Scott:
The goal of a TV network is to draw eyeballs to watch things that make them money. This is the \"content\" that networks wrap around the ads. On a day such as the Super Bowl, even GSN, all the way up at 161 on my dial, is trying to draw eyeballs. NBC did it with a special \"Fear Factor\" one year. Animal Planet does it with the Puppy Bowl. There is a group of people who couldn\'t be arsed to watch the football game (until the blackout I was one of them). GSN has two choices: contend for those eyeballs or put up a test pattern. If they figure that they can reach 100k viewers, they want to maximize their profit. Typically you do that by running the least expensive thing that will reach that benchmark. I realize that you don\'t like this because DWTS isn\'t something you want to watch, but they\'re not programming just to you, and they\'re not accountable to you: they have bills to pay and a ledger that has to add up at the end of each month.
Do you understand why nobody here takes anything you say seriously at all? That you\'re roundly met with near complete derision? That every time you annoy your keyboard and click on \"post\" you\'re just digging your hole even bigger? Does this even concern you?
