News ratings for the week beginning Sept. 29 were affected by a software error that created miscalculations of television viewership dating back to last March, so the previously announced victory of ABC's World News Tonight last week over NBC's Nightly News was incorrect.
Nielsen To ABC News: Never Mind
NEW YORK (AP) — The Nielsen company says ABC’s evening newscast did not break a 263-week winning streak by its rivals at NBC, which had been reported last week.
News ratings for the week beginning Sept. 29 were affected by a software error that created miscalculations of television viewership dating back to last March. Industry officials said the error meant ABC’s viewership was consistently over-estimated.
Nielsen had said last week that ABC’s “World News Tonight” had averaged 8.42 million viewers for the affected week to 8.25 million for NBC’s “Nightly News.” NBC hadn’t lost a week since 2009.
But in its review, Nielsen found that NBC actually won the week by 170,000 viewers.
Comments (3)
Keith ONeal says:
October 14, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Should be even more incentive for Networks and Stations to ditch Nielsen for Rentrax!
Sean Smith says:
October 14, 2014 at 9:19 pm
So what does this mean for the great David Muir experiment?
Geoffrey Miller says:
October 14, 2014 at 9:59 pm
Good bye Nielsen! You were relevant in the 20th century.