Actually, they don’t keep track of your tv. The Nielsen ratings are based on just several thousand machines that are hooked up to that very limited amount of households throughout the country. It’s quite a fraud.
They’ve made a fortune selling old rope for money to the networks, who gamble billions on the Nielsen fiction.
Ours was once a ‘Nielsen Family’.
They offered us a gift certificate or something, and we took them up on it.
Their method of tracking our viewership? We kept a diary and mailed it to them.