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Ratings Pet Peeve #45: Pundit Wars and Politics
Today’s pet peeve: how some pop critics and observers try to read cable news ratings as a sign of which political philosophy is in the ascendancy, or even of which outlet is trusted. This pet peeve...
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Aren’t Ratings Meant to Go Up During Sweeps?
Traditionally, sweeps weeks are when shows marry characters, have special guests, and engage in other stunts to increase ratings. With the first sweeps weeks of the television season now behind us, the...
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Ratings Pet Peeve #32 – Are Ratings a Good Measure of the Popular?
There’s a certain simple logic to the idea that a show with higher ratings is more popular than one with lower ratings. But is popularity just about how many people watch something? Certainly, it would...
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Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?
Amidst all the record industry’s doom and gloom over digital piracy and declining CD sales, there has been one largely overlooked area of the market that’s actually been experiencing tremendous growth...
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences
The Nielsen Company, the company best known for providing television ratings, recently announced its plans to go public. Nielsen had been a publicly traded company in the 1990s, before being taken...
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Summer Media: American Pickers, Pawn Stars, and Shows About Stuff
During the past few weeks, after reading about them in the press and being urged by friends, I finally got around to watching American Pickers and Pawn Stars, a pair of History documentary reality TV...
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