An article from last week's Business Insider said the cable channel is up 3% year-over-year, averaging a viewership of 945,000.
The third season averaged a weekly viewership of 3.6 million people, while the fourth and fifth seasons premiered with 2.8 million and 3.2 million viewers, respectively.
The two largest television media markets in South Dakota are Sioux Falls-Mitchell, with a viewership of 246,020, and Rapid City, with a viewership of 91,070.
The series was a critical and commercial success, with an average viewership of over 30% in addition to ranking as the top program consistently every week after its debut.
The show isn't a runaway success: its second season had an average viewership of about one million, according to Nielsen, or about half that of the most recent season of "The Real Housewives of Orange County".
The Patriots' five previous Super Bowls produced an average viewership of 89 million.
By comparison, the prime-time "Hockey Night in Canada," attracts an average viewership of 1.3 million.
Despite the success of The Ten Commandments, Globo still dominates the market, with an average viewership of 4.2 million per minute, compared with 1.4 million for Record.
"The West Wing," one of the most successful shows on television, has an average viewership of 19.6 million, compared with 4.2 million for "Felicity".
The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.
