My household has been selcted...
 

..to take part in audience viewing figures research!

we are getting a little box hooked up to our tv and then every month we get paid as an incentive, its not alot, £4 a mmonth each plus £18 a quarter for the house.

pretty cool huh?

That is pretty cool. Do you think you'll find yourself changing what you watch since your viewing will be monitored or are there no guilty pleasures on your tv schedule :devil: I know mine is full of them

haha i pretty much only watch cookery shows, family guy and house. lol

Do you have Fringe in the UK? If so, check it out - if you like House, you'll probably like that show :)

not heard of it so probably not?

we dont even get biggest loser!

I did this once for Nielsen ratings before the advent of the personal computer, etc. We had to fill out a form on every show we watched for a month or so. It was tedious and we didn't get any compensation at all. I'm glad you get a little something.

I wonder how we'd fare with that. It is not uncommon for us to record 2 events while watching something previously recorded.

Good luck with this.

That's cool. I had a friend in high school whose family was selected for the Nielsen ratings. They had a box hooked up to their TV as well. They also had a barcode scanner installed in the kitchen and barcode scanned all their groceries for 1 year. It was kinda interesting.

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OoO Fun!! I've always wanted to do that, lol. But then I usually watch music videos all day, so it would be boring, lol.

I think that's very cool! It's sometimes nice to think that your opinions might count for something, huh? Enjoy the extra bucks too-every little bit helps!

I used to work for a certain company already mentioned that did such ratings. So, I'll never be able to have the box hooked up to any of my TVs.

It's interesting to be a part of, or so I hear, but it's not for me.

I'd love to do that. I watch so much different stuff to everyone else that I would totally throw the numbers! Ever since I got Sky+ and can record stuff so easily I just watch rubbish. I have half of the last series of Biggest Loser taking up most the of memory (they so need to show the next one so I can delete them!). Between that and repeats of Project Runway I am pretty much the only person in the UK whose reality TV viewing doesn't involve dancing or singing!

i missed the biggest loser this time rounf angelD, i end watching re-runs... its not as fun though and i really dislike the uk trainers!

I didn't like the UK one either. Its just not the same. Don't think they've done a new series in years actually.

They had the couples series on Sky Real Lives earlier this year and Living had the first two series on a couple of months ago but nothing at the moment. I search the schedules regularly trying to find it. I'm hoping it will pop up in January when all the shows are about losing weight!

Just wondering how they scanned fresh fruits & vegetables. :D