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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • Bro you remind me of the convo I had at a coffee shop. I went in and asked for a cup of coffee and the cashier asked which one would you like cappuccino, flat white. Tall black and few more options. I just wanted a regular good old coffee. That very day I went to the shops and got myself a coffee machine.

  • 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.

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