The legal battle between Nielsen and Cumulus Media has escalated, with the ratings giant filing a countersuit that accuses Cumulus of handing over ratings data to one of its main competitors. In a ...

TV networks and sports leagues rely heavily on Nielsen to to tell them how many people at home watch football games, tennis matches and auto races. Counting viewers in bars, hotels and offices? That ...

Nielsen wants to make it easier for media buyers and sellers to tell when multiple viewers are watching something together. The measurement firm announced on Tuesday that it is piloting a new ...

Nielsen is launching a new pilot program designed to more accurately count co-viewing and better reflect the total viewership for TV programming, particularly live events. The pilot will launched with ...

NEW YORK—Nielsen will launch a pilot program leveraging a new methodology enhancement to account more accurately for co-viewing, beginning Feb. 8 with Super Bowl LX on NBC. The program, which will ...

Flavor Flav is looking back on his relationship with Brigitte Nielsen. The unusual couple met in 2004 as participants on VH1’s reality show, Surreal Life 3. “She was always naked on TV. And her ...

Three days after Indiana completed its masterpiece, college football delivered another stunner: The Hoosiers’ victory over Miami in the College Football Playoff championship attracted 30.1 million ...

Seth MacFarlane is Nielsen‘s inaugural “Streaming Icon of the Year.” The TV ratings measurement company released the results of the 2025 ARTEY Awards, its annual recognition of the most-watched ...

Does Nielsen have the power to bring a halt to the forces that keep shrinking the audience for cable TV? In the long term, no. But a new twist in the company’s estimations of the total number of ...

On Dec. 28, 2025, the French actress Brigitte Bardot, who was considered one of the most quintessential sex symbols in film throughout her career, died at 91. Following her death, posts began ...

French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot attends a debate against seal-hunting in the European Council in Strasburg, eastern France, on January 23, 1978. AFP via Getty Images Just ...

We now have more understanding of a federal judge’s decision to grant Cumulus Media a preliminary injunction against The Nielsen Company in its closely watched antitrust dispute that could prove a ...