Most-Watched American TV Channels

Since Dickens was alive?

I guess because Adult Swim is Cartoon Network during the day.

This doesn't make sense to me... isn't the channel still the Cartoon Network? Adult Swim is just the name of the programming block.

They're technically different networks sharing the same channels. They're recorded different for ratings purposes. So according to the quiz, Cartoon Network didn't make the list, but they give you Adult Swim for trying.

and isn't TV Land just something on Nickelodeon?

I thought so too, but I looked it up after taking this quiz, and apparently it is considered a separate network that airs "on the same channel" as Cartoon Network.

I was surprised HBO doesn't show up personally. I know they are a subscription based network so obviously get less views than CBS or NBC, unless maybe you count illegal downloads, but... still... less than BET?

I was shocked

they just missed making it

I was wondering the same thing

Two years later, we're still wondering.

I thought there was a speck of dirt on my computer screen at first.

your whole world is fake news

and.. not that CNN or NBC push fake news or propaganda (that's actually propaganda designed to distract and fool you, and you fell for it), but if propaganda or even political bias were really a recipe for poor ratings then Fox News would have gone off the air about 15 years ago. Most people actually LIKE bias in their "news." Especially those who aren't bright enough to grapple with nuance or grey areas. They prefer simple echo chambers that mirror their own prejudices. It's less informative but it is more emotionally satisfying. Neutral unbiased reporting like you get on traditional network news shows is boring and confusing for a lot of the audience. If your blinders are too thick to see that this is Fox News' entire business model, then, okay... look at Stephen Colbert's show and how his ratings took off right after he started speaking honestly (with scathing criticism) about Donald Trump every night. Didn't scare viewers away from him.

Finally, "fake news" is not news stories that have political bias. "Fake news" is a term coined to describe *actual* fake news... stories that were fabricated from whole cloth, not just biased but completely made-up, produced mostly by Russians and some East Europeans, spread around on social media websites where such stories are not fact checked or filtered, to confuse people into thinking that it was real news, undermine American democracy, and (in many cases) swing the election in favor of Trump who Russia favored. (or just make money) Example: Pizza-Gate

Trump's fragile ego couldn't take this, because it cast doubt on the legitimacy of his election "win," and so he took to erroneously applying the term to news stories that were disfavorable to him to muddy the waters. And later his psychosis led him to state that he had invented the term.

Anyway... the point is your are very very confused. Please try getting some information from other sources than whatever you watch.

I watch BBC often when I am overseas, at least up to the point when the accent gets to be too grating, or they start talking about something phenomenally uninteresting and irrelevant happening in Africa again, and I have to change the channel to CNN International where they also have people with British accents talking about irrelevant non-news in Africa, and then I turn off the TV.

But back in the States I can't recall ever actually seeing the BBC on TV anywhere.

I definitely watched a lot more of the channel back then.

The shows in the 50s weren't worth watching, either, you just didn't realize it back then. You can probably find them in reruns on TV Land or some of the other few hundred channels you have to choose from, anyway. Or stream them whenever you want.