reruns on.
Also, of course all of this is streaming, which imo absolutely is TV
Sat - we’ll typically watch a movie, which may be at the cinema or, if not, then on a TV via my Plex setup. Sun - we may watch a couple of 50min episodes of something, again on a TV from my Plex collection.
Not sure if you’d count both - or either - of those as watching TV.
I only watch television nowadays during major televised events, such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympic Games, and the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside their respective spinoffs too (but I rarely watch those).
Other than that, my telly stays off virtually all the time.
20 min maybe
One or two hours at most, sometimes zero. I asked my wife recently as to when did we watch anything on TV that wasn’t recorded or streamed. It’s been months. Most things watched on the TV is streamed via Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ITVx.
We’ve never had satellite, no cable, but just use streaming and digital terrestrial Freeview. The TV is pretty much an extension of our mobile phones.
Maybe like… 3 or 4 hours.
Probably about an hour.
OMG! From past few weeks my screentime is more than 20+ hours. Binge watching movies and shows
Is it a motorsport weekend? Might park my arse in front of the TV all day Saturday and Sunday.
If not, just a movie with the kids and that’s likely it.
I haven’t watched television in years. YouTube is my main source of entertainment, closely followed by pirated TV shows and movies running through Kodi.
I don’t even own a television.
So zero TV.
In short - about 4-5 hours over those two days, and none the rest of the week.
In long - It depends, daytime we just listen to music but Saturday and Sunday are the days I watch TV. If I have “a show” (like we recently finished Scavengers Reign) we watch a couple of those each night; otherwise maybe a movie or couple episodes of Clone Wars as we are watching those too.
I’m probably the least TV watching of the household, though.
ETA: I’m interpreting this question as ‘big screen’ time, not literal broadcast TV. I see someone else said none because they only do streaming? Yes we only do streaming, that is what I mean by TV watching.
