Word: nielsen
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...Bakersfield P.D. (FOX) The little series that couldn't. This loopy comedy about a provincial police department provided more laughs than any other new show this season, yet its ratings have not budged beyond the Nielsen basement. After sticking with the show longer than expected, Fox is finally pulling it off the air. And so goes the saddest story...
...analyst predicts they will hit $400. And revenue and profit unveiled at Yahoo! had a healthy glow, too. Innovation has been key at all three, says Standard & Poor's Internet equity analyst Scott Kessler: "They have amazing virtual research labs - those websites." And increasingly, users like what they find. Nielsen//NetRatings clocked growth in second-quarter searches using Google and Yahoo! at 6% and 9% respectively. And with the growth in broadband connections boosting the time Internet users spend online, advertisers get more chances to entice them. Global Internet ad revenues are set to soar by almost 20% this year...
...keep records on large numbers of people. The 1828 law simply froze the process, dictating that new generations would keep the patronymic of the head of the family at that time. The unfortunate result was that two thirds of Danes still carry a limited selection of names such as Nielsen, Jensen and Hansen. (Both the former and current prime ministers are called Rasmussen, and foreigners often wonder whether they are related. They aren't; they're just Danes...
...belt tightening has come as no surprise to industry watchers. Capital Cities, a successful owner of magazines, newspapers and broadcasting stations, is known for running lean, and extremely profitable, operations. ABC, meanwhile, has been floundering financially. As NBC last week celebrated its first victory ever in Nielsen's cumulative annual prime-time ratings, ABC chalked up a last-place place finish for the second year in a row. Capital Cities/ABC executives told stockholders three weeks ago that the network may post a net loss this year for the first time since 1971. Nor is the situation likely to improve quickly...
...titles' revenue, "It's definitely the case that free newspapers are generating significant ad revenues, some of which are unique to them," says Jim Chisholm, strategy adviser to the wan. Though newspapers' share of the global ad spend is sliding, total ad revenues for newspapers are growing. According to Nielsen Media Research, advertising spending in Britain's Metro climbed 9.2% in 2004, compared to 3.9% across the U.K.'s daily newspaper market. So what's the attraction? With the ubiquity of freesheets in or around transport links, firms are able to combine ads in a commuter's free paper with...