Television Ratings

Secrets of a May 'Nielsen Family'

Bob Sellers | Posted 05.29.2012

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Bob Sellers

Based on my experience, keeping a Nielsel diary is a well-meaning but imperfect measuring system that suggests advertisers may be rolling the dice when they pay for ads designed to reach a particular audience.

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Nielsen in the New Age

Bethany McHugh | Posted 05.22.2012

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Bethany McHugh

It's astonishing that with all the technology available to us a more definitive method for measuring the popularity of TV shows hasn't been established.

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Quit Canceling The Shows We Love

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Cancellations, Television, Television Ratings, TV Shows, Human Target, Awake, Harry's Law, Bleep My Dad Says, TV News
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

Every spring, I'm forced to say good-bye to welcome visitors who've graced my home week after week. Yup, I'm talking about my favorite TV series that somehow find themselves on the chopping block even though millions of viewers enjoy them.

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Rise In Hockey Violence Draws Attack From Unexpected Group

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: NHL Playoffs, Commercials, Television Ratings, Hockey Fights, Advertising, Rodney Dangerfield, Nhl Playoffs 2012, Nhl, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Nbc, Hockey, Video, Business News

Ever hear the Rodney Dangerfield joke about how he went to a fight and a hockey game broke out? Sponsors of the NHL aren't laughing at the violence...

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Bad News For Spongebob And Friends

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.29.2012

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Though Nickelodeon once claimed a dip in its ratings was a technical error, it appears as though the network's troubles have not been resolved. Th...

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Why I'm Scared to Say Cougar Town Is the Best Job Ever

Christa Miller | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Marriage, TV Ratings, Cougar Town, Relationships, Television Ratings, Cougar Town Writer, Scrubs, Cougar Town Bill Lawrence, Cougar Town Ratings, Courteney Cox, Abc, Cougar Town Courteney Cox, Cougar Town Christa Miller, TV News
Christa Miller

It's an honor to work with my husband. I realize I am biased. I just think he is one of the best comedy writers/show-runners of all time.

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Ron Dicker

Super Bowl: Online Viewership Ratings Are In

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.07.2012

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The 2,105,441 viewers who watched NBC's first live stream broadcast of the Super Bowl discovered that the Internet experience still can't entirely rep...

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Networks Resort To Trickery In An Attempt To Lift Ratings

nytimes.com | BILL CARTER | Posted 04.03.2012

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This is the kind of programming sleight of hand that executives seize on as they seek to gain every possible edge in the television ratings game, at a...

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In Defense of "The Boob Tube"

Nora Zelevansky | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Tv Health, Watching Television, Huffpost Tv, TV Recaps, Tv Stress, TV Canada, Primetime, Television Ratings, TV News
Nora Zelevansky

For the last four weeks, I went without TV. And the weirdest thing happened: I didn't get any smarter. I didn't pen (or even read) the great American novel, listen to more NPR or spend extra time boning up on politics online. I can do that while watching TV, after all.

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NBC News May Be A Victim Of Network's Primetime Malaise

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 01.07.2012

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NEW YORK — Despite the slow, seemingly bottomless decline of NBC's prime-time lineup over the past decade, the network's other programming remai...

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Fox Rides World Series Wave

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 01.01.2012

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NEW YORK — A thrilling, seven-game conclusion to the World Series between St. Louis and Texas turned baseball's annual championship into a winne...

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The New TV Wasteland

nytimes.com | BILL CARTER | Posted 12.14.2011

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Saturday night has long been the loneliest night of the week in the television business, but lately it's been joined by another evening pining for vie...

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CBS Continues Ratings Domination

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.12.2011

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NEW YORK — CBS' strength in scripted material made for another non-competitive week in television ratings. Increasingly, it appears ABC, Fox an...

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Who Are the Joneser Boomers Keeping Up With?

Bernard Starr | Posted 12.11.2011

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Bernard Starr

If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize. Then you will know: It's one solid generation to reckon with.

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CBS Continues Ratings Supremacy

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.05.2011

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NEW YORK — Two weeks into a new television season, CBS is continuing its domination. The network, which has won eight of the past nine TV seaso...

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Simon Cowell Admits He Was Wrong!

AP | ALICIA RANCILIO | Posted 12.04.2011

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NEW YORK — Simon Cowell acknowledges that he regrets saying ratings less than 20 million for the U.S. version of "The X Factor" would be a failu...

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Are Sitcoms...Back?

nytimes.com | BILL CARTER | Posted 11.26.2011

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As dominant as "The X Factor" story was, it supplied only one of several plotlines that had television executives buzzing in the first week of the ne...

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UH-OH...

Posted 11.22.2011

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Fox's "The X Factor," Simon Cowell's newest venture and the American counterpart to the hugely popular British singing competition, debuted to underwh...

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Do Television Ratings Reflect Who We Truly Are?

Pat Mitchell | Posted 11.21.2011

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Pat Mitchell

Whether you love or hate reality television, you can't deny that it's been a massive cultural force in the last few years.

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Charlie Sheen, Ratings Magnet

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.21.2011

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NEW YORK — Both Ashton Kutcher and Charlie Sheen have something to brag about during their big nights on television. Kutcher's debut as Sheen's...

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NBC To NFL: THANK YOU

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.14.2011

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NEW YORK — The return of the National Football League, with two gripping prime-time games, sent NBC vaulting into the week's lead in Nielsen's t...

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USA Network Trounces Rivals

Adweek | September 28 2010 | Posted 10.25.2011

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Rival cable channels cannot conquer USA Network, they can only hope to contain it. With less than a week to go before the sun sets on another summe...

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Power to the People Works When People Claim the Power

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.24.2011

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Rev. Barbara Kaufmann

Does the media have responsibilities? When people are in positions of power or influence over others, is there an inherent obligation to tell the truth?

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Enthusiasm Not Curbed!

Posted 09.11.2011

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The premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm's eighth season was the show's most watched episode since 2004. The 10 p.m. broadcast drew 1.7 million viewers, u...

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CBS Reruns Hold Court In Summer Ratings

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 09.05.2011

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NEW YORK — There's little secret to what entertainment choices viewers want from the broadcast networks this summer: reruns on CBS and competiti...

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