Monday, May 02, 2016

Nielsen family

Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be Nielsen family.  If you're of 'a certain age' you'll remember how prestigious it was to be a family that had your TV viewing counted.  Now in my early 50s I still got excited when this arrived in the mail:

I haven't opened it yet to see what is involved but I will.  

I can only hope that an actual person is looking at the shows we watch, rather than a computer analyzing our TV viewing habits.  "The Real O'Neals", "HSN", "Blackish", "evine Live", "Game of Thrones", "The Rachel Maddow Show", "Girls", "QVC", "Beachfront Bargain Hunt", "Hardball", "Flip or Flop", "The Middle", "Bill Mahr" - what does this crazy combination of programs say about us???

Perhaps that there are 2 different people watching 2 different TVs at least some of the time.

2 comments:

anne marie in philly said...

interesting. I did one of those back in the 80s I think. if they sent me one today, it would be blank since I don't watch tv.

Fearsome Beard said...

In the early 1990s we were a monitored household for two years. They came in and put the boxes on our tvs and captured all of our activity during that time. It was kind of fun actually.