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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

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.

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 don't even own a television.

So zero 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.

Probably about an hour.

My mind is blown by the number of people in this thread outright bragging that they watch 0 TV ever, that they only stream Netflix on their computers.

Assuming we are talking about watching shows and movies, in any platform, on any device, I'd say 1- 1.5 in the summer and 3-4 (per day) in the winter. I feel weird watching stuff while the sun is out, it's like I'm staying home sick from school. Spring/summer I'm usually out gardening until it's well dark, then a shower, then a show then sleep. In fall and winter it's nice to be cozy and watch something after dinner until bedtime. I'm usually also doing a puzzle or knitting, or some other small craft that doesn't take much attention.

Maybe like... 3 or 4 hours.

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.

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.

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.

4 or 6 depending how many episodes we watch during lunch and dinner.

Probably 6 hours

Two or three, if we include online videos. Two, if we exclude stuff I come across on my phone.

TV is pretty dead for me.

I haven't had a cable subscription in years.

The only times I've pulled out over-the-air broadcasts in recent years is for the Rose Parade and election night coverage.

And I've kind of cooled on the Rose Parade -- they don't have the like of complicated mechanical floats that they used to.

And fivethirtyeight.com has pretty good online election coverage.

Five hours.

We constantly have something playing, even when we're doing something else. So it usually isn't the center of attention, but we are absorbing it.

Probably around 8 but I'm really only paying attention for 5.

Nothing on Saturday but Sunday is 11am-10pm. I’ll let you guess why.

Do you mean Watch TV as in DVD/streaming, or do you mean watch broadcast TV?

If its Broadcast TV, None. Ever since Tochinoshin retired from sumo I dont watch broadcast anymore. short of like, breaking news or something.

If by DVD/Streaming.. I dont know, maybe an hour in the evening? I have something on all the time, but most entirely for background noise and not being watched.