Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Source: Nielsen Media Research
This week, my parents and sister are living my dream. This week, we (minus me) are a Nielsen family...
Whatever they watch on television, they record in a little diary and send it off to the Nielsen people. The Nielsen people take my family's input, along with the input of other representative families around the country, and use it to help them compute the Nielsen TV ratings for the week...
...play God. (Not the part about side deals, of course, although I'm sure God could make a bundle of cash if he wanted to.) It's cool to think that the balance of the television universe is commanded by a few people with remote controls and a Nielsen diary. Especially if you are one of those people. Jonathan Edwards would certainly like this: "Television Stars in the Hands of an Angry Will Bohlen...
Cafeteria worker Karen Nielsen had rushed to help the bleeding students when she spotted the shooters. As she heard the shots blowing through the room, she shoved the kids into a bathroom. She pulled a phone along with her to call the police. But then she worried, "They'll see the cord. And then we'll be trapped...