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[Q] TV Ratings

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SmoKing2012
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States385 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-11 01:48:39
February 11 2009 01:48 GMT
#1
So I was wondering, when a tv station says a show of theirs got so-and-so million viewers, how much of the show does a person have to watch to be considered a viewer? Do you need to watch at least 12 minutes (of a 22 minute show) to be counted as a viewer? What if you're just skimming by? Do they factor in whether or not you watched the commercials?



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SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
February 11 2009 01:56 GMT
#2
look up nielsen ratings
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sixghost
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2096 Posts
February 11 2009 01:56 GMT
#3
There's not some magic device in everyone's TV that transmits what shows you are watching to some computer somewhere.

They just have a small % of the population record what shows they watch and then they adjust those numbers.
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SmoKing2012
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States385 Posts
February 11 2009 02:17 GMT
#4
On February 11 2009 10:56 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
look up nielsen ratings

Yea I did, I know they take a sample of 5000 and record what shows they watch, but I found no mention of how many minutes of the show must be watched by the person to qualify them as a 'viewer'.
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32282 Posts
February 11 2009 02:34 GMT
#5
On February 11 2009 11:17 SmoKing2012 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2009 10:56 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
look up nielsen ratings

Yea I did, I know they take a sample of 5000 and record what shows they watch, but I found no mention of how many minutes of the show must be watched by the person to qualify them as a 'viewer'.


I don't know how it works in USA. In argentina we used to have hour by hour ratings. Nowadays the rating frames are split into 10 minutes or 1 minute, can't remember. So im guessing that if someone watches for that whole minute or 10 minutes that show gets a +1 for that frame.

This is speculation based on what I read some time ago though.
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United States8182 Posts
February 11 2009 03:15 GMT
#6
basically you can't trust any sort of stats on how many people view a tv show
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