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Secrets of a May 'Nielsen Family'

Bob Sellers | Posted 05.29.2012

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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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'Idol' Continues Downward Ratings Spiral

AP | Posted 05.25.2012

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NEW YORK — Nearly 22 million TV viewers seems like a lot – but for an "American Idol" season-ender, it's a new low. The crowd that tuned ...

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Mad Men: A Great Leaper Forward? Joan, Jag, Don's Return to Advertising (And Other, er, Treks)

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Culture News, Jaguar, James Bond, TV Ratings, Christina Hendricks, Pete Campbell, Jared Harris, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Television News, Mao Zedong, Mad Men, Star Trek, TV News

"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.

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Nielsen in the New Age

Bethany McHugh | Posted 05.22.2012

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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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The Daily Szep -- Violence on TV

Paul Szep | Posted 05.04.2012

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Sex Is Bad

Evan Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2012

Welcome to TV in America, where violence, no matter how malicious or senseless, is just fine but sex is decried, maligned and verboten in all but the most secure corners of the schedule. TV's ban on sexuality not only covers scenes of nudity or sexual acts, but our very language itself.

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Is 'Two And A Half Men' In Danger?

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, TV Ratings, Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men Ratings, Two and a Half Men Season 9, Slidewide, Two and a Half Men, Cbs, Reality-Free, Ashton Kutcher, TV News

Is "Two and a Half Men" in danger of being canceled? The show hit a series low in the Nielsen ratings on Mon., April 9 and has yet to receive an offic...

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'30 Rock' & 'Community' Hit Ratings Lows: Fans Sound Off!

Posted 04.06.2012

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"30 Rock" and "Community" hit series low ratings this week on Thurs., April 5. According to EW, 2.8 million people watched "30 Rock" and 3.1 millio...

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'Game Of Thrones' Season 2 Debuts Big

Posted 04.03.2012

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War is here and so are the numbers! "Game of Thrones" Season 2 debuted to quite a sizable audience for HBO. According to EW, 3.9 million viewers watch...

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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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'Fringe' Hits New Low in Ratings'

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 03.24.2012

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Better luck next time, Fringe. Returning after one month off television screens, Fox's cult sci-fi drama posted a series low in the key advertiser-...

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'Dancing With The Stars' Losing Its Luster?

Posted 03.20.2012

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Has the ballroom lost its sheen? "Dancing With the Stars" Season 14 kicked off on Monday with 18.5 million viewers tuning in, but was down from the pr...

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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

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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'The Walking Dead' Finale Ratings Shatter Record

Posted 03.19.2012

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"The Walking Dead" closed its Season 2 with lots of blood, guts, zombies and big ratings. The Season 2 finale (9 p.m. ET on AMC) brought in 9 million ...

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Did 'Community' Really Beat 'Idol'?!

Posted 03.16.2012

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The darkest timeline is over: "Community" is back on NBC and with solid ratings to boot. According to NBC, the midseason premiere of "Community" broug...

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'Community' Is Back, But For How Long?

Posted 03.13.2012

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The darkest timeline is almost over: "Community" is finally coming back (Thurs., March 15, 8 p.m. on NBC). In November, NBC revealed it was pullin...

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Network TV News to Adapt AND Die

David Tereshchuk | Posted 05.01.2012

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The seeds of failure? I'd say they reside in the tone of "we are giving you our grand vision of what you need" that pervades this now grandstanding news division's programming as a whole.

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Who's That Daytona 500 Driver?

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.02.2012

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Any sport that stages its Super Bowl at the start of its official season deserves attention. But NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Sunday could still be mighty ...

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'Downton Abbey' Finale Breaks PBS Ratings Records

Posted 02.23.2012

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While it may not have been the Granthams strongest season, the Season 2 finale of "Downton Abbey" earned PBS its highest overnight ratings since 2009'...

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'NCIS,' 'American Idol' & 'The Voice' Come Out On Top

AP | By FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 02.22.2012

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NEW YORK -- Viewers gave CBS the week's most-watched show along with 21 others in the top 30 ranking. Fox was represented only by its two editions of...

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'The Walking Dead' Smashes Ratings Records

Posted 02.13.2012

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AMC's "The Walking Dead" broke cable records with its midseason premiere. "The Walking Dead" returned on Sun., Feb. 12 to more than 8 million viewers,...

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TV Ratings Released For Chelsea-Man U On Fox

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — Manchester United's 3-3 tie with Chelsea last Sunday was seen by 1,377,000 viewers on Fox, up slightly from the network's first live...

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'American Idol' vs. 'The Voice' Ratings

Posted 02.09.2012

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Is "American Idol's" reign over after 11 seasons? The Wed., Feb. 8 show earned a 6.0 rating in the advertiser's coveted 18-49 demographic, which w...

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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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Is 'Smash' A Ratings Hit For NBC?

Posted 02.09.2012

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Will "Smash" be the ratings hit NBC needs? So far, so good. According to the network, the show brought in 11.5 million viewers with a 3.8 rating in th...

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