How news channels able to know that people are watching their channels? Because sometimes many news channels shows that their channel has been watched by 10 million people. etc. etc. But How?
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Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. In a secondary meaning, it may refer to streaming television over the internet. In most cases live programming is not being recorded as it is shown on TV, but rather was not rehearsed or edited and is being shown only as it was recorded prior to being aired. Shows broadcast live include newscasts, morning shows, awards shows, sports programs, reality programs and, occasionally, episodes of scripted television series.
Live television was more common until the late 1950s, when videotape technology was invented. Because of the prohibitive cost, adoption was slow, and some television shows remained live until the 1970s, such as soap operas. To prevent unforeseen issues, live television programs may be delayed, which allows censors to edit the program. Some programs may be broadcast live in certain time zones and delayed in others.
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Market research agencies like Nielsen and others use a number of techniques combined to measure viewership:
Survey calls: they cold call or arrange calls with a wide range of members of the public.
Panel diaries: people are selected and they are asked to log everything they watch.
Panel Monitoring: people agree to have a device attached to every tv in their home which tracks their viewing.
Market research: some online surveys and paper surveys ask you what channels/programmes you watch.
Pay TV statistics: some pay TV companies can tell what show you are watching, they can then anonymise that data and just sell it with demographic data.
They don't know how many people watch a show, they usually don't even know who watched a show. But by understanding who watches a show they can infer how many people probably watched the show over the population. It is good enough for advertising budgets and strategic use but everyone in the business accepts it is the best we can get. Although different regions can use various methods, the traditional way to monitor television viewing habits has been a rating system. In many countries, including the US, the Nielsen Company uses in-house devices that track the viewing habits of thousands of people. These numbers represent what average people of a certain age and gender watch, which then indicates the number of viewers who probably watch a particular show. Networks use this information to gauge how popular certain shows are, which determines how much they charge companies to advertise during those programs.
I hope this answers your questions about how to find out how many people would watch your TV station, and how you would get your ratings. The system is a bit antiquated, but, I guess it works?