The Point Media Consultants
MARK PEDOWITZ IS LEAVING ABC-DISNEY TV AFTER 19 YEARS WITH THE COMPANY
Tuesday February 9, 2010
 

By The Numbers
TOP 10 TV SHOWS FROM 1952-53 SEASON
I Love Lucy
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Dragnet
Texaco Star Theater
The Buick Circus Hour
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Gangbusters
You Bet Your Life
Fireside Theatre

Around Town
Pam Black has joined Ziffren Brittenham. She was vp business affairs on the network television side at NBC Universal.

John Schulman has been named partner, chairman of its entertainment department and member of its governing board at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.

Ann Calfas has been promoted to Senior Vice President & Chief Employment Counsel, Warner Bros. Entertainment. She was previously Senior Vice President, Employment Litigation, Fox Entertainment Group

Outtakes
Nielsen TV Ratings: DEFINITIONS: Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports. Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.) Time Shifted Viewing: Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

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