For one, the business of making people watch free TV shows had transformed into a multi-billion dollar industry (more than $50 billion as of last count) in the U.S. alone. And consciously or otherwise, television had become a touchstone of popular culture it had helped spawn through entertainment, education, news and current events, politics, sports [...]

With snacks and drinks in hand, you settle down on your favorite sofa opposite your TV set. You clicked the remote and your favorite free TV show goes on.
You caught up and got carried with the story right away. You followed the hero to a dark place, an abandoned room where someone was brutally [...]

For free TV show fans, soap operas had been, are and will always be on top of their list as the pinnacle of television drama. The concrete proof is that soap operas all over the world are among the highest-rated, if not the highest-rated, among all the other shows in all the other genres.
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The brutal truth: all the free TV shows in the world (including the news, specials, the sports and awards events, in fact, every show there is) have their precious existence dependent on only one factor – ratings. What are ratings? And why does it wield such power? Basically, ratings are simply an audience measurement [...]