Avg Person watches 5 hours of TV a day

[MrPentatonic]

Average American watches 5 hours of TV per day

At first I thought this is this cant be true but I know alot of people who come home from work and watch TV from 6-12 then go sleep and then go to work & continue this in a cyclical fashion.

Specifically, says Nielsen, here’s the average weekly usage for ascending age groups:

2-11: 24 hours, 16 minutes.

12-17: 20 hours, 41 minutes.

18-24: 22 hours, 27 minutes.

25-34: 27 hours, 36 minutes.

35-49: 33 hours, 40 minutes.

50-64: 43 hours, 56 minutes.

65-plus: 50 hours, 34 minutes.

By ethnic groups, Nielsen finds that African Americans watch an average of 218 hours of television a month. Whites watch 155.3 hours, Hispanics an average of 123.2 hours and Asian Americans an average of 92.3 hours.

How much TV do you watch every day on avg.? Including Netflix and TV shows you watch on your laptop?

How much TV you think is too much?

 

[blockburna420]

Most of the time im on my phone and the tv is background noise

 

[EndDomination]

I don't even watch a full hour of television a day.
Yesterday was the first time I watched Netflix in a few weeks, and I caught like 45 min of an episode of House.
I may have the Fareed Zakaria show playing in the background while doing homework.
I don't even know where people are getting the time to watch more than 10 hours of television a week.

 

[Tunez]

I mostly game

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

I only watch basketball or football

Havent had cable since i was like 17


TV sucks i might watch 5 hours in one week barely

 

[Larry Lobster]

By ethnic groups, Nielsen finds that African Americans watch an average of 218 hours of television a month. Whites watch 155.3 hours, Hispanics an average of 123.2 hours and Asian Americans an average of 92.3 hours.

No wonder nikkas keep losing.

 

[Insun Park]

nikkas watch WAY too much TV

 

[RandomDudeOnColi]

I don't watch tv a lot.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

There's absolutely no way this is true. They have no way of knowing how many people in a household, or if multiple people are watching the same show, kids, etc...

Nobody I know has ever watched 5 hours of TV a day.

 

[Doomsday]

There's absolutely no way this is true. They have no way of knowing how many people in a household, or if multiple people are watching the same show, kids, etc...

Nobody I know has ever watched 5 hours of TV a day.

One football game is 3 hours. I can see it being true. I especially believe that blacks watch the most media of all ethnic groups.

 

[Darth Nubian]

I watch sports and news. I havent watched a sitcom since Martin went off

 

[MrPentatonic]

There's absolutely no way this is true. They have no way of knowing how many people in a household, or if multiple people are watching the same show, kids, etc...

Nobody I know has ever watched 5 hours of TV a day.

They ask households to participate at random and generalize from that. I had to do a study on how Nielson get their ratings and how accurate it is, Also had to acknowledge chances of bias because people who take part in this, may be avid TV watchers anyway or may do so more (or less) because they are being observed. But imo its accurate enough to make some assumptions about how much TV people watch .

I also know a lot of people who come home from work or school and watch TV until they sleep. It's quite a bad unproductive but common habit but that's how I think most TV watchers get their 5+ hours a day of TV.

 

[HandsomeBrute]

I don't even watch tv anymore.
I use netflix and watch videos on YouTube.

 

[Mike809]

Dont even have cable and the few shows i do watch , i just torrent them. TV is only use for video games.

 

[ThaBronxBully]

I don't even watch tv anymore.
I use netflix and watch videos on YouTube.

Pretty Much This

Sports, Netflix, YouTube

TV Is Trash

After Netflix I Don't Want To Wait A Week To Watch 1 Episode That Has 5 Commercial Breaks