Lifestyle > Sports & Entertainment

Superbowl XLV sets new American viewing record

(1/3) > >>

.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:
An estimated 111,000,000 viewers. Crazy.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/news/story?id=6098480


What I've never understood is....when the Nielsen ratings show that 111 million people watched the superbowl, how are they able to account for the fact that most people dont watch it alone. There are Superbowl partiest everywhere. Sometimes 10....15...20...30 people, etc all watching together.

Javier:
They probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. 

.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:

--- Quote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PM ---They probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. 

--- End quote ---

how?

Shallow:

--- Quote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on February 07, 2011, 04:21:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PM ---They probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. 

--- End quote ---

how?

--- End quote ---

It's all based on the same thing polls are based on. Only so many people have Nielsen boxes and they each represents demographics in each area. In the end it's just a guess based on some math and stats. No one can say for sure what the real number was. But I think we can all agree that it would have been over 500 million in the US alone if Brady was playing it this year. 200 million people would have legally immigrated just to tune into him on US soil.

.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:

--- Quote from: Shallow on February 07, 2011, 05:12:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on February 07, 2011, 04:21:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javier on February 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PM ---They probably figure out the average amount of people that watch the game per TV Set. 

--- End quote ---

how?

--- End quote ---

It's all based on the same thing polls are based on. Only so many people have Nielsen boxes and they each represents demographics in each area. In the end it's just a guess based on some math and stats. No one can say for sure what the real number was. But I think we can all agree that it would have been over 500 million in the US alone if Brady was playing it this year. 200 million people would have legally immigrated just to tune into him on US soil.

--- End quote ---

I know how only so many people have Nielsen boxes. What Im saying is, how are they able to determine how many people are watching per house? Some people watch by themselves...while others have 20 people over.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page