SYSK Selects: How TV Ratings Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 45 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.
0:33.2	Hey everybody, happy Saturday.
0:34.8	It's Chuck here with another Stuff You Should Know Select.
0:37.8	This week everyone I picked out an episode about TV ratings because I don't know.
0:42.2	I love TV and it's interesting.
0:44.1	This from September 2014 and I hope you enjoyed.
0:50.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:59.9	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:01.3	I'm Josh Clark.
1:02.3	There's Charles W. Chuckers Bryant and there's Jerry W. J. Rowland.
1:09.4	Actually Jerry's been canceled.
1:10.8	Oh okay.
1:11.6	Do the low ratings.
1:12.8	You know what's funny is Jerry has been portrayed on television.
1:17.6	In a TV show that was canceled, do the poor ratings.
1:19.6	That was our show.
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