It would have been exponentially more. Very, very, few (if any) areas of the country went "dark" on the 17th. So most people's TVs continued to work, they just lost one or two channels. Further, the turned-off channels were disproportionately amongst the least viewed. The major networks said that the stations they own were going to continue broadcasting in analog for the time being, leaving only some affiliates, the minor networks, and the religious stations in the pool for turning off.
So the bottom line is that the above figures really have little or no meaning.
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It would have been exponentially more. Very, very, few (if any) areas of the country went "dark" on the 17th. So most people's TVs continued to work, they just lost one or two channels. Further, the turned-off channels were disproportionately amongst the least viewed. The major networks said that the stations they own were going to continue broadcasting in analog for the time being, leaving only some affiliates, the minor networks, and the religious stations in the pool for turning off.
So the bottom line is that the above figures really have little or no meaning.