Nielsen Ratings
Saturday, 21. May 2005, 01:07:37
I dropped my Nielsen logs in the mail the other day, thinking the analyst who ultimately peruses my ecclectic scribbles will find an odd, statistically insignificant record of what Christine or I watched for a week.
No doubt it will conjur images of hopelessly pretentious, chai sipping pseudo intellectualls with thick glasses, all of which more or less fit.
I have 180 channels, but Christine automatically tunes to PBS first. Sure we logged "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," the only two shows everybody watches anymore, but aside from that it was a mixture of DVR'd British mysteries, Alias Smith and Jones reruns--my family watched Flip Wilson in 1971--HGTV programming, TV Land and old monster movies.
I don't know what trends we might help an analyst glean, but it should indicate we watch a lot of things that were on a couple of weeks ago when we get around to them, and that we are spread across a broad spectrum. Not as many of us are converging on the same things at the same time any more, except maybe for Locke and his hatch or Bree Vandecamp and her muffins.
That's all we'll sit still for, everything else gets written to the hard drive.
No doubt it will conjur images of hopelessly pretentious, chai sipping pseudo intellectualls with thick glasses, all of which more or less fit.
I have 180 channels, but Christine automatically tunes to PBS first. Sure we logged "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," the only two shows everybody watches anymore, but aside from that it was a mixture of DVR'd British mysteries, Alias Smith and Jones reruns--my family watched Flip Wilson in 1971--HGTV programming, TV Land and old monster movies.
I don't know what trends we might help an analyst glean, but it should indicate we watch a lot of things that were on a couple of weeks ago when we get around to them, and that we are spread across a broad spectrum. Not as many of us are converging on the same things at the same time any more, except maybe for Locke and his hatch or Bree Vandecamp and her muffins.
That's all we'll sit still for, everything else gets written to the hard drive.
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