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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Despite the two cancellations, CBS is dominating the November ratings period."

Cite? Ratings? Link? No, the article provides no data BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY YET. We're still IN the sweeps period - you get the ratings after the sweep is over. This little gratuitous sentence is whole fiction and has no place in the article.

Michael

6 posted on 11/19/2003 2:36:22 PM PST by Wright is right! (Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
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To: Wright is right!
Actually, the article is correct... CBS had 6 of the top 10 rated shows last week:

http://tv.yahoo.com/nielsen/
16 posted on 11/19/2003 2:47:23 PM PST by So Cal Rocket
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To: Wright is right!
Michael,

Nielsen Media Research collects audience data among a specific sample of homes across the 55 "Metered" markets on a 24-7-365 basis and there is a National "NTI" number available as well. These National and Metered Market "ratings" provide only Household-level detail.

"Sweeps" - there are four "Major" ones in a year: November, February, May and July (In the same order of relative importance) - produce detail on WHO in those households is watching what across ALL 210 DMA's for those months only.

Technically, there are ratings figures available by 10 AM the following day for any broadcast...what is NOT available yet is the ratings detail for the entire sweep period. In the sweeps, Nielsen collects/estimates program performance among demographic groups....THAT level of detail is released after the sweep is over.

28 posted on 11/19/2003 3:13:37 PM PST by Range Rover (If you feel you don't love me, feel again.)
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To: Wright is right!
Despite the two cancellations, CBS is dominating the November ratings period."

Cite? Ratings? Link? No, the article provides no data BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY YET. We're still IN the sweeps period - you get the ratings after the sweep is over. This little gratuitous sentence is whole fiction and has no place in the article

They are winning the rationgs night to night per say...so if they win the majority of the nights then they will most likely win sweeps ratings come in night to night....

39 posted on 11/19/2003 3:57:04 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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