Nielsen, TV Networks Battle Over Ratings — And Few May Win

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWho’s really going to be in charge?NBCUniversal and a group leading the nation’s big TV companies are both jockeying to find ways to create a media-measurement rival to Nielsen, but an organization that represents some of Madison Avenue’s largest advertisers is warning the media entities to proceed with caution.“If NBC wants to do something for NBC, they are well within their rights.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA bevy of owners of local TV stations have already moved to stop selling ads based on traditional TV ratings.

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe TV networks aren’t the only ones who think their audiences need to be counted differently.Big media-buying agencies and even a few advertisers are likely to help as the TV industry battles with Nielsen and continues to push for alternate systems of counting video viewers, whether they watch via traditional linear TV or a new streaming-video hub.“We needed better measurement of consumers, and for whatever reason, they didn’t deliver,” says Kelly Metz, managing

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen’s decades-old track record of measuring the TV business was dealt a serious blow Wednesday after an industry organization decided to suspend its backing of the company’s national ratings service and also cancel an agreed-upon hiatus for its support of Nielsen’s local TV efforts as well.The suspension is the latest salvo in a months-long joust between TV networks and the company that has long tabulated its viewership, and is the latest sign of the