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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 12:14 PM
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Does any work for or know anyone who works for a cable company?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm curious about whether cable companies can tell how many people are watching any given channel at any given time.

I'm not talking about individual viewers, although conceivably they could monitor them with a few tweaks :scared: I'm talking about being able to figure out that 100,000 of their local subscribers are watching Channel 2 and 50,000 are watching Channel 3 and nobody's watching the county soil conservation district meeting on the public access channel, while two people are watching each of the ten shopping channels.

Do they keep figures like that?
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:36 PM
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1. I would be surprised if they *didn't* monitor that sort of thing
Although I don't work for any cable company, nor do I know anyone who does.

It just makes sense that they'd do it, though. (why? because they can)
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 12:44 PM
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2. I'm sure they do, it's all about marketing...
and Nielsen ratings.
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