Barbara Karrman of Platteville, Wis., said she planned to do "some channel flipping" tonight.
Temporally intermittent streams also occur in dry areas where, at low stage, only some channel reaches contain flowing water.
NBC said 219.4 million viewers — approaching two-thirds of the population of the country — caught at least some segment of the Games on some channel.
Some channel executives said Viacom, the owner of MTV, VH1 and other channels, is taking the most aggressive stance against the streaming app.
These include contracts between existing distributors and some channel owners that prohibit the channels from being licensed to new competitors like Intel.
"There might be some channel surfing from the Oscars because there's always dead air between the awards," said Brad Adgate, the director of research for Horizon Media.
Should it come down to the final hole, as two of the three playoff tournaments have, that could very well stop some channel surfers in midclick.
It's not an alt-right forum or a bitcoin marketplace, nor is it some channel of the deep Web where novel, illicit substances are heavily trafficked.
I guess what I might find jarring, or more offensive, is our government's complicity in horrors that go on on a daily basis, than some Channel 4 drama".
Intel initially proposed recording everything on every channel for 30 days; that timetable was reduced to three days after some channel owners objected, noting that Nielsen counts only three days of video-on-demand viewing.
Some channel owners may also balk at Netflix's having a spot on set-top boxes because of the inherent competition between scheduled and on-demand shows, said Michael Nathanson, a senior analyst at the newly formed research firm MoffettNathanson.
