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  •            Mikhail had given up on decapitating the Audimeter after first Bruce and then my parents stopped watching him.

    The Nielsens (part two) Michael Larkin 2010

  •  I shivered after them and watched as my Mother, as if in some kind of prearranged gesture, extended her arms out before her, dropped the Audimeter into the light dust of snow that had layered our abbreviated front lawn, and then gestured to Mikhail to hand her the bat.

    The Nielsens (part two) Michael Larkin 2010

  •            The Fonz is the first thing our Audimeter registered.

    The Nielsens (part one) 2010

  •  Sometimes, she'd walk right up to the TV, lean into the plastic grill jutting from its behind and speak at the Audimeter.

    The Nielsens (part one) 2010

  •            Father repeated the word in wonder:   “Audimeter.”

    The Nielsens (part one) 2010

  •            We four stood in the hall, and Father opened the door on Bruce the technician, who'd installed the Audimeter some seven months prior.

    The Nielsens (part two) Michael Larkin 2010

  •  Father wasn't a fan ofHappy Days, would normally have gone hunting for a movie of the week or a cop show likeMannixorRockford Files, but now we had the Audimeter and he was giving a chance to things he'd never tried before.

    The Nielsens (part one) 2010

  •  Father took it solemnly and then, without pausing, as if he was afraid to lose his resolve, he hurtled it through the air with the awkward coordination of someone who hadn't swung a bat since boyhood, and brought it down hard onto the Audimeter.

    The Nielsens (part two) Michael Larkin 2010

  •  It wasn't long before Bruce had the Audimeter extracted and resting atop the TV like some alien being.

    The Nielsens (part two) Michael Larkin 2010

  •             “An Audimeter,” Bruce the technician said.

    The Nielsens (part one) 2010

  • Technology has boosted sellers' ability to gather consumer data en masse. Early market research firms developed “Audimeters,” literal black boxes that consumers could attach to their radios or TVs, to collect and share information about the stations they listened to or shows they watched.

    Behind the FTC’s Inquiry into Surveillance Pricing Practices Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024

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