Nielsen Ratings facts
While investigating facts about Nielsen Ratings 2019 and Nielsen Ratings How To Participate, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are considered by Nielsen to be entirely separate networks for ratings purposes.
how nielsen ratings work?
NBC's The Office was on the chopping block due to its low Nielsen ratings, but was saved by its popularity in the iTunes Store
What nielsen ratings measure?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what is nielsen ratings. Here are 12 of the best facts about Nielsen Ratings This Week and Nielsen Ratings Top 100 I managed to collect.
what nielsen ratings measure crossword?
-
The highest Nielsen rating for any basketball game in the US, college or pro, is still the 1979 NCAA Championship between Michigan State (with Magic Johnson) and Indiana State (with Larry Bird)
-
In it's nine seasons, The Office (US version) never cracked the top-50 in Nielsen ratings with an average rank of #72.
-
About Nielsen Ratings, using Set Meters, which are small devices connected to televisions in recruited homes- This is how those infamous " TV Ratings" used to be determined before the digital age-
-
The Nielsen company founder, Arthur C. Nielsen, invented "market share" in 1932, becoming the first to offer market research that now powers the NYT Best Seller list, most TV ratings and radio charts. Nielsen Holdings reported 2016 revenue of $6.6bn.
-
In 1951, the first year Nielsen released television ratings, the most-watched series was Texaco Star Theater with a 61.6 rating. The 2017 winner (Sunday Night Football) scored only a 12.2.
-
Since 1954 Nielsen ratings have used TV diaries, whereby households write in their TV viewing habits for a week. The Nielsen Company then sends people out to collect these diaries from the Northeast to the West hence the term 'Sweeps Week'.
-
The term "sweeps" to describe the period when TV networks try to spike their rating, dates from 1954 when Nielsen collected TV-watching diaries from households in the eastern U.S. first; from there they would "sweep" west.
-
The sitcom Cheers finished the week of its debut nearly last in the Nielsen ratings.
-
Nielsen does more than TV rating, they track Snack sales by week!
-
In 1987 a local news network ran a documentary profiling "Nielsen families" to manipulate Nielsen ratings.
Nielsen Ratings data charts
For your convenience take a look at Nielsen Ratings figures with stats and charts presented as graphic.
