I see programs that have been rated low because only 3 million watched it, but no-one asked me if I had.
2006-12-21 09:11:53 · 14 answers · asked by BrilliantPomegranate 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention "ratings" they are generally referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. Nielsen Ratings are offered in over forty countries.
2006-12-21 09:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a group of people who have chips on their TV or sky box or whatever and they send a signal to a company the company then counts up how many out of these people watch dr who then get an average. They then use this against the amount of people who have tv's and this gives them a rough estimate.
2016-05-23 07:10:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a sample of people who agree to have their TV watching monitored for a reduction in the licence fee. They work out from them how many of the population is watching, so if half of the sample watched a program they assume that half the country watched it.
2006-12-21 09:15:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are there so many Yanks answering questions on the UK site.
The figures are never 100% accurate, as they conduct surveys on the street, and use digi-box details to work out how many people have 'watched' the programme.
2006-12-21 09:19:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They use a ratings system to measure how many people are watching at any given time.
2006-12-21 09:15:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nielsen ratings - they pay people to watch TV and send them a list of what they watched.
2006-12-21 09:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for tv a company called neilson takes a statisical average from the familes that have their black boxes attached and for radio a company called arbitron has people fill out logs
2006-12-21 09:20:55 · answer #7 · answered by badmts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
research by polling is done by a company called Nielsen Media Research
2006-12-21 10:53:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they set a random number of test familys up with special sets, this is set through a broad spectrum of the country and society. this is then used to give a mean average of who watches what.
2006-12-21 09:14:51 · answer #9 · answered by suzie1968uk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neilson ratings give the average.
2006-12-21 09:15:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋