One-quarter of your Life watching Television

TV Viewing Habits in Canada

Digital Home Canada: Canadian adults (18 and over) watch more TV than children, an average of 28.8 hours a week in a full year. This works out at almost 1,500 hours of television viewing each year, including an estimated 25,000 commercials.

Statistics Canada: The average Canadian watches 21 hours of television per week during Fall/Autumn.

Most TV is watched in Quebec (23.8 hours per week) and least in Alberta (19.4 hours per week).

Female Canadians watch more television than males — 25.6 vs 20.9 hours a week. Females watch more reality tv and soaps and males watch more sport.

One-quarter of your Life watching Television

If we assume each adult is awake 16 hours a day, or 5840 hours a year, then the 1,500 hours of TV watched by the average Canadian adult each year works out at just over one-quarter of their waking hours watching television.

Watching TV in the bathroom

Canadians spend 37 percent of their TV watching time watching Canadian produced programmes and 63 percent watching foreign programmes.

Half of Canadians have a TV in the main bedroom.

128,000 Canadian households have TVs in the bathroom! (Now we know why newspaper sales are declining!)

References and Further Reading

http://www.sharp.ca/pdf/release_LED_Survey_FactSheet_English_07_31_09.pdf

Fall Television viewing figures

Television viewing by type of programme

Annual TV viewing figures