nielsen is too slow. even though they say, it is seems like this would be something that they have done. >> a lot of times it turns out to be nielsen is speeding up and waking up. they are used to being a monopoly. they tried to challenge and stuck to the ratings. >> can i be clear on what it is these guys want to measure. you are walking through the actual habit that they are trying to figure out that people do. they are online and they are watching regular television and they switch over to online. that is not measured. >> this is -- they want to measure everything. if someone is watching, they want to measure how every individual was in different ways. they can be watching video online and mtv.com and mtv on the television. this is not finalized yet. >> hold on. wait. if you are going to measure the media part as in watching cable, why is that not a direct challenge to nielsen? >> that's a good question. >> what are would be "the challenge"? >> i have spoken to companies that are involved and said to m

far beyond nielsen's numbers.he new focus, on how people interact with content and ads online and on mobile devices. one source close to the discussion says this reflects dissatisfaction clients have with nielsen's monopoly. consumers watch an increasing amount of video online and on their mobile phones, so media giants under pressure from declining broadcast tv ads are eager to monetize these new viewers, and advertisers are anxious to reach them. >> it's an area of concern that the right demo is not necessarily watching the advertisement on the television. so i think what they are trying to do is reach the right audience. but at the same time advertisers also want to have their advertisement next to the right context. >> immediate yo conglomerate ceos say advertising is stabilizing and expected to pick up in the fall, but erin, it seems the future really is online, giving these rivals good reason to team up to better understand and profit from this new market. back to you. >> thank you, julia. and coming up, fre

nielsen?well, we have to address that, wolf, there's no question, because the issue of excessive cost is very real. we have to do something about that in this country, and we know that there are significant costs of defensive medicine, because doctors are afraid of being sued because they get sued. and so, it's a real problem. >> do you agree, doctor? >> again, i applaud dr. nielsen, who's ban longtime advocate of reform, health insurance reform and physician -- physician rights. but what i'm puzzled by is that this bill -- this is a thousand-page bill that came out, took 21 members of the ama board of trustees 36 hours to endorse this. those things weren't even mentioned. there was no mention of malpractice reform. the real question was what was in it for ama to endorse this? >> let's ask dr. nielsen. why did the ama support the house version? >> well, you make a good distinction, and i need to make sure that the audience understands the distinction between endorse and support. we did, in fac

. >> a new threat may be emerging to nielsen's rating empire. oh-g. detai details when we come back. >>> media giants like disney and nbc universal along with major advertisers like procter & gamble and at&t plus ad agencies like wpp's m group and star com media vests are all in talks about forming a new media measurement consortium. the media industry is under pressure as consumers watch an increasing amount of video online and on their mobile phones where advertisers are anxious to reach them. traditional broadcast tv revenue is dropping and new media revenue isn't growing fast enough to compensate for the decline. all of this pushing content creators, ad buyers, and sellers to rush to figure out where and how viewers are watching and to turn that knowledge into profits. the new consortium in the works would take on nielsen's ratings monopoly that sets tv ad prices. and though nielsen does measure online video viewing, those stats aren't incorporated into its main ratings. some sources say the new resources if added to nielsen's would help focus on

obviously nielsen dominates on traditional media, on television.ut nel sen doesn't go where these companies want to go. nielsen hasn't been able to do this. so this consortium is very much in the works. we're talking about nbc universal and disney, which sources tell me are among those to be most likely to be part of the consortium when they're completed but nothing is finalized yet. a lot of them could drop out before anything is final. in terms of timing some of these companies tell me they're looking to get this done by mid to late september, but it all depends on what happens in terms of the negotiations. so dennis, this is still very much up in the works but we'll keep you posted. >> thanks a lot, julie. appreciate it. and folk, let me just tell you something. i want any new ratings system to get my ratings up. they're simply too low. i've watched nielsen 20 years. they'll come up with rival services and this plan will get nowhere. next up, my heroes of capitalism. julie, you are not on the list. i'll give you a hint, though. it's two men with

i think lesley nielsen is a great answer. have said you step into cinema. >> bob: that's my life. another great one in the late eric greg was one of my favorite. always fun. tom browning. making fun of his weight one day at hot day at shea with a cheeseburger when he wasn't pitching and i truly believe tom wanted to go hang out in the clubhouse and where it was cooler and aaron greg, when he got to third base that day, tossed tommy out from the dugout. you're out of here. hes toed him out. >> he knew who did it? >> of course he knew who did it! >> bob: guzman lines out to cameron and cristian guzman, folks, i believe, is back, hitting line drives again. zimmerman has scored his 89th and 90th runs of the year. and only albert pujols with 96 has scored more. so ryan is building -- knock on wood -- a year year here. he has a career number of home runs with 26. adam dunn's presence made a dramatic difference how other teams pitch to ryan now. they have been nasty-pitching this guy for three years knowing that hitters behind him w

produced by rick nielsen. >> it wasn't produced by rick nielsen, he played on it.ou are thinking of along the red lights. there were no hits on it. >> greg: that was a good song. >> you are into it. >> greg: and ecstatic that came after it incorporated the new wave kind of sounds but it was great sounds. >> okay. what else do you know? >> what other -- >> greg: what is your least favorite hall and oates song? >> my least favorite album is beauty on the backstreet and no songs from there are in the boxed set which comes out october 6th. >> greg: i got to bring this up. everybody is wondering, you shaved off your trademark mustache. how did the fans react? >> it was twenty years ago. >> greg: i'm very slow. >> i don't think it was that big a deal. it has since become this iconic symbol. >> greg: you wrote a forward to a book on mustache. >> i wrote a forward to a book on mustaches and we have a great cartoon coming out where my mustache is my alter ego. >> greg: did you suffer from my mustache phantom pain. >> my lip sweated. >> greg: did you ever think about going t

and also james rousseau vice president of global consumer insight at the nielsen company. thank you to both of you for joining us. james, let me start with you. everyone's act like this is going to be a horrendous back to school season but rebecca just said spending's down 8%. that doesn't sound that bad to me. >> well, we're looking for evidence of a recovery, sustained recovery in consumer spending, and back to school is an interesting dynamic because what we're seeing here are two different areas. one we have the essential necessity component of back to school, which is actually projected from nielsen to do relatively well. our sales forecast is up 1%. if i can say, that's relatively well. the other side of back to school, though, is more the discretionary purchases, more of the apparel pieces to back to school. and there we're expecting to see a continuation of a slowdown. so the story in back to school really is one of continued moderation as consumers focus essentially on their back to school level of spending, basic spending, and potentially albeit at very minor lev

a nielsen study found that teens send and receive nearly 80 messages a day. that's more than double last year's average. physicians and psychologists fear the constant communication could lead to anxiety, distraction from schoolwork, poor grades and loss of sleep. >>> researchers at m.i.t. have been testing human memory. they showed people thousands of images and report being surprised at how well pictures are remembered. so, if you're studying for a big test, flash cards are a great idea. jessica? >>> it's a dog lover's dream -- going to class with canines. felipe has the story. felipe? >> jessica, in this class the teens are leading the way. they're training dogs to assist people with disabilities. they're also learning skills that can help them in their future careers and their personal lives. these dogs are eager to get to school. they're also forming a special bond with their teen trainers. >> i started playing with dogs and training dogs when i was a young girl. >> a love of dogs and personal experience inspired jill felice to start assistance dogs of t

plans to give nielsen a run for its money. julia? >> their, mark. sources tell me a major partnership is in the works to form a consortium that measures media consumption across all format particularly online and mobile. the consortium is not finalized nor is the list of companies involved. the sources tell me among the media giants, disney and nbc universal are the most committed to participating. in the venture. all media companies, top adviser like procter and gamble, biggest advertising agencies, starcom are all talking about being a part. the idea would be to go beyond what nielsen's dom in an rating system offers. it would address tv measurements would focus on how consumers interact with content and advertising in new media. currently advertising buys are based on tv ratings and measured only by nielsen and a company measures online video viewing and those numbers aren't incorporated into its main ratings. this comes as quarterly as sales have fallen from media companies across the board reflecting lower broadcast ratings and shift of consume

. >> reporter: a new nielsen study finds that 64% of people on twitter are adults. nefa. my own bu toh ucse to it keep in . with clients. >> reporter: only 16% of teens tweet. even baby boomers have them beat. a columnist for federal computer week and a twitter- holic says he is not surprised. >> text messages and web access east cost money. and they would rather use the money they do spend to send text messages directly to their friends. >> this is my work phone. it has unlimited texting and unlimited internet. that means i can twitter all day, and it doesn't cost a thing. >> if you look at the people that are the most popular, they tend to be computer programmers, marketers, salespeople, entrepreneurs, celebrities. >> reporter: many teenagers don't even have twitter in their vocabulary. >> i was kind of curious about twitter. i still don't understand it. >> reporter: and they may not need to. >> my friends are at school. so i could talk to them at school. >> reporter: we adults can't see our friends every day at school. so many people we know might live out of state as

the city solicitor george nielsen said no such law exists here in baltimore. >> some folks believe city taxpayers should not wind up footing the bill. >> indictment was handed down, at that point she is on her own. no way should the taxpayers of the city of baltimore pay for the legal fees if she is not found innocent. >> with criminal charges reinstateed the legal bills are rising. >> i have to believe, that it is in excess of a million dollars. >> university of baltimore professor said mayor sheila dixon could seek reimbursement from the board of estimates. >> if you are found not guilty. or they drop charges you are reimbursed. politically that doesn't sell as well in times, when we are no terrible economic times. >> issues that won't be resolved until the mayor's criminal case has concluded. in baltimore, john rydell, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> a spokesperson for mayor sheila dixoned the mayor does not currently have a legal defense disciplined state will revoke more than 150 driver's licenses issued in connection to a federal fraud case. licenses issued before are (inaudible). >> now

obama. " the nielsen company says facebook's greatest growth has come from people ages 35-49. last year the site added almost twice as many as 50 to 64-year-old sit tores than it did under the age of 18. also, dowd does have her own fan page on facebook, presumably not used for hooking up or cyber stalking. o sarah palin and president obama are understandably on opposite sides of the healthcare debate, but tonight we show you one family bonded by flesh and blood that is separated by healthcare policies. gatherings like this, according to brad woodhouse, the democratic national committee's communications director, are, quote, angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists." well, in this case, the leader of the so-called mob -- >> if you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until the government offers it for free. >> it is brad's brother, dallas woodhouse, the north carolina state director of americans for prosperity. they are direct opposite sides of the healthcare reform debate. >> the system in america is broken. it is too costly. too many people don't have c

i was in rehearsals for that and luckily nielsen pulled our rights on that and we thought what would the do? and we feud a flawed contradictory daro and human, accessible daro and in this presentation we let the summations breathe a little more and they have more power and potency. they become arguments and summations that actually resonate on an emotional an intellectual level as well. >> reporter: where did this passion for justice come from inside of daro? his father was an abolitionist and his mother worked for women's rights. >> he is actually been quoted several times as saying, i'm not here to use the law to protect my client. i'm here to protect my client from the law. he happened to be able to channel his gifts, his empathy to his fellow man through the law and so he was able to actually do what you would want a representative to do to actually represent someone, to actually become them and he had, he was a social reformer, he was a philosopher. he was quoted as saying behind every lawyer is the rack of a poet and we had all kinds of dynamics about him and the law is where h

he is the highest selling artist after death since nielsen started tracking. january 1st of this year until the week he died he sold 297,000 albums. compare that to 3.73 million three weeks later. in 2009 prior to the week he died fans downloaded 1.3 million of his songs. five weeks later it jumped to 8.5 million. he had the top ten albums on the billboard charts for two weeks, the first time any artist alive or dead has done that. this senior editor from forbes says the time is now for jackson's estate to cash in. >> right now michael jackson has his best shot ever because everyone is looking at it through rosie, tinted glasses. the further we get from his death the more the sunglasses are taken off. the value of his assets will go down. >> reporter: no doubt jackson's family and his creditors hope that doesn't happen any time soon. now the most significant piece of business to come from today's estate hearing was the fact that the will was sent on to probate which will review his wishes and interpret his instructions. this means the judge accepted the will a

he and his caddy chuckled toward the gallery where somebody might have had one of those leslie nielsens or maybe john daly stepped on a duck. then the turkey where they demolished the old flower factory on saturday. controlled demolition as you see. controlled quite poorly as a matter of fact. the engineering teams figured the building would collapse under its own weight but as you can see the thing instead tumbled onto its roof like a rubrics cube. as experts determine the next move the old factory is going to go back to work pumping out upside down cakes. >>> in birther land they found president obama's birth certificate. apparently he was born in a city that didn't exist yet in a republic that wasn't a republic yet. at what price america's politicians? senator john thune, his obstruction of health care reform was worth $1,206,176 in contributions from the insurance, hospital, and pharma industries. special comment ahead. first the best persons in the world. "dateline" the newseum in washington, d.c., number three best wheels coming off michelle malkin saying if you put enough cheese

so i use my influence for some years and detritus of a lady to nielsen of the big names and en some ofhe small names in the comic books publishing to finally pay attention to presenting african characters and some other characters of color in honorable and respectable ways. they assure@ me every year that they were going to get right on that baron but, ofourse, the did not. after some amount of years went by sen i am wasting my time, here i am and pumping up this thing. and they are not coming through for everybody else. this i what i'm going to do. and as billing and comic book review empire and people send any notes from all over the world and want me to speak about, these and how they can be used in schools. i had a nonprofit or position based on this and i turned my back on all of that in seven i'm going to researc history to see whereeal african people have real heroes. so i turned my back on all of it to come on thehole career. i started doing research cross-cultural in ancient history and i kept on saying two things. i kept on seeing this named memnon and everywhere i turned. an

. >> reporter: a new nielsen study finds that 64% of people on twitter are adults. >> i own my own business. so i use to it keep in touch with clients. >> rert: eronly 16% of teens tweet, even baby boomers have them beat. a columnist for federal computer week and a twitter high pressure holic says he is not surprised. >> text messages and web access cost money. and they would rather not spend the money or use the money they do spend to send text messages directory. >> reporter: this is my work phone. it has unlimited texting and unlimited internet. that means i can twitter all day and it doesn't cost a things. >> the prime minister that are the most popular, they tend to be computer programmers, marketers, salespeople, entrepreneurs, celebrities. >> reporter: many teenagers don't even have twitter in their vocabulary. >> i was kind of curious about twitter. i still don't understand it. >> reporter: and they may not need to. >> my friends are at school. so i talk to them at school. >> reporter: in washington, i'm lindsey mastis, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> why don't teens tweet? okay, we hav

according to nielsen ratings, they are the most popular automotive site.noticed. they are teaming up with the day because of the popularity there. they will put new cars on ebay. the brands they will deal with is buick, chevy, and pontiac. there are some restrictions to this. it is only in california. it is only with general motors' partnership with ebay. it runs from tomorrow through labor day weekend. of course, that is a big car sale weekend. that is what will happen. you asked about pricing. what they're most interested and -- it is the ebay form. they expect to see some really attractive pricing if you buy it now. that is only a click away. that is the aggressive price cutting and price negotiations that edmonds is expecting. if your in california, you can jump on, but if you live in other states, you will have to wait and see if general motors decides to expand this plan. >rick: i guess you have to get creative. jane: we want to go over to his deadly typhoon that is sweeping through taiwan and china. have you seen these pictures? look at that that is

in fact, he's the highest-selling artist after death since nielsen started tracking this stuff in 1991ers don't lie. from january 1st of this year until the week he died, jackson told 297,000 albums. compare that to 3.73 million 5 weeks later. and in 2009, prior to the week he died, fans downloaded just 1.3 million of his songs. 5 weeks later, it had jumped to 8.5 million. also, he had the top ten albums on the "billboard" chart for two weeks. the first time any artist, alive or dead, has done that. this senior editor from "forbes" says the time is now for jackson's estate to cash in. >> right now, michael jackson's got his best shot ever, because everyone is looking at it through rhodey-tinted glasses, and the further we get away from his death, the more you'll see the sunglasses taken off. and so the value of his assets will actually go down. >> reporter: no doubt jackson's family and his creditors hope that doesn't happen anytime soon. randi kaye, cnn, los angeles. >>> well, getting elected to any office, never an easy thing to do, especially difficult in afghanistan, and especially

according to nielsen, the premier was the highest rated series premier of "real housewives" in its franchiseing? >> huge. the franchise is a huge water cooler sensation and the bar keeps being raised by these women and so i think people are obsessed with watching the atlanta housewives just kind of live their lives outloud and interact in their own way. >> you're talking about raising the bar. because actually this season, there is a surprise with you because last season i understand you were the friendly one, the one everybody liked and it was easy. that's not happening this time. what's going on? >> i definitely was not the one everybody liked last year. i was friendlier. this year there's just been a lot of controversy. there's fights with lisa and i, fights, the drama is intense. >> but why? i have to ask, it looks real. is this real or is this a television show? >> oh, no, it's real. >> it has a documentary kind of feeling when you look at it. >> right. >> but kim, you're on television yelling at people. does that -- >> i'm embarrassed at times. definitely. i'm definitely embarrassed. b

so when i was doing my television show, it was number one in the nielsen rating. was singing duets. ella fitzgerald. nat king cole, sammy davis, tony bennett, perry como. one day harry belafonte called. he was the biggest entertainer in the world. he said, i like the way you treat your guests on your show. would you like me to come on and sing a couple songs and maybe do something together? i was flabbergasted. and so i said, boy, would die. i went then to announce this great invitation or opportunity to our sponsor, chevrolet and to abc and the ad agency. and they said we can't do this because he is really russling feathers with his civil-rights stand. so we can't have him. and you mean i have to say no to harry belafonte. yes, sadly. and i said, well, it's not the pat boone show. i appreciate the opportunity, but you will have to give someone else to take over from here. you're going to leave your own show for this? i said, you know it's more than this. it is a bigger issue than that i understand it, but i can't be part of it. thank you for the opportunity. well