Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4775130-20150922222850/@comment-1916997-20150924035032

Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Ratings are just weird, they only look at a certain demographic, and they don't take into consideration how many people watch tv nowadays in non-traditional ways (where they watch it later on a service like Comcast's OnDemand, or HuluPlus). Plus, you have to look at how many people were watching tv at all, like Once could only get half a million viewers, but if only a million people were watching tv at that time, that means Once had 50% of viewers that were watching tv, which would be really good. And lots of weird things effect if people are watching tv or not: weather, local events, etc. Our society has changed, and the way we watch things have changed, and people who analyse these things need to keep up. At any rate, Once is still doing really well for a show going into its fifth season (as we all know, the longer a show goes, the less people watch it, or at least watch it live). Finally, I know lots of people who like Once, but have fallen behind, so they will not be watching season 5, even if they want to, because they are behind. Like I said before, society (and how it watches tv shows) has changed. Still, the most important thing to them is the adds and commercials. When someone watches it later, they do it without yhe commercials so it doesn't really count. A show in 2015 has more ways to make money than just the commercials during its live showing. They can sell things like books, DVD, merchandise, etc. to get direct profits from the consumers who enjoy the show. And some of those ways to rewatch (Comcast's OnDemand for example) still makes you watch commericals anyway.