Dear Collective Brain,
I have an instructor who is looking for updated content on how Nielsen
ratings work, and how television shows are produced.
She has been using a PBS Nova program for 1982 enttitled "Can You
Believe TV Ratings?", but it's so dated that her students are losing
interest.
I'm striking out as far as finding something more recent that gives an
in-depth examination of Nielsen ratings, which doesn't necessarily
surprise me -- if I'm overlooking something, I would love to hear about
it! What does surprise me are my difficulties in finding something
up-to-date that goes over how television shows are produced. I'm not
seeing anything prior to 2000 that would fit the bill, and even that
would be too old.
What I'm finding so far are lots of updated DVDs that deal with
*specific* matters related to various aspects of television (or film)
production, such as casting, editing, voice-overs, etc. Turning up one
that is more or a comprehensive overview is turning out to be more
challenging than I'd thought. I thought there might be an 'extra'
feature on a dvd television season that might be helpful, but those are
harder to search for given their lack of indexing, and I'm also running
into the same issue of not seeing one that is more comprehensive. (Or,
they cover a show like Game of Thrones that is not exactly
representative.) So, if you have a resource to recommend in either of
these areas that has preferably been produced in within the last five
years, I would be grateful to hear about it.
Thanks in advance,
--
Meghann Matwichuk, M.S.
Associate Librarian
Film and Video Collection
Morris Library, University of Delaware
181 S. College Ave.
Newark, DE 19717
(302) 831-1475
http://www.lib.udel.edu/filmandvideo
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