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Samurai CDZ
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Newvember seems to be working out well, doesn't it.
I never understood how they get the ratings. Can someone please explain how it works? |
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ChichiriMuyo
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http://www.nielsenmedia.com/
They have an faq that may be able to clear things up more than I could by trying to explain it, but from the little bits I understand they basically put a special box in the houses of selceted families hooked to every tv so they can track who watches what. Though only a fraction of a percent of people are tracked by this method they use various statistical methods to estimate how much of the total population is watching a given show. So if by any chance you happen to become one of these "neilsen families" for the love of god watch every anime every chance you get *grins* |
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Mohawk52
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Neilson select households at randon and ask if they can hook up one of their survey boxes to one's TV. This box records what channel at what time and feeds this info down the household's telephone at intervials at night when not many people are using their phones. How this can tell them what age the person is at the time of viewing is a mystery to me. I think it's probably speculation. "Poké-mon, Must be someone aged 6 to 11-years-old. who else would watch it?" said the Neilson analyser. Meanwhile back at the engine shed.......
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Samurai CDZ
Posts: 776 Location: Manhattan, KS |
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Sounds like it huh?. 
Thanks for the link. Semi off-topic:
I just hope they don't use the same random system as the courts... 
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M_Lileks
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A household using Neilson (and similiar test-marketing systems)gives information as to describe the age and gender of the person(s) viewing specific programs. If folks just randomly guessed it would destroy the majority of value of the system, as accurate age/marketing demographics are the key to advertising impact/revenues. |
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ZODDGUTS
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I can't believe how many people watched that horrible show called DBGT.
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Exinex
 Posts: 27 Location: Mankato, MN |
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Months ago, my house was chosen. I of course watched all three hours of adult swim each night. The next week or two, all those articles started being released about how Adult Swim is dominating the 18-35 crowd. (I'm 19) Found it kind of interesting.
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Foix
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Well, most of those numbers were for children and preteen males, remember; I don't see anything wrong with kids enjoying series like that. The popularity amongst the older age groups is pretty mind-boggling, however. |
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Emerje
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The SD Gundam numbers are probably more impressive since the series has been in repeats for a few weeks and still bringing in high numbers.
Emerje |
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Shorty22
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My family did some rating thing over a year ago. There wasn't a box, we just had to fill out a form for the week on what we were watching. Maybe it was for something else, I don't remember.
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Samurai CDZ
Posts: 776 Location: Manhattan, KS |
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Same thing.
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trigunner
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Well i always stand up for Cartoon Network. I mean it was pretty gutsy to put that volume of 'adult' anime on what before was primarily a children station.
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BlazeEagle
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Excellent news. Kids, boys espcially, love those type of shows.
I don't see the problem with DBGT. It's not bad, just more the of the same with some Star Trekish space travel. I'm a faithful viewer of DB and was of DBZ but I do not like them enough to rewatch them. Everythings been done in DB and DBZ, so it's probably hard to squeeze more original content out of the franchise. People dislike GT, yet wasn't Z created for the same reasons as GT?, to extend Goku's adventures? |
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Nagisa
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 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Z was part of Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga (in Japan, if memory serves, the entire thing through Majin Buu was just called Dragon Ball). But when the anime was made, they decided to call the series Dragon Ball Z at a specific point in the series to denote the change in the series from an advanture-based anime to a fighting one. The point is, this was all part of Toriyama's original DB saga. GT, on the other hand, had nothing to do with Toriyama, and was merely tacked on by Toei to milk a few more miles of yen out of the franchise. Not being part of Toriyama's concept, and merely the studio's "MAKE MORE MONEY! OMG!" creation, it was of far, far lower quality than the rest of the DB animation out there. |
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Izlude
Posts: 323 Location: Wherever The Wind Takes Me |
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[quote="Nagisa"]
Ya wanna know whats really amusing about GT? It was a total flop in Japan and Toei probably lost alotta money from it, yet here in the US its hauling in ratings like mad. Ya know what they say, another mans trash is another mans treasure lol. |
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