"Baseball can control whether there are baseball games to watch in 2027. If owners and players can't figure that out, they won't have to worry about the NFL stealing their audience."
"Cumulus claims Nielsen forces media companies to buy expensive local audience data they may not need in order to gain access to the national ratings that networks like its subsidiary Westwood One rely on"
I’m sure others can come up with interesting ideas, but the real question is: “What do we want the radio/audio audience measurement system to look like in 2030? In 2035?”
The FOX broadcast featuring Ohio State playing Texas drew more than 16 million viewers, while three other broadcasts on ABC eclipsed more than 10 million viewers.
When your career prospects are contingent on whether someone wears a watch on a given day or a near-illiterate draws a line in a paper diary, that’s an unusual way to make a living.
Until Nielsen discovers that “it ain’t no fun staring straight down a forty-four” (figuratively, not literally), I expect we’ll be seeing Nielsen back at The Jug again, looking for more ways to cut costs.
"Baseball can control whether there are baseball games to watch in 2027. If owners and players can't figure that out, they won't have to worry about the NFL stealing their audience."
“Once you can rock the mic in a state where you can hardly pronounce any of the towns, but you still connect with the people, you feel like you can make it anywhere, especially where you’re from."