AGB Nielsen Philippines

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TV ratings of the day's top-rating daytime program for both ABS-CBN and GMA from March to December 2007.

TV ratings of the the day's top-rating primetime program for both ABS-CBN and GMA from March to December 2007.

AGB-Nielsen Media Research Philippines, popularly called AGB Nielsen, is a market research firm in the Philippines specializing in broadcast media. AGB Nielsen conducts television ratings for certain areas in the Philippines, most notably in urban areas.

1 History
2 Markets
3 Classification
4 See also
5 References

[edit] History

AGB Nielsen was created by the merger of the Audits of Great Britain-Philippines (established in 1999) and Nielsen Media Research (established 1992) on 2005 as a subsidiary of AGB Nielsen Media Research, a joint venture formed by the AGB Group & the TAM business of The Nielsen Company in March 2005.^[1]

On October 2006, AGB Nielsen established the Philippines' first national television audience measurement panel called the "Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement (NUTAM)" that covered 95% of urban areas in the country. AGB Nielsen also conducts reports on three metropolitan cities called "Metro City TAM" (MCTAM) in addition to, Metro Manila, Cebu City and Davao City and Iloilo City.^[1]

On December 20, 2007, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation filed a civil case against AGB Nielsen after ABS-CBN discovered tampering in ratings in Bacolod. The next day, ABS-CBN reported through their AM station DZMM that AGB Nilesen pointed GMA Network was the one behind the manipulation of ratings in Bacolod. On January 3, 2008, GMA sued for P15 million ABS-CBN and some of its employees for libel. On January 8, Quezon City regional trial court (RTC) junked ABS-CBN's case against AGB Nielsen saying it was prematurely filed.

[edit] Markets

Area	Population	% - urban
Metro Manila and suburbs	15.9 million	46%
Mega Manila	17.9 million	52%
MegaTAM markets*	13.2 million	38%
Balance-urban Philippines	16.5 million	48%
Urban Philippines	34.4 million	100%
Philippines	88.7 million	--
*Metro Manila, Iloilo City, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao

AGB Nielsen market size
region			percent
MegaTAM			15%
Metro Manila			18%
Mega Manila			20%
Other urban			19%
Total urban			39%
Philippines			100%

The largest television market is at Mega Manila; in AGB-Nielsen's case, Mega Manila consists of Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna. Mega Manila is represented by 400 panel homes. Other areas are North and Central Luzon with 300 homes; South Luzon, 300 homes; Visayas, 300 homes; and Mindanao, 200 homes. These 1,500 panel homes comprise the National Urban Television Audience Measurement (NUTAM) and are scattered throughout the country. The NUTAM, which includes 7,260,723 national urban TV homes, does not comprise the entire Philippines, but only the urban centers.^[2] The survey encompasses 34 million individuals or 95% of urban Philippines,^[3] which comprises about 38% of the entire country.