I'm coming up on three years of doing this website, and I thought that the end of the 2002/2003 tv season would be the ideal time to talk about me, the website and the future. When I started this site back in 2000, I had no idea what I wanted it to be. All I knew is that I loved tv ratings, for some god-forsaken reason. So I started the site. While I am very proud of the site, it was not been a smash success, as the counter on the bottom of the homepage will indicate. 8800 hits in three years. Some sits get more than that in a day.
      But I guess I was never doing it for the hits, or else I would have quite many times over. Right now, daily hits are at 8-10, which is definitely disappointing, but okay at the same time. I have built momentum at various times, but something always came up. I was left computerless for two months in the spring of 2001, I spent three months in Mexico in the fall of 2001 and for the fall of 2002, my "high speed" connection was down alot. 
      I still get excited doing this, but not as much as before. Certainly, maintaing the site has become at lot easier within the last year. I learned how to use a spreadsheet to complie the ratings (season ratings, anyway) last winter. With automatic averaging, it was a god send. Believe it or not, I used tokeep track of season to date ratings with a text document, then averaged them all out by calculator! I used to take hours to even complie the top 50, now I can do the whole thing in 20 minutes. The weekly ratings was another sore point. Writing them wasn't necessarily the bad thing, it was at the end of the week when I had to sort them that was the pain. Then I discovered "sort" on spreadsheet and voila! Now it takes only 10 minutes or each Tuesday to do the weekly charts. Needless to say, compiling the ratings has become so much easier.
      As for the ratings, I can honestly say they are 100% accurate. The LA Times Calendar live website posts the weekly ratings each Tuesday evening, so I check mine against theirs. As for the demo ratings, I pick-em up where I can, nbcmv, mediaweek, Variety, wherever. I would love to be able to post all of them, but logistically, it is impossible. 
      What about the future of this site? I'm entering a very strange time in my life. In October I will graduate, then I will hopefully start a masters program in Montreal in January. Until then, I will probably keep the site as up to date as possible. After that, I'm not sure. Eventually, this website will end. I will move on and maybe enter a ratings-a-holics anonymous group. The truth is that I will always check the ratings, even after this site ends. Like you, the loyal people who visit this site, it's something you can never get over, but rarely do you tell other people about it. It's our secret shame. Or guilty pleasure.
       So until the site ends, enjoy. It's been one hell of a ride and I have to thank you for stopping by.