If so, how much per day?
Most of the people I know don’t watch much, if any, television. Among my friends, few even own a television set. We’re in our mid 20s, in California.
We do spend a lot of time on the internet.
I know this is an increasingly common trend, but what about for Dopers?
I still watch TV, although the internet now takes up a lot of time that used to be spent watching TV
If I watched any more, I would physically meld to it.
I watch the TeeVee constantly. There is always a TV on when I’m at home. Always. Except when I’m sleeping (and sometimes, even then). And despite that, I know nothing about anything that’s on TV. Nothing. I don’t follow any series on any networks. No sit-coms, no dramas, no singers I think suck anyway, no Nasty Housewives of Boise, Idaho, or whatever. I’m an inveterate surfer.
Mostly I watch sports and movies. And generally I kill the early evening surfing the Dope and watching reruns – Friends, How I Met Your Mother, an occasional MA*SH**. I’m leaning heavily toward ditching cable altogether and just going with Netflix and online programming.
We haven’t watched TV on the TV in years. I do watch a lot of stuff online (hulu and netflix).
Same here. No TV on the TV but I sometimes (not often) watch TV shows on Netflix. I just finished watching all the episodes Of “The Killing” which was an excellent crime drama. When I’m home its mostly the computer or reading.
Sports and a few select shows I DVR
I still haven’t gotten around to cancelling my cable service–mostly because visitors tend to like watching it–but I spend essentially zero hours watching stuff on a channel. I do however watch several shows via online sources (probably 2 hours a week on average). I’m 34. A 55" screen is still very nice for watching stuff, but the idea of “channels” is nonsense in this day and age.
Tossed my old CRT TV in the trash when I moved last year, though I had already stopped watching it years ago. I still watch some TV when I’m visiting my parents or happen to be somewhere with the TV on, but that amounts to only a few hours per month. If I feel like watching a TV show, I buy DVD boxes and watch them on my computer.
We still watch things on the TV, but we don’t have cable - it’s all via a media computer hooked up to the TV, or sometimes DVDs.
It’s hard for me to answer this question. Yes, the TV is on quite a bit, but it’s mostly tuned to Nick Jr. My toddler son has a lot of favorite shows and when he’s awake, he gets to choose what we watch. So if you include things like “Team Umizoomi” and “Dora the Explorer”, then yes I still watch TV. But I pretty much never get to watch anything I actually like.
I watch TV more when I’m with my wife and daughter - Laura and I like to crawl in bed and watch whatever is on, or catch up on DVR recordings. When I’m by myself I tend to turn the TV to ESPN and spend my time on my laptop, talking to you fine people. 
This.
Oh, my, yes. Our DVR is almost full alread, and “Game of Thrones” starts back up this weekend (in case someone hasn’t noticed the stickies) to add to the fun.
(TV watchers - the first part of my response is a TV reference. Name it!)
Yes, plenty of it.
Top of my head:
I watch Justified, Archer, Awake, Daily Show, Happy Endings, How I Met Your Mother, Through the Wormhole & Nova.
Laserkitty watches CSI, American Horror Story, Archer, Happy Endings, HIMYM, Hoarders (guilty pleasure).
Daughter (who is 5) watched Phineas & Ferb, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Through the Wormhole, & Nova.
My TiVo is generally about 50% full, and I clear stuff regularly.
We also Netflix stuff like Invader Zim, Portlandia, various movies.
Throughout the last year I’ve started using it less. I’ve not been actively ignoring it, I just spend almost all my free time on my PC. I would have been using it to watch Formula 1 but the BBC only has the right to show half the races this year. There’s nothing showing that demands I watch it live (like sport or Doctor Who) so I use the BBC iPlayer instead. The other free channels have online players too but never broadcast anything that interests me anyway. Along with Netflix and Lovefilm I have more than enough to entertain myself during those rare periods when I’m not playing a PC game.
I’ve been considering getting rid of my TV and buying a bigger monitor.
So, a couple of hours a week, at the moment.
Of course I do–I’m an old woman, and I still have a 1990s TV, with a 2000s VCR and a 2010s DVD player.
I even still read books that don’t need recharging!
Single? TV-watching has more of a potential to be a communal activity than web-surfing. I suspect people with families, or at least SOs, watch more TV than single people.
As for myself, I “watch TV”—approximately one show per day, on the average—but it’s mostly TV-on-DVD (though most often watched on a real, CRT-type television set).
Not much live TV anymore. It’s a minefield to navigate anyway.
I do source a lot of television from other sources. And then, if it’s a good show, I’ll pay that back, and alleviate my (rapidly decreasing) guilt, by getting the DVD.
Yes. I DVR several series.