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It’s no big surprise that Americans watch more TV than any other country in the world. Our lifestyles and the fact that most U.S. homes have a television is probably the reason we are at the top of the charts. I know I like to watch TV and probably spend 40 hours at least each week watching television. I have to see my sports and I can’t afford to buy tickets and see them play in person. TV makes it affordable for sports fans like me to follow their favorite professional or college teams. If my local high school played their football and basketball games on TV; then I would be watching them too.

Movies is another reason that causes so many Americans to build up time in front of the tube. Since Hollywood is the leading place in the world to make movies, it’s only reasonable to think they would be producing movies that U.S. citizens wanted to see. I would have never guessed the 2nd leading country when it comes to viewing TV. It seems the people living in Turkey like to watch their TV sets almost as much as we do in the USA. The next countries, after the USA and Turkey, in order from greatest to least would be Italy, Belgium, Japan, Spain, Portugal, and Australia. It’s interesting to see that the UK, Canada, or China are not listed high on this list. I would have guessed these countries. Perhaps they have other entertainment or longer work hours is the reason they don’t view TV as much as the rest of us do.

If you think about it, we do watch a lot of television each day. A typical person might watch 30 minutes of the news before and after work for 1 hour. They will probably watch a 1 hour prime time show or a couple of 30 minute sitcoms to add another hour on to their total. If the typical person watches a movie or a sporting event that same day; then that would be at least 2 more hours you could chalk up each day. This would be about 4 hours for the average person and if you leave the TV on as you go to sleep, you start to get near that 5 hours a day mark. 5 hours each day in a 7 day week is 35 hours of TV viewing per week. Most will hit that 40 hour mark and beyond when the weekend comes and they lay around the house watching TV on Saturday or Sunday. I think it’s a safe guess that most Americans watch 40 hours of TV each week and I might actually be over the 50 hour amount in my TV viewing habits.

How much TV do you think you watch each week? Please give me a daily or weekly amount and also state what country you’re from? Let’s see if the USA and Turkey are the two leading countries when it comes to the most watched television.