Aircooled VW South Africa

Ferdi's VW Swop Meet - 30 August

on@ 1:00PM SABC3 This Sunday Car Quest get everyone you know to watch so that the show can get high rating il try post them from the guyz nextdoor, then we can see how many people are in to old vws

is that this Sunday? I must tell Dirk.

Thanks Vuyo
Recording set.

sorry guyz its on @ 12:30

I saw Vuyo on TV!! You looked like one of the guys from Biker Build-Off with that bandanna.

Saw Bugger's Bus and Beetlefanatics too,an Aircooledvwsa sticker on the back of a Split.Nice show of cars guys!

Missed it!

Got it on tape, not to worry!

theqs wrote:Got it on tape, not to worry!

Be indeed worried. Be VERY worried....

So obviously I didnt see it...


But I have a question though....... How the hell do they 'measure' ratings? How do they KNOW how many people actually 'logs on' onto any given channel???? Especially if it is old style Antenna reception..... You TV doesnt transmit back to the braodcasting station..... So HOW THE F... do they calculate ratings? This is one thing that boggled my mind for years now.....

My bus was the last to be shown,super stoked it got some airtime

ZeroAxe wrote:So obviously I didnt see it...


But I have a question though....... How the hell do they 'measure' ratings? How do they KNOW how many people actually 'logs on' onto any given channel???? Especially if it is old style Antenna reception..... You TV doesnt transmit back to the braodcasting station..... So HOW THE F... do they calculate ratings? This is one thing that boggled my mind for years now.....

They measure it by the signal strength that is send out.If only a 1000 viewers watch a specific channel,the signal sent is not so high.The more viewers,the stronger the signal has to be.That is measured in inclinations of 1000.

Nowadays with satelite,they know how many people is on one particular channel at any time and those can be measured in ones.

ZeroAxe wrote:So obviously I didnt see it...


But I have a question though....... How the hell do they 'measure' ratings? How do they KNOW how many people actually 'logs on' onto any given channel???? Especially if it is old style Antenna reception..... You TV doesnt transmit back to the braodcasting station..... So HOW THE F... do they calculate ratings? This is one thing that boggled my mind for years now.....

if somebody rimides tomorrow ill TRY get the insert and stream it on the fourum. i can also see if i can get the A.R.s of the show and see how many vewers we got. ho yes!! old school vw drivers are badass:hangloose:

Chris wrote:

ZeroAxe wrote:So obviously I didnt see it...


But I have a question though....... How the hell do they 'measure' ratings? How do they KNOW how many people actually 'logs on' onto any given channel???? Especially if it is old style Antenna reception..... You TV doesnt transmit back to the braodcasting station..... So HOW THE F... do they calculate ratings? This is one thing that boggled my mind for years now.....

They measure it by the signal strength that is send out.If only a 1000 viewers watch a specific channel,the signal sent is not so high.The more viewers,the stronger the signal has to be.That is measured in inclinations of 1000.

Nowadays with satelite,they know how many people is on one particular channel at any time and those can be measured in ones.

I still dont get it.... To me, there is not logic about it. Once a signal is sent out, it's out....!? So if the signal for 1000viewers was not strong enough in the first place, then the other 50 that was "online" missed out!? I hear what you are saying, but I just dont get it..... Deja Vu... reminds me of my maths teacher trying to teach me "maths logic"...

Satellite TV cant send back a signal to indicate what you are watching, its one way communication in that application, so that wont work.
LOL @ TV signal strength, good one Chris.

AFAIK, it is done like any other market research project. Phone calls, SMS competitions, then extrapolated by using demographics of who would PROBABLY watch that kind of programme/sport/channel etc and statistics compiled.

In the US the Nielsen ratings company actually installs SET Top boxes to record viewing habits,or with CABLE TV decoders they could potentially enable bi-directional communication.

It actually does work like that.

It is the same way power in your house gets used.The more appliances gets switched on,the more power is used.