2006-07-10 14:48:51 · 12 answers · asked by ReportWriter 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
They use media research companies, who come and install devices on your TV to tell what you're watching. You keep a watch diary too. Nielsen Media Research does that.
2006-07-10 14:51:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To find out who is watching TV and what they are watching, the company gets around 5,000 households to agree to be a part of the representative sample for the national ratings estimates. Nielsen's statistics show that 99 million households have TVs in the United States, so Nielsen's sample is not very large. The key, therefore, is to be sure the sample is representative. Then TVs, homes, programs, and people are measured in a variety of ways."
See the web site below for more info.
2006-07-10 15:00:35 · answer #2 · answered by EdmondDoc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They hire a company Called Nealson Rating company. This company pays people to put a box on their tv to record what they watch and when. They tally up all the data from all the boxes and come up with statistics. Then they sell it to whoever needs it, like the tv networks.
2006-07-10 14:52:26 · answer #3 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's this thing called Nielsen's ratings, and they are recorded by people filling out on a piece of paper what they watched. They could theoretically lie, but there'd be no point to it.
2006-07-10 14:52:51 · answer #4 · answered by mbezlr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they could tell. They use a device that visual show unit your interest on the computer, the television you watch and radio you hearken to . the single i understand is executed by employing Neilsen score. You get a a CD and also you acquire on your computer and it video show instruments all of your interest. you also get surveys. they do no longer understand what you watch in case you at the instantaneous are not monitored.
2016-11-06 04:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they send out surveys. they also have the nelson ratings where they pick a number of families in the usa and have them hook up an attachment to their tv that lets the nelson pole find out what they are watching
2006-07-10 14:54:23 · answer #6 · answered by ALPHAOMEGA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just like cable internet it sends signals through and the number of signals on a specific frequency are picked up by the other side and counted
2006-07-10 14:51:44 · answer #7 · answered by kenshiro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they do random surveys and gather their statistics from them. Gee, no one ever called me to see what I was watching. Hmmm maybe there are spies in the cable.
2006-07-10 14:58:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They watch and see how many people flush their toilets during their commercials, it's a matter of math
2006-07-10 14:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think by the satellite picking up the signal.
2006-07-10 14:51:39 · answer #10 · answered by murillo3193@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋