boost your rating?

[Anonymous]

Somebody said

Trying to boost your ratings again?

when his father watched TV where a minister gave some kind of speech.
And he answered

Never hurts to try to see ourselves as others do.

I was wondering what 'boost your ratings' meant.

Help me, and thank you for your help.

[RonBee]

I'm not sure if this applies here, but in this country (USA) ratings (always plural) refers to a method of measuring the viewership of teevee programs.

Does that help?

:)