Nielsen Media Research is the foremost authority on the television viewing habits
of Americans. Find out more about how Nielsen tracks television
viewing and collects the data that is critical to the television industry.
According to their site, PBS serves over 75 million people each week. See
the various types of programming this noncommercial media corporation has to
offer the public.
Want to know the current,
top-rated telenovelas? How about this week's futbol schedule?
Visit Univision's
television page.
The Interactive
Television Research Institute focuses on researching all the major
components of television: audience, advertising, and the media. Take a look at
their Web page to get a look at how they conduct their work, as well as some of
the projects they have completed and are currently researching.
Television
History--The First 75 Years
provides a good overview of the development of modern day television
technology. The inventors and the technology, from across the world, are
documented on this site.
The National Institute
on Media and the Family presents some eye-opening statistics on children's
television usage. The site also features a great deal of research and resources
for parents trying to manage what their children watch on TV.