Well, I only got a C in statistics, so I'm no wonk, but it sure seems like there's something wrong there somewhere, or the nets would be producing more shows that people would actually want to watch.
The trend for many years is people watching more cable than broadcast programming.
If I can ask, in what city do you live?
It's a mystery, isn't it? A combination of money and power in the hands of liberals who run the major studios, and the peer pressure around artistic people - writers, directors and producers - to veer left. Add the drugs and "glamour" that accompany wealthy showbiz venues, and you have the perfect storm. It blinds them to the importance of the even more money their advertisers could make with programming that would appeal to the mainstream - shows without the constant gross-outs and defamations of anything decent.
Then there is the matter of the large advertisers. Many of the largest are huge, consolidated food and housewares companies like PepsiCo and Proctor & Gamble. These two holding companies own literally thousands of brand-name products and fast-food chain stores, including global distribution in countries around the world. They advertise with the usual all-American symbols: families, moms and dads with children and pets, et cetera. Meanwhile, their management is under political pressure, because of the huge numbers of employees worldwide, to adopt the entire pro-homosexual agenda; so much so that Ohio-based Proctor & Gamble tried to intimidate employees during the last election to vote against conservatives. P&B and Ford Motor Company also were sponsors of the Gay Games, a huge Lust-In with oiled bodies and obscene public behavior.
If P&G were really honest, it would stuff your Sunday newspaper with coupon books full of the real images they are promoting - gay guys and lesbian moms rushing around the grocery with their adopted Asian infants, et cetera - instead of trading off the image of wholesome families that provide their financial success. It's only because homosexuals are only 3% of the population, not 10% as their propaganda insists, that P&G doesn't invest in putting their advertising images where their politics are. Ford tried appealing specifically to gays in advertising and was spanked - hard - by Americans concerned about the pro-homosexualist propaganda to which their children are exposed.