Online Television and New Media

I hate the TV ratings system. It hasn't accounted for variable change, nor has it been able to properly measure an accurate number of viewers since episodes started streaming on the internet OR episodes started getting tivo'd.

Shows are getting canceled that I only have the opportunity to watch online. Being in college, I take night classes Wednesdays and Thursdays...two HUGE nights for me in the TV realm (Lost, Life on Mars(not anymore), The Office, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock, and ER(not anymore)). All of these shows I watch online and view the fun Honda or Scrubbing Bubbles commercials every once and a while, but Networks are not including me in the statistics.

I know it's going to take a few years for the system to catch up to the internet, but still. Should the shows I watch now have to suffer becasue they aren't including me and millions of other viewers in their statistics?

The Shows I watch on a weekly basis ONLINE:
Monday: (Fox) House, 24, (ABC) Castle, (NBC) Chuck, Heroes, (CBS) How I Met Your Mother
Tuesday: (FX) Rescue Me
Wednesday: (ABC) Lost, Life on Mars/cancelled, Scrubs
Thursday:(NBC) The Office, ER/cancelled, 30 Rock, (ABC) Grey's Anatomy

I can't watch Television on time anymore. The internet offers myself and millions of others a chance to watch all of the programming they want...maybe because they're busy, maybe because they had stuff to do, and maybe because the other networks foolishly are going head to head with MY favorite shows. grrrrr.


Congrats on Ashton getting a million followers on Twitter. My turn soon. I think it's great that Ashton is supporting the Malaria No More foundation, and that Hugh Jackman is going to donate $100,000 to someone's favorite non-profit. It really shows the power of new media these days. If it was up to me, he'd be picking Dance Marathon (which he re-twitted), but every cause is a good cause.