Weekly time spent watching TV in Canada 2023-2024, by age group

The average weekly time spent watching television in Canada from September 2023 to May 2024 was around 19 hours a week among adults aged 18 or above. Those between the age of 25 and 54 watched 10.2 hours per week. Meanwhile, teens watched just seven hours each week. Traditional vs. digital media consumption in CanadaAccording to the most recent data, Canadians spent over 10 hours a day with major media in 2021. Taking a deeper look at the specific media split, on average, adults in the country spent 288 minutes with traditional media, and the largest portion of time – 326 minutes – consuming digital media of all sorts that year. Online video users in CanadaIn 2021 it was measured that 27 percent of the Canadian population watched TV online. The ability to watch time-shifted TV, as opposed to live viewing, has brought about services such as subscription video-on-demand. It is believed that in 2021 there were 18.6 million people subscribing to Netflix in Canada. The popularity and accessibility of programming on such platforms also introduced the notion of binge viewing, defined as watching at least three episodes of a TV show in one sitting.

自2023年9月至2024年5月，加拿大成年人（18岁及以上）平均每周观看电视时间为19小时。其中，25至54岁的成年人每周观看10.2小时。与此同时，青少年每周仅观看7小时。在加拿大，传统媒体与数字媒体消费对比根据最新数据，2021年加拿大人每天花费超过10小时接触主流媒体。进一步分析具体媒体消费结构，该国成年人平均每周花费288分钟接触传统媒体，而当年花费时间最长的部分——326分钟——用于消费各类数字媒体。加拿大在线视频用户2021年的数据显示，加拿大有27%的人口在线观看电视。相较于现场观看，时间移位电视的观看能力催生了如订阅式视频点播等服务。据信，2021年加拿大有1860万人订阅Netflix。此类平台上节目流行的便捷性亦引入了“ binge viewing”（一次性观看至少三集电视节目）的概念。