Miami Television Station Files Suit Against Nielsen Ratings

WSVN: The suit came after a change in the way Nielsen gathered its ratings in South Florida. For decades they paid viewers to write down what they watched. In October, they switched to people meters, an electronic measuring system attached to TVs. The next day, WSVN’s ratings dramatically dropped morning, noon and night.



Ed Ansin: “Suddenly, as of Oct. 1 of last year, about 50 percent of the young audience, the young adult audience disappeared, vanished.”