Nielsen

News versus Newspapers

Stephen's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

This is an interesting study. We've been reading so much lately on the downturns in newspaperland but this is the most recent study I've seen combining sources of news and comparing readership. I can certainly see that many of the people I know who no longer read a print newspaper continue to be as well or better informed about current events. Three Quarters of Adults are Reading Newspapers, in Print...

Obama, Palin: FOX News draws, both

The Swamp (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

by Mark Silva Sarah Palin was box office on FOX News this week - handing Sean Hannity one of his highest-rated shows. Someone else drew a crowd at FOX this week, too: President Barack Obama. While Hannity's audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at the start of her national book tour well exceeded the 2 million-plus turnout that the FOX evening news got with...

Nielsen to Scrap Live Only Ratings; 4As Fights Back

Mediabuyerplanner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Nielsen has decided to eliminate live-only ratings in major local TV markets in favor of live-plus-same-day ratings come January - a move which has the American Association of Advertising Agencies up...

CMA's boost ABC ratings

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year. The network, which narrowly lost to CBS for the distinction of America's most popular TV network last week, aired the Country Music Association awards to 17.2 million people, according to the Nielsen Company. ABC also did well with an "In the Spotlight" special in which Robin Roberts interviewed stars including Carrie...

• ABC scores big with country music - The Washington Times
• Country music awards boost ABC in the ratings - kansascity.com

Radio: Ando Could Be the New Arbitron

INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

By Jerry Del Colliano If you’ve been watching the dust up over Ando Media’s new ratings rules for online streaming, you can see some radio people are getting themselves all worked up needlessly. Ando has done a few positive things in spite of the fact that some radio people are getting upset and have forced them to push back a bit. The radio industry hates change. On top of that, radio...

Nielsen delivers ratings information today, expects normal operations to resume

The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

I've been waylaid for much of today by problems with a virus in my office computer, so apologies for the lack of posts today. But Nielsen has begun reporting TV ratings reports again after a power outage in Oldsmar during...

Poll Dancing

HoseMaster of Wine (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

My first HoseMaster of Wine survey results are in. Not that anyone cares. To be honest, I only conducted the survey to see how many people would respond, hoping that there would be an avalanche of responders. There were 30 folks who were kind enough to fill out the survey. Hardly an avalanche. More like the wine blog world unleashing a loud, collective yawn. I had optimistically hoped for 50 responses,...

Ratings Delayed, But ‘Miami’ Emerges Victorious

CSI Files (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Ratings for Monday, November 16 were delayed due to a power outage at Nielsen’s data processing facility, but now the numbers are out and the latest episode of CSI: Miami came out on top in the 10:00pm hour. “Point of Impact” had 13.49 million overall viewers, putting it ahead of Castle (10.86 million) and The [...]

Nielsen says Oldsmar power outage will prevent release of TV ratings today

The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

When I toured The Nielsen Company's $80-million, 475,000-square-foot data processing center in Oldsmar a few years ago, officials presented a facility poised to withstand just about anything the Tampa Bay area could dish out. A fortified data collection area was...

Where Are the Nielsen Ratings

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

TVbytheNumbers and James Hibberd are reporting that Nielsen ratings are delayed today because of a power outage down at the Nielsen offices in Oldsmar, Florida. Usually by this time we've posted evening news ratings for the previous week as well as the cable news ratings from the weekend. Neilsen has had issues in the past with delays involving the Oldsmar offices. New Career Opportunities Daily:...

Preschoolers pacified with TV programming

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

What do American kids ages 2 to 5 do an average of 32 hours a week? It's not napping, playing outside or building spaceships out of Legos. It's watching TV, according to a new report released by Nielsen, the ratings company. According to the report, television-watching is at an eight-year high with children ages 2 to 5 leading the way, closely followed by children ages 6 to 11, who watch an average...

Leading Off: NFL continues to grow despite a bad economy

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

If you're reading this column, chances are you're planning to watch an NFL game today. TV ratings for the NFL this season have skyrocketed. The average audience is up 15 percent from last season – the largest one-year increase in two decades. In the first two months of the season, the NFL says it has averaged 17.2 million viewers per game. For more perspective, look at the latest Nielsen ratings....

Why Don't People Make Fun Of Bloomberg Like They Do Fox Biz?

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Vanity Fair wonders: "Is Fox Business Network A Lost Cause?" The answer is almost certainly yes, and you could have said that 12 months ago, but this part of the article (via @felixsalmon ) is interesting Like Fox Business, Bloomberg TV is still presumably stuck below the Nielsen threshold of 35,000, since it isn’t rated either. Just over a year ago, Bloomberg L.P., home to the news...

That is Mr. Footnote to you!

San Antonio's Classical Oasis (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

In the arts cream rises to the top and this process is moved along by teachers, academics and Nielsen ratings. Soon we end up with a shorthand view of the world, "Mozart was a perfect musical machine" "Beethoven is the greatest musical architect" and "Bach is the greatest musician of all time"- certainly interesting opinions, but what about the thousands and thousands...

Top 30 Most-Watched Fights on Live Event...

Ivan's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Top 30 Most-Watched Fights on Live Event Broadcasts in U.S. MMA History by Ivan Trembow Ratings figures for individual MMA fights are typically based on quarter-hour ratings, which measure the average viewership for an entire 15-minute period. Given that some fights last for well over 15 minutes and some fights last for well under 15 minutes, measuring a fight's average viewership based on quarter-hour...