How Much Television do you Watch?

[[R_H]]

I can tell you that one of the things that is putting me off of broadcast/cable TV is the constant repetition in the daily schedules: the same fucking programmes airing three, four, and even five different times a day. Take BBC America, for instance, which once actually did show a lot of neat British programmes and a nice mix of them as well: comedies, dramas, action/adventure, documentaries. Now, it's just about all reality shows all the goddamned time and it is, for the most part, unwatchable now. They've taken to showing a movie in three back-to-back airings on some Saturdays or Sundays, which is fine if you want to see that movie (and assuming that you don't already have it on DVD uncut, of course) but when it crowds out any other programme that could air, it becomes annoying. Many of the other cable networks aren't much better anymore either. Variety is dead in programming now. It's just the same shit looped endlessly.

It's starting to happen here in Europe as well, but at least not (yet) back to back. I remember TBS used to do something similar, where they'd show a couple of movies, and then the same movies later that day or even in the next time slot. Daytime TV is just terrible on both continents though.

[Majin Gojira]

Including shows watched online and background "White Noise" television (which generally consists of the Discovery Channel and its ilk), it gets upwards to 30 hours or so a week. I erred on the greater extreme and chose 30 to 40 hours.

Usually it's 3 hours a day in the evenings with a little more on weekends (Damn you, Adult Swim!).

[Sam Or I]

Not as an easy question as it was 10-20 years ago.

Broadcast TV- I don't get broadcast TV, so I am going say 2-4 hours a week for this catagory. Me and a couple friends go to a micro-brewery and watch the 49ers games.

Recorded Media- 4-6 hours, about 3 movies a week.

Shows over the internet- Various, but maybe 2 hours a week.

Laundry day and I go over to my parents, ad another 4-6 hours of Broadcast TV.

Edit:
I am one of the few people who should actually watch MORE television. (I sometimes make local TV commercials as a home business) It has been my new years resolution for the past 2 years, but I cannot bring myself to do it. It gets sooooooo boring.

[Ma Deuce]

I would have to say essentially none, certainly much less than 3 hours. Obviously I don't consider playing console games to be "watching TV".

[Raw Shark]

I dropped my cable when I moved about a year and a half ago and haven't missed it, but I still have and use a set that plays VHS and I've actually managed to gain functional TV sets in that time due to the practices of my (mostly student) neighbors and this strange little compulsion to keep them that I'm developing.