If any TV network you are watching starts showing Donald Trump live you need to change the channel

[TeamPooka]

Watch a game show, an old movie on TCM, reruns of your favorite sitcom.
If you go to watch something on your DVR you still need to change the channel or it gets credit for being watched while it runs.
If the networks realize showing Trump live kills their audience they will stop and only show tape of the most stupid things he says.
So if you see something ugly and orange on your screen that isn't a Cheeto, change the channel.
Do it for all of us.

[Tess49]

1. I've been doing that for months. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I already do.

When I tune I'm to hear news and I see that orange face on the screen, I really can't take it, and I know I'm just going to get upset, so I change it to anything else. I'm getting reacquainted with Murder, She Wrote, these days, used to watch it with my grandmother...

[FSogol]

3. Sorry, but your idea of how tv ratings are generated is wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings

Unless you are logging viewing habits for Nielsen or have Nielsen equipment connected to your tv, you are not being polled. A small sampling of households are used to extrapolate viewing habits.

What you should do if email the network and tell them they are over covering Trumpy and that you promise to change the channel whenever he appears,

[ebbie15644]

4. Oh I've been doing that, which is why

I haven't been able to watch MSNBC

[63splitwindow]

5. That's not how ratings are determined

How do television ratings work?

"In the U.S., the term "TV ratings" immediately makes people think of "Nielsen" because Nielsen Media Research has become the de facto national measurement service for the television industry in the United States and Canada. Nielson measures the number of people watching television shows and makes its data available to the television and cable networks, advertisers and the media.

Nielsen uses a technique called statistical sampling to rate the shows -- the same technique that pollsters use to predict the outcome of elections. Nielsen creates a "sample audience" and then counts how many in that audience view each program. Nielsen then extrapolates from the sample and estimates the number of viewers in the entire population watching the show. That's a simple way of explaining what is a complicated, extensive process. Nielsen relies mainly on information collected from TV set meters that it installs, and then combines this information with huge databases of the programs that appear on each TV station and cable channel.

To find out who is watching TV and what they are watching, the company gets around 5,000 households to agree to be a part of the representative sample for the national ratings estimates. Nielsen's statistics show that 99 million households have TVs in the United States, so Nielsen's sample is not very large. The key, therefore, is to be sure the sample is representative. Then TVs, homes, programs, and people are measured in a variety of ways.
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http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/question433.htm

[spanone]

6. he disgusts me.

[Journeyman]

7. I believe the best course is to not poison your mind with any of that swill . . .

Haven't watched television news since Linda Ellerbee & Overnight signed off in 1984. My life is infinitely better for it.

Broadcast news will never change unless and until the vast majority cease participating. There are infinitely better places to get your news. Avail yourself of those sources and you shall take step towards emancipating yourself from a perverse form of mental slavery.

[Statistical]

8. TV Ratings don't work that way.

Now I would recommend changing the channel so you don't have to clean up so much puke off your carpet but you aren't going to affect ratings one way or another.

[Kathy M]

9. Have been changing channels

for a while now when he shows up..... even when they show when of his tweets channel is changed