My Roku box calls its different providers “channels,” one of which is Pandora, which in turn calls the dozen music “channels” I’ve set “stations.” Joe Mandese writes of Nielsen’s changing practice:
In a move that is a bit ironic and very symbolic for the television industry, Nielsen Wednesday said it has effectively turned off the TV channel. As part of the release of an annual report on America's television audiences, Nielsen said it had dropped one of its most popular features - data showing how many channels the average TV household receives - because in a digital, time-shifted multichannel universe, there no longer is a "consistent" meaning for the term "channel." …
Link: MediaPost. --Dennis
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