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A little surprised Florida is as low as it is, and wondering what makes MI so much lower than any other state. Especially factoring in prevalence of winter weather - consider the rest of the northern tier of states.

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Interesting to me is how many of these countries have socialized medicine. So many people forego potential life saving procedures because they can't afford them & that has to factor in here. 

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There's a few things I don't get about "broadcast TV" in this context... the chart has Cable TV at 23.4%. Where I live, cable TV is how we all get broadcast TV. What's the difference here? The other thing I must be missing is if broadcast TV means network television and if that's the case, of course June has the lowest ratings. Most TV shows switched to showing repeats in June. Viewership for repeated episodes is always lower than when first broadcast.

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1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

There's a few things I don't get about "broadcast TV" in this context... the chart has Cable TV at 23.4%. Where I live, cable TV is how we all get broadcast TV. What's the difference here? The other thing I must be missing is if broadcast TV means network television and if that's the case, of course June has the lowest ratings. Most TV shows switched to showing repeats in June. Viewership for repeated episodes is always lower than when first broadcast. 

Broadcast TV refers to traditional radio frequency local broadcasts which bounce off the ionosphere and can be received by a dedicated TV receiver set.  While you may receive a similar selection of channels via cable, the term refers to the method of broadcast, ie radio broadcast. This is sometimes referred to as OTA, over the air.

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But even broadcast signal is digital now. You got subchannels and whatnot, and our cable company carries almost all of them.

And almost all network shows can be streamed at any time. Time-shifting as the called it when it was done with a VCR.

I think the reality is probably a lot more nuanced than this report says 

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