[harsh]

The 20th ranked TV show Dec. 26, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012 had 7,117,000 estimated viewers. Someone is watching.

Your numbers are from amongst the broadcast networks only. If you consider the cable shows, you'd be seeing Pawn Stars and Spongebob Squarepants in the top 20.

It probably isn't fair to the broadcast networks to have picked a time interval dominated by reruns.

 

[harsh]

Prime Time Anytime supposedly records the multiplexed signal from the transponder and then later demuxes the shows out of the that feed.

The data rate has got to be pretty high to send an entire transponder to the hard drive for three hours.