Television ratings

Television ratings

• Nielsen to buy Arbitron for about $1.26B

  Nielsen, the dominant source of TV ratings, on Tuesday said it had agreed to buy Arbitron for about $1.26 billion to expand into radio measurement. 

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  Stocks gain on optimism that a budget deal is near

  Stocks climbed on Wall Street Tuesday, pushing the Standard and Poor's 500 to its highest level in two months, on optimism that lawmakers are closing ... 

• Nielsen's top programs for Dec. 10-16

  Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 10-16. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership. 1. NFL Football: San Francisco ... 

• CBS dominates week in TV ratings

  CBS had little competition for dominance last week in the television ratings. The network had 17 of the 25 most-watched programs on the air last week, ... 

• Nielsen and Twitter team to measure TV tweets

  Twitter and the TV ratings firm Nielsen are joining forces to create a way to measure TV-related conversation on the micro-blogging site. 

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  Hockey fans fed up with ongoing NHL labor strife

  Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout. Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the ... 

• 'The Young and the Restless' hits milestone

  When "The Young and the Restless" climbed to the top of the daytime drama ratings, there were 13 soap operas on the air. Now there are four. The CBS ... 

• Study shows growth in second screen users

  Television viewers were once called couch potatoes. Many are becoming more active while watching now, judging by the findings in a new report that ... 

• Football leads NBC to ratings win

  Two football games that showed the widely divergent paths of New York's pro football teams boosted NBC to its first ratings win of the new season.