How TV Ratings Actually Worked: The Myth of the Nielsen Family

For decades, the standard vocabulary of the average television viewer contained a word that sounded like it belonged to a suburban cult: the “Nielsen family”. If a favorite prime-time drama was suddenly canceled, fans blamed the Nielsen families. If a brainless sitcom stayed on the air for a decade, it was because those secret, chosen […] The post How TV Ratings Actually Worked: The Myth of the…