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Twice in the last decade Nielsen has paper mailed me wanting to collect TV viewing information over a future week. They even included a $5 bill in the mailing
by rogerbinns 8y ago
Twice in the last decade Nielsen has paper mailed me wanting to collect TV viewing information over a future week. They even included a $5 bill in the mailing with promise of more at the end. I was rather excited since finally Futurama and Stargate could have some support.
But when it became time to fill out the logbook I couldn't actually do it. I finally figured out they couldn't care less what TV I watched, and were actually trying to work out what ads I had watched that had aired at most in the previous 24 hours. Kinda difficult information to provide when using DVDs, Netflix, and having cut the cord many years before. There was nowhere to even say that you watched stuff on Netflix. You could only supply channel names and times!
(They also never bothered to check their help email worked, which it didn't. They apologised several weeks later.)
- tacon 8y agoSometime in early 2000, I decided I was watching too much television, so I just stopped, completely. I was actively avoiding watching any television. I was a few months into that when I got my one and only invitation to be a Nielsen person. I told them in advance that I gave up watching television a few months before, and I didn't plan on watching anything in the near future. They said sure, that was fine. So I got a log book and, of course, at the end of each month or whatever, I wrote 0,0,0... everywhere. After six months, I was not renewed as a Nielsen person. :-) I did watch election night 2000 and the whole hanging chad period, and eventually I was watching some again.