If you spent days digging through old TV Guides or perusing decade-old reviews in Entertainment Weekly, you wouldn’t be able to find a period of time with more television program – or channel – diversity than today.

A decade ago, HBO was just starting to produce award-winning shows and networks like AMC and Showtime didn’t have critically-renowned, successful primetime programs like The Walking Dead, Mad Men and Homeland. Sensations on Netflix like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black were unheard of. And none of these shows would have stood a chance against the big networks’ Sunday night Nielsen Rating toppers like The Good Wife, Almost Human or America’s Funniest Home Videos.

Now Netflix has more than 40 million subscribers and its female prison drama has an estimated four million viewers. HBO’s fantasy epic Game of Thrones has more than 14 million