How TV Ratings Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder why some great shows go off the air after a season or less? Blame it on the Nielsen company, which has for more than 60 years been the almost exclusive decider of what goes and what stays on TV.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from House stuffworks.com.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.7	There's Charles W. Chuckars Bryant and there's Jerry W. J. Rowland.
0:50.7	Actually Jerry's been canceled.
0:52.2	Oh okay.
0:53.2	Do the low ratings.
0:54.2	You know what's funny is Jerry has been portrayed on television in a TV show that was canceled
1:00.0	to the poor ratings.
1:01.0	Poor ratings.
1:02.0	That was our show.
1:03.0	That was our show.
1:04.0	We had a television show once.
1:05.0	It was called Stuffy Should Know.
1:06.9	It was a slightly fictionalized version of our work life.
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