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Bgwinstonfc30 wrote: I would read this whole thread but it' pretty long and I don't have the time.

I don't know whether ratings really matter all that much but it seems like ABC thinks they do and I wish they didn't. I am a huge fan of the show and I watch it whenever I can, but I don't have acess to cable (i'm a broke college kid) so whenver I watch it I have to find it on the internet somewhere and that means it doesn't contribute to the ratings. I wish that ABC would take time to just look at the massive amount of fans the show has and use that as a basis instead of ratings.

For all I know, they already do that, but I just wanted to say it. Unfortunately that's not how it works. ABC (and every other network for that matter) cares about making money. The most money they make are from advertisers. The advertisers care about the number of people who watch their ads, which is measured by Live + SD demo ratings. Watching the episode few days later or watching it on the internet means not watching the ads, which means that advertisers don't care for their views, which means that abc doesn't care about those views.