Word: meters
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Last fall CBS signed a contract with AGB Television Research, a British ratings service, as a secondary statistical source. Starting this September, AGB will offer national ratings in the U.S. based on a new technology called people meters. Because AGB's sample viewers are asked to identify themselves when they watch TV by punching digits on a specially programmed, remote channel control, some experts predict the new system will give more reliable readings than the usual methods. The threat of this new technology from AGB hastened Nielsen's decision to convert to a system of people-meter ratings by September...
...results have apparently disturbed the networks. People-meter ratings have turned out to be as much as 10% lower than the traditional readings. Some - broadcast executives believe younger viewers record their habits more faithfully on the new meters, while older people who are not comfortable with high-tech gadgets ignore them. CBS complains that Nielsen's people-meter sample is skewed disproportionately to families with cable, who watch less network...
...emotional speeches. He was criticized by radical leftists in the Labor Party for moving it too far toward the center. But his eloquent campaign attacks against Tory parsimony won him respect as a warm, compassionate leader. In one crowd-pleasing piece of oratory last week, he evoked the meter of Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas when he declared there were just four more days left of "hope-destroying, unemploying, care-cutting, factory-shutting, nation-splitting, poor-hitting, truth-mangling, freedom-strangling Toryism...
DEFEATED. Edwin Moses, 31, U.S. 400-meter hurdles runner, Olympic champion (1976, 1984) and world-record holder whose 122-race winning streak, beginning in 1977, was the longest of any event in track history; by Danny Harris, 21, of Iowa State University, three-time collegiate champion in the event; in Madrid...
...risk to this wheel of parking fortune: parking tickets and towings. One day, Walser left her car in Harvard Square. The only parking spot she could find was one which had been blocked off by "No Parking" signs and had a fluorescent "No Parking" sticker on the meter. In a desperate attempt, Walser moved the signs, cut off the sticker, put money in the meter, and left...