The Telecommunications Act of 1996 contained a "Parental Choice in Television Programming" provision designed to permit parents greater control over the content seen on their home televisions. This provision passed in response to the...

Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. Nielsen Ratings are offered in over forty countries. The system has been updated and modified...

NIELSEN, RATING A daft match made in heaven: Author and star of Betty's Summer Vacation reunite in lunacy The last time Kristine Nielsen appeared in a play by Chris Durang, her character was named after an instrument that measures the power of...

Following are the top 20 network primetime shows last week, ranked according to the percentage of the nation's 90.4 million TV households that watched, as measured by the A.C. Nielsen Co. A544434273123.8Roseanne35ABC221.7The Cosby Show39NBC320.8Cheers33NBC420.7A Different World35NBC519.860 Minutes38CBS619.5The Golden Girls35NBC719.2Hunter36NBC19.2The Wonder Years30ABC919.0Empty Nest34NBC19.0Witness31CBS1118.5Murder, She Wrote30CBS1218.3Dear...

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 11-17. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.1. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 4.08 million homes, 6.32 million viewers.2. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9...

Sometimes a radical change to the formula still delivers the same result. That's what happened Tuesday when Nielsen Media Research released highly anticipated commercial ratings for the first week of the fall prime-time TV season.The ratings used a new metric called "C3," which measures how...