Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20141216060941/@comment-24674051-20141216145616

Also, another factor in viewership can be affected by the time of year. Right now, you are between Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are a lot of holiday specials on other networks, not to mention still having to compete with sports (cough NFL cough). Plus people have outside activities more often this time of year. There are a lot of things to distract a person from being able to immediately watch. and the numbers only account for views on the live airing, and DVR recording viewings within like the first 24 hours afterward. And, as far as I know, these figures only account for people that access thier viewing by Cable. OTA viewership is not factored into the mix (as there is almost no way to get the figures from OTA viewers in a timely enough manner).