Sinclair Licenses Nielsen Local TV Voter Ratings

By Michael Malone
published

Sinclair Broadcast Group has agreed to license Nielsen’s Local TV Voter Ratings in six hot political markets.

Nielsen’s new Voter Ratings service offers “insights into how voter segments consume local media and quantifies local TV station reach for key voter categories,” according to Nielsen.

Sinclair is licensing the data in Washington D.C.; Pittsburgh; Greenville (S.C.)-Spartanburg (S.C.)-Asheville (N.C.); West Palm Beach, Fla.; Las Vegas, Nev.; and Richmond, Va, Va. Political ad spending in these markets is expected to be plentiful.

“The 2016 political race is accelerating, and ad spending is already flowing into local markets,” said Matt O’Grady, executive VP and managing director for local media at Nielsen. "Providing our clients with voter insights is critical to their success in this election cycle."

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Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.