Nielsen ratings

[Vegetable]

Hi everyone.. My Partner of 15 years has the worst taste in cable TV.. He watches the kardashians (spelling?), that b*tch who has 50 kids, that skantch from NJ who thinks she can speak to the dead, etc.. I'm certain that TLC is ironically the host of most of these non-educational shows.. Anyway.. When I finally get control of the TV at 10 PM I switch to Netflix and watch my truly educational shows [ enter any show on Netflix here]. My question is this.. When I switch onto netflix from cable are his seriously f-cked up shows getting ratings from me or should I turn it to the weather channel before finally switching to Netflix? Thanks!

[bimmette]

I don't know how the Nielsen ratings work, but wondering what B*tch you're referring to? The religious Duggar family? Because I don't agree with them, but why you calling her a B*tch? She actually seems pretty nice.

[NEFARIOUS]

I have no idea how they're calculated either, but I imagine the 2 being on a completely different system, with cable having a bit of a timer associated with a channel (e.g. your S/O watched channel 201 between 8PM and 8:30), and Netflix uses a view count similar to YouTube.

[P1]

Seperate systems mate...

[Delta0311]

Originally Posted by Vegetable

Hi everyone.. My Partner of 15 years has the worst taste in cable TV.. He watches the kardashians (spelling?), that b*tch who has 50 kids, that skantch from NJ who thinks she can speak to the dead, etc.. I'm certain that TLC is ironically the host of most of these non-educational shows.. Anyway.. When I finally get control of the TV at 10 PM I switch to Netflix and watch my truly educational shows [ enter any show on Netflix here]. My question is this.. When I switch onto netflix from cable are his seriously f-cked up shows getting ratings from me or should I turn it to the weather channel before finally switching to Netflix? Thanks!

Hey!! That crazy, "I see dead people bitch", is from LONG ISLAND not NJ. Get your facts right!!! Please stop associating us with every piece of garbage that is on TV; we are still getting over the Jersey Shore BS. Plus you're from Cali; you assholes are the ones who produce all this mind numbing shit!!!!

[Whostheboss]

Lol poor OP asked a question and is getting smacked hard.

I'm not 100% but i think the answer is yes. You should probably switch to weather or sports before turning on Netflix.

[fecurtis]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Hey!! That crazy, "I see dead people bitch", is from LONG ISLAND not NJ. Get your facts right!!! Please stop associating us with every piece of garbage that is on TV; we are still getting over the Jersey Shore BS. Plus you're from Cali; you assholes are the ones who produce all this mind numbing shit!!!!

You know in Japan they called Jersey Shore the Macaroni Rascals?

Always got a kick out of that.

As for OP's question, I have no idea how the ratings are calculated, something I never thought about before. Just block TLC, E!, Bravo etc with a child lock.

I'm sure your partner (random question, is it considered rude or something to just say bf or husband or whatever? saying "partner" always seemed super PC to me) would love that.

[Whostheboss]

Originally Posted by fecurtis

...(random question, is it considered rude or something to just say bf or husband or whatever? saying "partner" always seemed super PC to me) ...

I'm guessing it's homosexual relationship.

But yea, either block the channels or switch to other channels before turning to Netflix

[SCHMOUPE]

I work in advertising and deal with Nielsen pretty often. OP, do you have a Nielsen set top box? It is a small box that gets plugged into your cable box. If not, your TV viewership has no impact on Nielsen ratings. I believe there is about 20K boxes out in the wild which roughly translates to 50K people they monitor.

To answer your original question, even if you have a Nielsen box, don't change the channel to make the ratings more normal . watch whatever you watch whenever you want. The Nielsen numbers are used in advertising to determine how valuable a spot of advertising during a show is. IE if 20 mill people watch a show, that spot has more value than a spot during a show only watched by 20k people.

[Billup]

TLC needs to change their name from "The Learning Channel" to "The Little Large Channel".

[upstatedoc]

I can see where this thread is heading..

[Alfisti]

I work in the industry, it's a fairly rigorous process, nothing is perfect but it's not half-arsed that's for sure. Sampling is taken very seriously.

[Vegetable]

Originally Posted by fecurtis

You know in Japan they called Jersey Shore the Macaroni Rascals?

Always got a kick out of that.

As for OP's question, I have no idea how the ratings are calculated, something I never thought about before. Just block TLC, E!, Bravo etc with a child lock.

I'm sure your partner (random question, is it considered rude or something to just say bf or husband or whatever? saying "partner" always seemed super PC to me) would love that.

Purfect idea with the child lock..No it's not considered rude to say Bf or husband and I agree "partner" sounds way too PC. From now on I'm sticking to good old " Fxck buddy."

[fecurtis]

Originally Posted by Whostheboss

I'm guessing it's homosexual relationship.

But yea, either block the channels or switch to other channels before turning to Netflix

That's what I got from it, I still see nothing wrong with using husband, wife, bf, gf. No reason to treat it differently than a heterosexual relationship in what you call your SO.

[Vegetable]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Hey!! That crazy, "I see dead people bitch", is from LONG ISLAND not NJ. Get your facts right!!! Please stop associating us with every piece of garbage that is on TV; we are still getting over the Jersey Shore BS. Plus you're from Cali; you assholes are the ones who produce all this mind numbing shit!!!!

Truly sorry ..

[Vegetable]

Originally Posted by Billup

TLC needs to change their name from "The Learning Channel" to "The Little Large Channel".

[fecurtis]

Originally Posted by Vegetable

Truly sorry ..

"Lawn Guyland" and NJ are all the same to us.

[Delta0311]

Originally Posted by fecurtis

"Lawn Guyland" and NJ are all the same to us.

LOL..

Well anything south of the mason dixon line is pretty much a foreign country to us.

[NEFARIOUS]

Originally Posted by SCHMOUPE

I work in advertising and deal with Nielsen pretty often. OP, do you have a Nielsen set top box? It is a small box that gets plugged into your cable box. If not, your TV viewership has no impact on Nielsen ratings. I believe there is about 20K boxes out in the wild which roughly translates to 50K people they monitor.

To answer your original question, even if you have a Nielsen box, don't change the channel to make the ratings more normal . watch whatever you watch whenever you want. The Nielsen numbers are used in advertising to determine how valuable a spot of advertising during a show is. IE if 20 mill people watch a show, that spot has more value than a spot during a show only watched by 20k people.

Then out of even more curiosity, how is radio broadcast or even air TV measured, i.e. what determines whether the station you're listening to will still remain a station for kick-ass hard rock or becomes a staticy, Spanish radio station?

[UncleWede]

^ How many times you buy something and tell the vendor "I heard it on The Sound"

vs.

"Ellos digan que menos precios cuando dice Lo Mejor 97.4"

[SCHMOUPE]

Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

Then out of even more curiosity, how is radio broadcast or even air TV measured, i.e. what determines whether the station you're listening to will still remain a station for kick-ass hard rock or becomes a staticy, Spanish radio station?

I am not fully up to speed on off the air tv viewing. As far as I know, in US, you need a digital converter to watch over the air tv which in turn would get plugged into your Nielsen Box.

For radio they keep track 2 ways, it is either using journals and diaries (old school) or using PPM (portable people meter) which acts like a bastrad child of shazam and a pager. It listens wherever you go and picks up little tags played on radio and reports them back to Nielsen.

[jt335i]

Wonder if they keep track of how many people change the channel when the commercials come on. I F***ing hate commercials.