Nielsen Ratings

A few weeks ago, we were notified by mail that we would be participating in the Nielsen survey. They called us later to see if we would do it. Then we received the stuff in the mail.

Since I have always wondered how they compile their ratings, it is quite interesting to see it firsthand.

Because we have 3 TVs, they sent us 3 booklets. Since Thursday, we have kept one booklet by each TV, and are recording everything we watch for one week. Zac watches the Discovery channel almost nonstop, Tara watches dramas like House and NCIS, I watch BYU or HGTV, and Wayne watches old movies starring Fred Astaire.



I am pretty sad that we are not able to help the ratings of some of our favorite shows (Psych, Burn Notice) because they are not playing right now.

And Wayne has not been watching Jay Leno because there always seems to be something else on at that time (like our favorite show Project Runway).

I think the networks are going to be sadly disappointed in our household viewing habits. Our booklets are not going to help them receive advertising money, because we keep writing down that we record shows on the DVR and then watch them later, zipping through the commercials.

Also, we almost never watch the regular networks (CBS, NBC, ABC). Everything we watch is only on satellite or cable.