NEW YORK — Nielsen Media Research has conceded making an error and is performing a recount after the company's ratings on Tuesday initially indi...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.06.2009 | Media
In what one television executive called an unprecedented data delay, Nielsen Media Research failed to provide overnight TV ratings for four days this ...
Nielsen Wire | Posted 03.19.2009 | Business
At a time when financial institutions are pulling back on their advertising, a new study from Nielsen IAG shows that consumer confidence in the long-t...
Judy Wieder | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment
As a non-straight woman living in California, currently married to my partner, but living in fear of Prop 8's outcome, it kills me to see married couples slaughtering each other on a weekly basis.
New York Times | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media
The Nielsen Company is entering the radio ratings business in the United States. In a deal to be announced Tuesday, the radio broadcaster Cumulus M...
McClatchy | Glenn Garvin | Posted 09.27.2008 | Media
Preliminary Nielsen data from 55 cities where it operates so-called "people meters," set-top boxes that monitor television viewing, shows that a third...
Patricia Draznin | Posted 08.05.2008 | Entertainment
Up until last Tuesday, I assumed that my cable service transmitted a signal that could detect WHEN I was watching, WHAT I was watching, what I was EATING, and that it was my third piece.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Broadcast networks are the place to be for prime-time competitions _ if little else. Nine of the 20 most-watched programs on the net...
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media
Why the harsher focus on stories that might drive down Obama's numbers and less on those that might drive down Hillary's?
The New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 02.26.2008 | Media
Being part of a "Nielsen household" has long been a point of pride for people whose television habits are monitored by the Nielsen Company. In exchang...
TV Newser | Posted 10.26.2007 | Media
As the flames are put out, the winds die down and the federal money comes in, the cable networks are adding up the ratings from their coverage of the ...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 10.24.2007 | Media
Google, which dominates the market for advertising on the Internet, seems to be hoping to do the same thing on television. The company is set to anno...
Variety | Rick Kissell | Posted 10.04.2007 | Media
ABC's critically adored drama "Pushing Daisies" opened well Wednesday night, winning its hour in key demos and teaming with "Private Practice" and "Di...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
The company that measures TV viewership announced a significant expansion Wednesday, saying it would triple the number of "Nielsen families" over the ...
AP | Beth Harris | Posted 09.17.2007 | Media
A big loser at this year's Emmy ceremony? The Emmys broadcast, which may have been the least-watched in history. Preliminary figures from Nielsen Med...
AP Via CNN | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media
With many viewers apparently outside enjoying summer's last hurrah, the broadcast television networks hit a negative ratings trifecta only a few weeks...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
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Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
Think Progress flags David Brooks telling...
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The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the...
Al Franken's been anointed as Minnesota's junior senator, but how did the...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
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AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.16.2009 | Media