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Weekly time spent watching TV in Canada 2016-2017, by age

Average weekly time spent watching television in Canada in 2016/2017 broadcast year, by age group (in hours)

The data shows the average weekly time spent watching television in Canada in the 2016/2017 broadcast year, broken down by age group. An adult in Canada, between the ages of 18 to 34, spent an average of 16.2 hours a week watching TV in the measured period.

TV consumption in Canada - additional information According to the most recent data, Canadians spent 581 minutes a day with major media, which is close to ten hours of daily media time. Taking a deeper look at the specific media split, on average, adults in the country spent 24 minutes with print media, 94 minutes listening to the radio, 202 minutes watching TV, and the biggest portion of time – 261 minutes – consuming digital media of all sorts.

Persons 2+ 25.1
Kids 2-11 years 16.8
Teens 12-17 years 14.3
18+ 27
18-24 years 16.1
18-34 years 16.2
18-49 years 18.1
25-54 years 20.3
55+ 39.2