VAThrasher said:
Uh, has anyone seen the NHL's ratings in the U.S.? I hate to say it, but I'm glad we're getting 3 hours. Sometimes I think we HF'ers make up about 1/2 the viewing audience.
See this is the realy interesting thing about tv ratings now.For the most part they are completly false.They only know what prolly 1 out of 200 people are actualy watching.Those are the people that have tracking devices on there tv.
The rating companies simply takes that one persons tv scedule and throws it into a huge pool witch is later multiplied by 200.heres an example of how it works....
theres a town with a poplulation of 10,000.well theres prolly 500 people with tracking devices.say that this is the progrming results for that night.
NHL hockey:25
friends:200
wrestling:150
cosby show:50
two girls and a guy xxx:75
Then they they multiplie each tally by 20 to equal the 10,000 people even though realy only 500 were acconted for.
So they would assume of the 10,000 people that 500 people are wtching NHL when in fact it could be any where from 25 people to 9,525.