Dvr

If you’re reading this before 10 p.m. EST, it’s not too late to avoid catastrophe!

The Nielsen Company has been the only arbiter of TV ratings for decades now (and an absurdly inaccurate one at that), and now the company is expanding to account for streaming (Netflix, Amazon) ratings too, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [...]

"Stuff happens in the tag," says a 30 Rock producer. 

Deal with this, American Idol: when you take into account "time-shifters" (sadly not a time travel term, just a jargony word for people who watch shows after they're broadcast), Modern Family is the highest-rated show on TV among 18-49 year [...]

Totally Obvious News of the day: ratings for shows are really, really different when you factor in DVR. Networks are finally starting to count the number of people who watch a show on DVR in the seven days after it airs, in addition to the [...]

It's a good thing TV ratings aren't the stock market, because we would all be screwed. Like, more than we are now. This series of comparisons between today's hits and yesteryear's flops is pretty shocking. Did you know that the same number of [...]

I have no clue when my favorite television shows are on. Despite loyally following five or six different half-hour comedies over the past season, I have never actually turned on a television to do so. In fact, I don’t even own a TV — like [...]

Set-top boxes cost Americans $3 billion per year.

He has 100,000 more viewers in the demo than Jay.

Your schadenfreude of the day: "It turns out that the search tools on some DVRs cannot find the new show, $#*! My Dad Says, because the symbols cannot be read."

The era of easy, ad-free online viewing may be ending

Obviously, the networks are thrilled!