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A monitor that checks that the encoder is working properly. The wearable Portable People Meter carried by each panelist. A base station for each PPM, where each panelist in the household places it overnight to recharge the battery. A portable charger for vacations and other trips away from the home base. PPM original concept requires the base ...
Time spent listening(TSL) is one of the measurements surveyed by Nielsen Audioin determining ratings for radio stations in the United States. It is the equivalent of AverageTime Exposed (ATE), Daily or Weekly. TSL is defined as the amount of time the average listener surveyed spent listening to each radio station at one time, before changing ...
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with Los Angeles –based Coffin, Cooper, and Clay in the early 1950s. [ 2 ]
Nielsen Media Research ( NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding ...
The People Meter is an electronic method of television measurement that moved from active and diary-based to passive and meter-monitored. The meter also recorded real time simultaneously viewing, reducing memory bias. Because Audits of Great Britain (AGB) had just entered the U.S. market executing similar technology, Nielsen felt the need to ...
The A.C. Nielsen company, which continues to measure television ratings today, took over American radio's ratings beginning with the 1949–50 radio season and ending in 1955–56. [40] During this era, nearly all of radio's most popular programs were broadcast on one of three networks: NBC Red, NBC Blue, or CBS' Columbia network.
In radio, Numeris is the main provider of ratings services. The company has traditionally used a diary-based system for tracking radio audience habits and this system is still used in most markets. In Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary ratings are now measured using the Portable People Meter (PPM) technology. [7]
Print/export Download as PDF; ... This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1987–88 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1 ...