No, TV ratings are just fake there to make it seem like they exist. They are not real. Its a vanity plate, its not like actual real or has effect, outside of some carriage deals, which I have to assume at this point you don't know what content covenants and such are.

The FCC was never going to get involved. Never. The networks made a fake "ratings" system just to get the religious folks off their ass, it was all fake situation to shut people up. The networks knew it, the FCC did, the religious people knew it. Smoke and mirrors. It was "ok, if we just fake it will everyone shut up? Yeah? Ok"