Written off as lowbrow by some critics, the show shot to the top of the Nielsen ratings shortly after its premiere and stayed there for several seasons.

Selig's decision to extend the traditional post-season schedule into November in an attempt to increase Nielsen ratings was met with widespread disdain, both inside and outside the baseball community.

That game was one of the most watched television events in history according to the Nielsen ratings system ; the game had a rating of 48. 3, ranking it seventh in all-time television history.

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

The Nielsen ratings system is explicitly designed for the optimum measurement of audience viewership by dayparts with prime time being of most interest.

Star Treks Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network canceled it after three seasons and 79 episodes.

This three-part arc, which presaged the inevitable Romulan-Earth War of 2156, received the lowest Nielsen ratings of the entire series, leading UPN to cancel it on February 2, 2005.

The animated series was, according to the Nielsen ratings, not popular enough with young children.

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Although it was considered a major network by the Nielsen ratings, UPN was not available in all areas of the United States.

In 1999-2000 Millionaire was the first prime-time game show since " The $ 64, 000 Question " to finish first in the US season-ending Nielsen ratings.

The 1989 season also featured a midseason replacement series, The Simpsons ; ranked at a three-way tie for 29th place in the Nielsen ratings, it became the first Fox series to break the Top 30.

Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80 % share of the recorded viewing audience.

Her performance is generally credited as one factor in the fledgling show's subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings to a hit rivaling Dallas.

Sesame Street, insulated from the Nielsen ratings wars, holds the record at over 40 years, and still airs.

However, with daytime viewers declining in general, Press Your Lucks numbers began to slip in Summer 1985, when Sale of the Century gained the upper hand in the Nielsen ratings.

Combined with ratings for its regular weekly series, Roots propelled ABC to a first-place finish in the national Nielsen ratings for the 1976 – 1977 season — this was a first in the then thirty-year history of the network.

By the time of the World Bowl, the games were struggling to achieve Nielsen ratings above 2. 0, and TVS found it nearly impossible to sell advertising.

Though Disney Channel has increased its viewership to rival that of Nickelodeon, Disney Channel has yet to officially unseat Nickelodeon in the Nielsen ratings as the highest-rated basic cable channel among total viewers ( ages 2 +) and all kid demos in its annual ratings.

In the May 2010 Nielsen ratings, Disney Channel ranked No. 1 for the 63rd consecutive month in the Kids 6 – 11 demographic and for the 62nd straight month among Tweens 9 – 14.

According to Nielsen Media Research, the month of February 2011 had finished as Disney Channel ’ s most-watched February sweeps period in Total Day ratings in the network's history ever, earning an average of 1. 7 million viewers among Total Viewers, along with 590, 000 viewers with a 2. 1 rating share among Kids 6 – 11 and 459, 000 viewers with a 1. 9 rating share among Tweens 6 – 9 ; 9 – 15 ; among the first two demos, the channel posted its 14th consecutive month of year-to-year gains in both demos.

The show became a big hit with the critics and in the Nielsen ratings.

The series reached # 1 in the Nielsen ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for eight.

Messter replied with a series of longer films starring Henny Porten, but although these did well in the German-speaking world, they were not particularly successful internationally, unlike the Asta Nielsen films.

In the final years of his life, Nielsen appeared in numerous spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases.

In a 1994 Boston Globe article, Nielsen explained, " I did learn very early that when I would mention my uncle, people would look at me as if I were the biggest liar in the world.

Nielsen briefly appeared on the World Wrestling Federation program in the summer of 1994 on WWF Monday Night Raw ; capitalizing on his Frank Drebin character, Nielsen ( and George Kennedy ) were hired as " super-sleuths " to unravel the mystery of The Undertaker who had disappeared at January's Royal Rumble event.

Both films attempted the absurdist comedy Nielsen is recognized for, but were poorly received.

Several critics were disappointed that Nielsen's role in Surf Ninjas was only " an extended cameo " and film critic Chris Hicks recommended that viewers "... avoid any comedy that features Leslie Nielsen outside of the Naked Gun series.

By 1992, Nielsen Media Research estimated that a third of The Disney Channel's subscriber base were adults without children in the home ; and by 1995, its subscriber base expanded to 15 million cable homes, eight million of which received the channel through a premium subscription.

While it was some time before his works were fully appreciated, even in his home country, Nielsen has now firmly entered the international repertoire.

It is not known how much Carl Nielsen composed during his time in the military, but from his autobiography, it can be deduced that he wrote some trios and quartets for brass instruments, and that he had difficulty in coming to terms with the fact that brass instruments were tuned in different keys.

Nielsen is perhaps most closely associated with his six symphones, which were written between 1892, when he was an aspiring young composer, and 1925, when he was already beginning to suffer from poor health.

Nielsen wrote a considerable number of choral works but most of them were composed for special occasions and were seldom repeated.

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

Other places were saved because of people such as the visionary Neil Nielsen, who became the New South Wales Minister for Lands and a strong advocate of a public reserve around Sydney Harbour.

The first town board members were Frank Tripe, A. E. Pettygrove, Nic Nielsen, George Zulauf, and J. K. Richmond.

Carl Nielsen ( 1865 – 1931 ) and Paul Hindemith ( 1895 – 1963 ) were also inconsistent in their approaches.

Among their recording projects were the complete symphonies of Nielsen and Sibelius, choral works of Brahms, and orchestral works of Richard Strauss and Hindemith.

In March 2004, Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite were split up in the Nielsen primetime and total day ratings, due to the different programming, advertisers and target audiences between the two services ; this caused controversy by cable executives believing this manipulated the ratings, given that Nick at Nite's broadcast day takes up only a fraction of Nickelodeon's programming schedule.

Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen were real-life husband and wife at the time of the film's production.

The network could also be seen in smaller markets on cable-only stations, many of these through The WB 100 + Station Group – available to TV markets below the number 100 in viewership as determined by Nielsen in a packaged format, with a master schedule ; the addition of local advertisements and news were at the discretion of the local distributor, often a local television station or cable television provider.

Nielsen and Carlos were on hand to receive the award, which was presented to them by Steve Albini.