How much television viewing is done by members of the average U.S.
household in a given day and, most importantly week? The data should
be for either 2004 or the 2003-2004 TV season.

According to AC Nielsen, in 2003, the average American household
watches close to 8 hours (7.58 hours) of television per day, or 53
hours, 6 minutes per week.

They also stated that women watch 5:05 per day, men watch 4:29 per day
and children 3:14 per day

Search Strategy

United State television viewing statistics

References:

TV Basics: Time Spent Viewing ? Households
http://www.tvb.org/rcentral/mediatrendstrack/tvbasics/08_TimeViewingHH.asp

TV Basics: Time Spent Viewing ? Persons
http://www.tvb.org/rcentral/mediatrendstrack/tvbasics/09_TimeViewingPersons.asp

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Request for Answer Clarification by drbruce-ga on 12 Jul 2004 17:10 PDT

Thank you. I actually had these answers already from the same site.
I'll be happy to pay you (this is a first for me) but wonder, given
your abilities, if you can find anything other than averages. I
realized I didn't post this but I am trying to categorize heavy,
medium and light TV users. This means something like this for
individuals rather than household. You did a fine job:

This is what I need (any breakdown by gender or age is a bonus):

<1 hour per week ?%
1-<5 hours per week ?%
6-<10 hours per week ?%
etc.

This is what I'm working with:

About how many hours PER WEEK do you spend watching television 
NOW?
(Open End)

0-10 Hrs per week
11-20
21-40
40+

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Request for Answer Clarification by drbruce-ga on 13 Jul 2004 09:20 PDT

Did you see my request?

BK

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Clarification of Answer by tar_heel_v-ga on 13 Jul 2004 12:03 PDT

Let me see what I can find.

THV

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Request for Answer Clarification by drbruce-ga on 14 Jul 2004 04:31 PDT

Thank you.

BK

The answer was good, but one I already had. The researcher agreed to
find more but didn't. I only paid $2 (more than worth it) but now I
see that I could have tipped him/her if there had been the follow-up.