What was up with the huge TV ratings this past weekend?

[Hades]

Maybe this belongs in the Toonami forum, but what did CN do? Those freaking TV rating things covered than a quarter of the screen the other day.

[Kury Wagner]

It's not just CN, it's various networks/television shows... see this thread (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=142216).

Oddly, while some rating blocks are huge now, some are also ultra tiny... I just saw a miniature one the other day.

[Darking]

Actually, I think everyone's doing it. I saw huge ratings on Nick, Disney and Toon Disney. They seem to have started right after Labor day.

They also show the ratings right after the commercial break too. Also very annoying.

[Matt Hazuda]

It's a stopgap measure to prevent the FCC from enforcing the same standards to cable as they do to broadcast. That's why you may have been seeing a number of V-chip ads as well lately.

I'd rather have huge ratings than the FCC controlling cable any day of the week.

[Wanted]

Oh... I thought that the hospital TVs were just... I thought it was DirecTV doing it, but then I referred to a previous DirecTV experience. Didn't click.

But, if this is something that is occuring cable-wide, I guess we'll just have to live with it for the rest of our lives (or until people unite and override the FCC).

[Hades]

The FCC already controls TV right? That is why anime has to be butchered beyond recognition unless it is on AS.

[Iridium128]

The FCC already controls TV right? That is why anime has to be butchered beyond recognition unless it is on AS.
No, it doesn't. Anime is edited by their own standards set by their own Standards and Practices group. The FCC has no control over the content of an episode on a cable channel.

[Wanted]

Oh, yeah, I just though about this one:

Looks like ABC's in good company. They've been doing this thing for a while now, and it seems they started it. Looks like they're tired of the FCC, too.