Posted on 03/14/2017 7:00:31 PM PDT by EdnaMode
EXCLUSIVE: After last night’s The Bachelor finale, we know who Nick Viall’s new love is, but we don’t know how well the Season 21 ender of the ABC reality romance show did in the ratings. And neither do ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, the CW — or Nielsen.
An early Sunday morning power outage at the data company’s Oldsmar, FL facility continues to kneecap reporting of viewership and adults 18-49 demographic numbers for the Big 4 and the CW for a third day in a row. The lack of those fast affiliates and more is frustrating the nets. Right now, they have with no indication how big shows like Monday’s The Bachelor and NBC’s The Voice, Sunday’s NCIS: LA and the March 11 Saturday Night Live did, nor how cable blockbusters like The Walking Dead fared.
“Nielsen continues to work with the local electric company and our technology teams to resolve issues caused by the Saturday March 11th power outage,” the company said in an email sent out to network clients this morning. “At this time we do not have any additional details to share regarding application availability or data delivery schedules for the services impacted.”
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
There’s always whining from network execs about the focus on overnight ratings.
Now, the lack of them leads to more whining!
https://twitter.com/TVGrimReaper/status/841681180315459585
...No ratings for 3 days now,...
And somehow the earth continues to rotate.
The numbers must be really bad for the legacy over-the-air providers. Since most people get their TV through a box these days, it isn’t that hard for folks to be able to work with real numbers these days. Nielsen is probably a dying technology, anyway.
Not only that, Nielsen measures ratings + 3 and ratings + 10. I'll let you figure out what that means.
I worked as a systems engineer for Nielsen for about 9 years, ending in 2008. I started with the AC Nielsen company which, during my employment was, re-joined with Nielsen Media Research, forming the new company named The Nielsen Company.
After the companies got back together, my boss was based in Oldsmar, and I spent some time there, but was based elsewhere.
With that background, it is my opinion that this story is spin.
The Oldsmar team was very proud of the redundant power and back-up generators. We specifically discussed it because I was questioning the decision to have the data center sitting in an area prone to hurricanes and flooding. They assured me that all of the bases were covered, and they could withstand anything that was thrown at them. I continued to question this, as even being able to keep the data center supplied with power would not guarantee that you would be able to maintain network connectivity to the outside world during an event..
Assuming that they are still hosting these systems in the Oldsmar data center, I can’t see how they would lose redundant power company feeds as well as their generator capability, which were redundant as well. I suspect there is something else amiss and the power story is cover.
As an aside, I left there due to my entire department (infrastructure) being outsourced to Tata Consultancy. I jumped ship immediately rather than train my replacement.
don't blame you one bit. Short of a major natural disaster or act of war/terror, highly suspect power at a DC would be offline for 3 days. We should be hearing from other regional compute customers and/or co-lo customers at Oldsmar.
I’m not familiar with the field, but my first thought was of a Jerry Seinfeld episode when he says, “What a shame.” ;)
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