The thing with ratings is they can be bad when we don't watch the show the way they want us to. If we watch without ads or online and not from their channel or web site, they don't count it as their ratings. They don't care if we are watching it from a stream the day it airs instead of their official stream a few days later. Our watching doesn't count.
I don't like having to wait a week for cliffhangers, and the rating system only counts if we watch a show within 7 days of it airing, if playing it back on a DVR. The ratings system also cares that the commercials play, so if we skip them the ratings go bad, as the commercials are what is funding the network. If I watch a whole season at once, weeks after the initial episodes aired, they won't count my ratings.
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The thing with ratings is they can be bad when we don't watch the show the way they want us to. If we watch without ads or online and not from their channel or web site, they don't count it as their ratings. They don't care if we are watching it from a stream the day it airs instead of their official stream a few days later. Our watching doesn't count. I don't like having to wait a week for cliffhangers, and the rating system only counts if we watch a show within 7 days of it airing, if playing it back on a DVR. The ratings system also cares that the commercials play, so if we skip them the ratings go bad, as the commercials are what is funding the network. If I watch a whole season at once, weeks after the initial episodes aired, they won't count my ratings.