The science behind ratings is all eyes per ad minute, and it's forced into being a proper and good system due to all of the business reasons mentioned. However! Does CPM or the value of the perceived audience ever factor into the worth of a show in any significant amount?

The way something like a yachting magazine can take out Rolex ads for crazy money because the minuscule audience is more likely to buy one than an average human. Might be screwing up my metaphor. Or this question is just an exercise in pretentious asshole exceptionalism, and we're all just sheep that buy what the flashy box tells us.

You need to see two real doctors and one fake one.

Hahaha.

Years ago, I was sent a packet to write down what I listened to on the radio. The letter included a dollar bill as payment. I never bothered, and not long after I got another letter... asking for the dollar back.

This doesn't show up in the DiF podcast feed, are you using the intermission listing for this one?