The industry argued its own ratings system is adequate to keep violent games from children.
The ratings system in the US for TV audience numbers has not kept up with technology.
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Few advertisers want to rely entirely on traditional research, particularly America's Nielsen television-ratings system.
Part of the reason: After decades of fairly consistent measurement, the ratings system is undergoing an overhaul.
The Forbes ratings system was launched more than 30 years ago and now covers about 2, 500 funds.
Using our skewed gaming ratings system, that is not a good score for a game supposedly this important.
For example, he has developed a first-of-its-kind ratings system for independent software coders, modeled on Major League Baseball statistics.
Late-Monday, Arbitron, said it was delaying the expansion of its new electronic radio ratings system, the Portable People Meter.
The agreement with the National Association of Theatre Owners is voluntary--as is the ratings system itself--but others want stricter regulations.
Nielsen, the same outfit that rates TV shows, is already creating a ratings system to accurately count the Internet audience.
The BBC said it was the most successful new drama series on the channel since 2001, when the current ratings system began.
The ratings system, which will start being rolled out later this year, will be based on the Ofsted system used in schools.
The ratings system wasn't really invented to counsel parents, however, but to head off the threat of local censor boards in many cities and states.
That's not to say our ratings system didn't have any shortcomings.
Moving toward a relative ratings system is not a silver bullet, but it may be a useful incremental step toward smaller, less damaging credit cycles in the future.
The current ratings system is useful primarily for the parents of small children who are concerned that images or situations may be disturbing for young minds.
All have matched or beaten the Nareit index in the past five years and score high in our Best Buy ratings system, which measures performance against risk and expenses.
In June, a study of 55 adults published in the journal Pediatrics concluded that a mandatory universal ratings system for all media products needs to be created.
Who's Your Daddy, the first episode of which was shown on 3 January, pulled in a disappointing audience of 6.3 million, according to the Nielsen ratings system.
Late-Monday, Arbitron (nyse: ARB - news - people ), said it was delaying the expansion of its new electronic radio ratings system, the Portable People Meter.
At the same time, Bouvard said, installing a new, reliable ratings system will take time, both from a technological standpoint and in terms of getting a methodology that will satisfy advertisers and an industry sanctioning body.
For other types of funds, the ratings system uses a blend of all up months since June 1999 to get a bull market rating, and a blend of all down months for the down market grade.
And this has caused a lot of them - that is colleges and universities - to engage in the kind of gaming exercise to prop up their ratings under the US News and World Report ratings system.
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She is not worried about the lack of a local ratings system in the UK, which some experts have said will make it difficult to sell advertising, insisting that "there are other ways of measuring the size of audiences".
From next year, changes to the ratings system will give more weight to the views of those using care services and fines will be able to be levied against providers the regulator considers are not providing a good enough service.
In addition, in our current system ratings tend to get "stale"--or become irrelevant--as market dynamics shift.
Actor James Van Der Beek has criticised US television's reliance on ratings, calling the system "antiquated".
The local system of ratings notches isn't directly comparable with international systems, but the ratio of upgrades to downgrades is now heading towards parity, from two or more a year ago.
It was nestled next to the Yugo in quality ratings, and its electrical system was joke fodder.
There are questions, too, about how capital should be allocated to match these ratings, and whether the system would give regulators too big a role.
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