Makes you wonder who is FUNDING that station (PmsNbc)? Their ratings are always in the gutter yet they stay on the air.
I've got a couple guesses
Ratings are relative, not absolute. Take a half-dozen comparable shows and rate them best ratings to worst -- they're ALL making money. All the ratings mean is that those sitting on top of that list are making more than those on the bottom (because they have a basis to charge more for ads).
Make no mistake, Al Sharpton, though he may be a pus-filled wart on the body of intelligent discourse, makes money. Just as Limblob does for the same reason. Because what sells ratings is notoriety. A quick look at how active this thread is demonstrates that. If his circus show were not making money, this thread woudn't exist because no one would care. And in time the show wouldn't either.
So that's exactly what the fact that his show still exists tells us --- that it's making money. You determine that from its longevity -- not from comparison to its competitors.
I keep having to explain this to you people over an over and over -- what ratings measure is
attention. And that has nothing to do with ideological "agreement" with its content.