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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Ratings

It's thanks to those chucklefucks every good show gets canceled.

>>1828835
It doesn't tell you shit.

Does anyone actually know someone participating in it?

>>1828885
My family was for awhile. I stopped sending in the surveys when seaQuest was cancelled. All my efforts were for naught. :(

>>1828891
How are you chosen to participate?

>>1828901
No idea. A survey booklet showed up in the mail one day.

>>1828912
>>1828901
>>1828891
Some people get surveys (my mom did and just checked off Telemundo 24/7 for the whole week o_0 ) and some have tuner boxes that act like a cable box which notes what they watch and when they watch it.

It's a broken system. Considering the millions that shit themselves stupid whenever something like Firefly, Jericho, or Family Guy gets canceled, the networks should develop a better system of gauging popular opinion (possibly by, I don't know... listening to popular opinion).

>>1829277
It is impossible to listen to the popular opinion. Every where you go, people like different things. Different things are popular amongst certain groups.

Besides that. The execs don't really care. As long as they're making money.

Its actually a huge jerryrig system so they can get advertisers buying airtime as much as possible. The rest is all smoke and mirrors, more or less.

So why they say something like "40% of all TVs that were on were tuned to the Bears game" they really mean the 10,000 or so(if even that many) that they then USING THE MAGIC OF STATISTICS applied to the entire population.

I dunno about anyone else, but my pamphlet showed up with $30 cash. Doomed system or not, getting paid to tell people I watched porn for three days straight is a reason to keep it around.