Video Research Removes Television Viewer Ratings Monitors Subjected to Outside Influence from Monitor list - Distributes Corrected Ratings Data as of October 27.
October 27, 2003
In order to protect the reliability of viewer ratings data, Video Research Ltd. (Tokyo, Tsuyoshi Takeuchi, President) has employed great diligence to acquire a list of the television viewer ratings monitors who, it was discovered on October 24, had been influenced by an outside third party.
On the evening of the 26th the list of influenced ratings monitors was obtained and company-wide emergency measures were implemented to identify the relevant monitors and remove their viewing data from the viewer ratings tabulation. By midnight of the 26th accurate Kanto region viewer rating data for the period Friday, October 24th to Sunday, October 26th had been established.
On the morning of Monday, October 27th, the corrected data for the period was distributed.
