But You Didn’t Believe TV Ratings Anyway, Did You?
“Nielsen has admitted to recently discovering a ‘technical error’ that has impacted national network television ratings over the past several months.”
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Multidisciplinary Public Art Event Actually Wins TV Ratings (It Was Amazingly Popular In Person, Too)
Lumenocity, a collaboration between the Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Ballet, and video artists Brave Berlin – projecting intricate images onto the façade of Music Hall – was that media market’s top-rated TV broadcast last Saturday. And all 42,500 free tickets available for the three-night run were snapped up in 12 minutes. (includes video)
Twitter TV Ratings – What Do They Mean?
“It turns out the shows most seen on Twitter aren’t always the shows most seen on TV, and the discrepancy illustrates just how much more there is to learn about what a tweet about a TV show means.”
How DVRs Are Changing TV Ratings
“The daily ratings are in many ways a mirage now, sure to change significantly once the people who time-shift their television viewing are taken into account. In fact, because of that behavior, there has been a change in the standings.”
With Flat TV Ratings, Has Oscar Lost His Pre-Eminent Cultural Status?
“Hollywood has started coming to grips with one of its biggest worries: Is this the new normal for the Oscars? A diminished attraction that ranks well behind the Super Bowl and a host of playoff games, and has even been eclipsed by a surging, better-suited-to-the social-media-age Grammys?”
Surprise: Grammy TV Ratings Were Higher Than Oscar’s
The Oscars weren’t even the most-watched awards show on television this month. The Grammys Got an audience of 39.9 million. “The Nielsen Co. estimated Monday that 39.3 million people watched the Oscars on ABC Sunday night, up from the 37.9 million viewers during the much-panned 2011 show where James Franco and Anne Hathaway shared hosting … Continue reading “Surprise: Grammy TV Ratings Were Higher Than Oscar’s”
American TV Ratings Sink To New Lows Last Week
“CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox together had the fewest prime-time viewers last week in two decades of record-keeping, the Nielsen Co. said. Given the dominance of the big broadcasters before then, you’d probably have to go back to the early days of television to find such a collective shrug.”
CBC TV Ratings Are But. Has Programming Dumbed Down?
Canada’s national broadcaster has new hits but producers say the network is only interested in safe, warm and fuzzy…
US TV Ratings Stabilize After Years Of Decline
“Ratings are up 2 percent after falling for several seasons. I’m not suggesting the suits break open 11,000 bottles of champagne, but there is plenty of cause to pop a can of ginger ale. Freshman shows have reinvigorated a medium that once seemed headed the way of the typewriter, or Amy Winehouse’s career.”
Reality TV Ratings Take Big Drop Down Under
For the past decade, reality TV has dominated in Australia. Not this season, though. “The re-invigoration of drama may be signalling the demise, or at least the decline, of the past decade’s reality-TV trend. Does this trend spell a return to the golden era of Australian TV drama?”