68 million in the US or World Wide. ???
One of my great mysteries is how anyone can tell or give a number to the number of people watching anything on TV.
How do anyone know if people do turn to a channel leave the thing on, go out for dinner and thieves will believe there is someone at home. How about people that fall asleep just before the debates begin and have no idea what went on.
Trying to remember back when the Nielson ratings started. All I can remember is 500 or so special boxes were set on peoples TV,s and show ratings from these boxes could make or break a program. This was volunteer for invasion of privacy.
If Technology can find how the numbers of people tuned into a program, why not go one step up and be able to track down the individuals who's set is turned on to a program. Great alibi in criminal cases, I was home watching a re run of Gilligan's Island when my wife went missing--don't believe me, call the cable company.
Have to remember sports bars that have 20 TV's all turned to the debate and perhaps 20 out of 150 are partly watching.
I have no idea of the US population at this time, nor do I trust Polls or those that tell us how many people watched what.
I am still hopping mad that one of my favorite programs was canceled because it ONLY drew 5,000,000 viewers.The Anamil Clinic with the star a monkey that was one heck of an actor.