Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) announced today that it has commercialized its Portable People MeterTM radio ratings services in eight new
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
TV3 News says it has overtaken One News in the state broadcaster's key viewership of 25- to 54-year-olds. AGB Nielsen figures for the month of September also show Campbell Live made a substantial ratings gain in the five main...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he intends to sue Arbitron Inc. over the planned rollout of a new electronic radio-ratings system in New York, saying it may drastically reduce advertising revenue at minority radio stations.In a letter dated Thursday, Mr. Cuomo's office indicated that it intends to begin litigation against the New York media and marketing company over its Portable People...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Sarah Palin's televised showdown with Joe Biden drew nearly 70 million U.S. viewers, far surpassing last week's John McCain-Barack Obama face-off and ranking as the most watched vice presidential debate ever.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
(Corrects date of Carter-Reagan debate to 1980 from 1976, paragraph 9)
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Vice presidential debate seen by nearly 70 million people Thursday night's vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden was seen by 69.989 million viewers, the second-largest TV audience for any presidential or vice presidential debate since Nielsen started counting the number of persons watching debates in 1976.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Thursday debate set record TV ratings -- it was the most watched VP debate ever. Somewhere -- probably on a golf course -- Dan Quayle is very happy to hear that. Nearly 70 million people watched...
BeldarBlog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Only the 1980 Reagan-Carter presidential debate outdrew last night's vice-presidential debate. My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com explains why these monster ratings are great news for McCain-Palin.
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
(Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar) From an email I just received from the Nielsen organization regarding their TV ratings for last night's vice presidential debate: 69.9 million people watched the debate, tying it...
Tim Goodman. The Bastard Machine (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
1. The Nielsen ratings are in for Thursday night's vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden and they are astounding- 70 million people watched (numbers on who wept are not available). That destroys the 52.4 million who watched the first presidential debate between Barack...
http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The Economist LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sarah Palin's televised showdown with Joe Biden drew nearly 70 million U.S. viewers, far surpassing last week's John McCain-Barack Obama face-off and ranking as the most watche… Read the full article here
Reuters (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The nationally televised debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden drew 69.9 million U.S. viewers, making it the most watched ever between vice presidential candidates, Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
If Arbitron rolls out its new PPM radio ratings on schedule Wednesday, it may receive an unwanted welcome: a lawsuit from state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo asking for a temporary restraining order.
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LAist (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Did you watch last night's debates? If you did, you were one of the minority. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed reports : "Nielsen says that last night's Biden-Palin debate drew a much larger television audience — 45% of households in the 55 biggest metered metro areas — than the earlier McCain-Obama debate. But the ratings in Los Angeles were dead last at 34%."
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
TV News: Network lands 13.1 million viewers Thursday -- The second bananas came in first in a big way Thursday night, as a jaw-dropping 70 million viewers tuned in to see the first and only vice presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to Nielsen estimates.
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