Ratings show the average number of people who tuned into a programme at any given time and are expressed in thousands or as a percentage of the total potential audience of the demographic selected. It is also known as a TARP (Target Audience Rating Point).
A device called a PeopleMeter sits on top of every television set within a house on the panel. It electronically records what programme is being watched at any given time.
As each household member enters the room to watch TV, they press a button on the PeopleMeter handset, recording who is watching and what they are watching.
The viewing information is automatically fed through the phone lines each day to a central computer at AGB Nielsen Media Research, which runs the PeopleMeter system.
The ratings service is independently audited every month. Since January 2012 technology has been introduced to allow for time-shifted viewing (programmes that you record and watch later). As well, technology now covers digital as well as analogue television sets.
I cannot find any information about payment to panel members, but would be pleased to hear.
Mondayising of Anzac Day
At the risk of preaching to the converted, I'm repeating an item that ran earlier this year.
The bill Mondayising Anzac Day and Waitangi Day if they fall on a Saturday or Sunday - the Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and Anzac Day) Amendment Act 2013 - passed into law on January 1, 2014.
This means next Monday, April 27, will be a public holiday, as will Monday, February 8 next year, for Waitangi Day. Both holidays will still be observed on the actual dates (February 6 and April 25). If Waitangi Day or Anzac Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, for employees who would not otherwise work that Saturday or Sunday, the public holiday must be treated as falling on the following Monday. For employees who would otherwise work on that Saturday or Sunday, the holiday must be treated as falling on that day.
