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Nielsen Deems Latinos Important Enough To Include In Overall TV Ratings

Los Angeles Times   |  Meg James   |   August 27, 2007 07:33 AM

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After decades of being shunted to the sidelines, Spanish-language media outlets have now joined the big leagues of TV research.

Ratings giant Nielsen Media Research today plans to pull the plug on a separate service that it created 15 years ago to measure the size of Latino TV audiences. Latinos are now so important to the overall TV ratings picture that it would be misleading to relegate them to a separate system.

So Nielsen's sole source for national ratings will come from its influential "people meter" survey, which is produced daily from the TV program choices made by viewers in about 12,000 homes equipped with Nielsen set-top boxes. That panel includes about 1,400 Latino families.

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- mediamarv I'm a Fan of mediamarv permalink
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The real question is, how many Neilsen employees speak spanish?
And how do we know that there are nearly 1400 latino families, Neilsen doesn't identify them..
I think it's all fantasy and ouija boards.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:41 AM on 08/28/2007
- realitytrumpsbull I'm a Fan of realitytrumpsbull permalink

I think separating things by ethnicity just perpetuates racism...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:45 PM on 08/27/2007
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