2007-01-21 02:05:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
a few thousand people in the county have a set top box which records what they watch, I am pretty sure that the box gets programmed with how many people are watching and maybe their age, but I could have made that up... The figures get multiplied to get the national figure which I think is crap as how do they know that 12 million people watched a programme? maybe only the people with the set top box did...
2007-01-21 02:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by S B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Neillson Company have a system and formula for calculating the viewing and listening figures with good accurate results
2007-01-21 03:35:07 · answer #2 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A company called Neilsen Media Research collect data from a number of families and from that they are able to estimate the number of viewers for a particular show.
2007-01-21 02:11:36 · answer #3 · answered by Don E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nielsen Media is the well-known firm that compiles ratings for media firms. There are other firms that provide such information. Increasingly, the Internet provides firms with great information in the form of interactive programs such as the on-line voting for reality programming.
2007-01-21 02:17:08 · answer #4 · answered by david42 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nielsen ratings through families who agree to log which broadcast they are watching/hearing and send in the information.
2007-01-21 02:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They just make the numbers up ,how can a few people canvased speak for everybody they say 3.5 million watch "Big Brother" but most people you ask say they never watch it.!!!!!
2007-01-21 05:43:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋