Nielsen Likely Undercounted Some Pandemic Audiences, Media Review Finds

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty was left unimpressed after Home Secretary Priti Patel announced she will allow a "humanitarian route" for refugees from Ukraine seeking a safe passage to the UK. In a feisty Twitter retort this morning, she made her opinion clear, hinting that, in her eyes, the move didn't go nearly far enough.Last night, Harry Cole, the political editor of The Sun, posted a statement from the Home Secretary on Twitter.It read: "Home Sec to Sun: 'In response to the desperation I saw with my own eyes at the Polish border two days ago, I’m urgently escalating our response to the growing humanitarian crisis."'I am now investigating the legal options to create a humanitarian route.'”Currently, only those with family members living in Britain have the right to receive asylum here, but Priti announced she wanted to ensure that "anyone without ties to the UK fleeing the conflict...

MICHELLE Heaton has revealed she's had boob surgery after a troll's nasty comments raised alarm bells about her old implants. The Liberty X singer, 42, underwent a double mastectomy 10 years ago after discovering she had an 85 per cent chance of developing breast cancer.

how she smothers herself in food for cash.The Scottish beauty is also a cam girl where she rakes in money for her racy content and has even admitted she can earn money by just lounging around in her lingerie.But, life can’t get much easier for the red-headed bombshell because she even earns money by simply using the toilet.Nova has already made over £30,000 and is saving to buy a house while splashing the cash on luxury holidays to Monaco and Marbella. The adult star has now exclusively spoken to the Daily Star about the ins and outs of going to the loo for money.Nova explained: “Water sports is when men get turned on by urine.

Cristiano Ronaldo's sister has dropped a hint on social media over the mystery surrounding his absence from the Manchester derby.The 37-year-old was left out of the Manchester United squad to face Manchester City on Sunday by manager Ralf Rangnick and was not present at the Etihad Stadium.Fans had speculated that the Portuguese forward may have picked up an injury in training or been ill, with reports claiming he has flown to his native Portugal.However, his sister Katia Aveiro has now liked a post on Instagram that claims Ronaldo is neither injured or ill and that his absence was for tactical reasons.The post argued that Rangnick had decided against selecting Ronaldo in order to play with a more defensive style for the short trip to the Premier League champions.It was the first time since his return to Old Trafford that Ronaldo had missed a league match for reasons other than injury.He has scored 15 goals in 30 appearances since signing from Juventus at the end of the summer transfer window, but doubts remain over his future.Should Cristiano Ronaldo leave Manchester United in the summer? Let us know in the comments section below.Want to be on the ball with all of the latest football news?Well then sign up for the brilliant Daily Star football email newsletter!From the latest transfer news to the agenda-setting stories, get it all in your email inbox - don't miss a thing.It only takes a matter of seconds.Simply type your email address into the box at the top of this article and hit 'subscribe'.And that's it, job done.

Gina Stewart, 51, from Australia, was voted one of Maxim magazines Hot 100 list, and has more than 319,000 Instagram followers, @ginastweartofficial. The mum-of-four, and grandmother of two, takes pride in being the “healthiest” she can and keeping her figure trim and toned.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Weather unveiled its senior executive structure ahead of a launch of its ad-supported streaming service devoted to all things meteorological in the third quarter of 2021.The leadership team will include: David Clark, senior vice president and head of programming; Steve Baron. senior vice president of digital product and strategy; Mike McClain, senior vice president and general manager; Dianne Doctor, vice president of programming development; Tim Gaughan, vice president of news operations; and Deante Parker director and head of video operations and audience development.Each executive will report directly to Sharri Berg, president of the new unit.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTV ratings are down. But the networks aren’t letting that get in the way of demanding big price hikes in their annual negotiations with Madison Avenue.Even as advertisers express concern about declines in the live audiences tuning in for TV staples like “Young Sheldon,” “This Is Us” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” they appear to be on the verge of capitulating to marketplace pressure.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIt’s just the latest salvo in TV’s never-ending morning-news wars: CBS’ Gayle King is about to stroll into territory long dominated by ABC’s Robin Roberts.Starting this fall, “CBS This Morning” will hold forth from a new studio in New York’s Times Square. The facility is located in the corporate headquarters of CBS News’ corporate parent, ViacomCBS, and once hosted the long-running MTV program “TRL.” It can be seen from the windows of the New York set that houses ABC morning rival “Good Morning America,” which operates a few blocks away.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDiscovery brought a vision to advertisers this year that it will be hard to duplicate in sessions to come.The owner of the TLC, Food Network and HGTV cable outlets spent Wednesday morning explaining how its networks, focused largely on reality and documentary programming, could stand through even conditions spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. Programming and advertising executives nodded to new “at home” formats devised for popular hosts like Guy Fieri and The Pioneer Woman, while articulating new shows and series that will debut in weeks to come.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe people who run one of the nation’s best-known broadcast networks think they’ve come up with a way to slow the flow of ad dollars from traditional TV to streaming-video rivals.CBS plans sometime in the second half of 2021 to start making available new technology that will let advertisers buy commercials that are sent only to a particular subset of the network’s viewing audience.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe largest TV networks are getting ready to snare billions of dollars from Madison Avenue. And lose them, all at the same time.Expectations are high for the industry’s annual upfront, when TV networks try to sell the bulk of their commercial inventory for the upcoming season.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News will expand its recent “Soul of a Nation” series with two primetime specials designed to commemorate the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death and Juneteenth.“After Floyd: The Year that Shook the World – A Soul of a Nation Special,” will air Tuesday, May 25 from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., and will attempt to chronicle the events around Floyd’s death and consider how the nation moves forward from it.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIn the space of just a few weeks, a group of Madison Avenue heavyweights — with names like General Motors, Interpublic Group and WPP — has made public guarantees of ad money for some of the industry’s smaller media outlets, all owned by Black entrepreneurs. Getting these companies to talk about ad spending in public is an amazing feat.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTV usually belongs to the celebrities who play the nation’s favorite characters — people such as Ellen Pompeo, the star of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” or Milo Ventimiglia from NBC’s “This Is Us.” During the industry’s upfront market, however, many eyes move instead to the network ad-sales chiefs.These execs will be out in full force over the next several weeks, eager to keep the tens of billions of advertising dollars flowing into their companies’ corporate coffers.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobin Roberts worked from home for a good part of the pandemic while hosting America’s most-watched morning-news program. On Wednesday morning, she went back on the road.Roberts kicked off a new months-long effort, “Rise and Shine,” at ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which will have its anchors and correspondents visiting all 50 states over the next few months as the nation emerges from coronavirus conditions, according to Simone Swink and Chris Brouwer, the program’s two interim executive producers.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter devoting constant chatter to the 2020 election and the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News wants to make sure to talk about other subjects, including sports and weather.During an upfront presentation to ad buyers and clients Tuesday, executives from Fox News Media told Madison Avenue they intended to expand programming beyond the news of the day. Fox News hopes to sell commercial inventory in a range of new venues the company hopes will appeal to core viewers of the conservative news outlet while branching out from the politics that has been such a focus of the last four years.“We are in no way leaning back from politics.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSamantha Bee is getting ready to tackle one of modern culture’s most serious topics — with comedy.On Wednesday, her “Full Frontal” program on TBS will focus entirely on the challenges of gun violence in America. “Full Frontal Wants To Take Your Guns” will air Wed.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC started broadcasting “Saturday Night Live” live across the U.S in 2017.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen, the company that measures TV audiences every day says it still needs a few weeks to get its counting procedures back to normal.In a May 6 letter to TV networks, media-measurement giant Nielsen said it is still working to “resolve outstanding maintenance needs” in approximately 2700 homes that serve in its panel of consumers, and will likely not complete that work until the end of May. Nielsen has been under scrutiny for weeks by the big media companies who pay millions of dollars a year for its services after it acknowledged it had stopped sending field agents to homes during the coronavirus pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBig advertisers like General Motors and Target say they intend to pay more attention to Black-owned media outlets. Now Interpublic Group, one of the nation’s biggest advertising companies, intends to follow suit.Interpublic’s large Mediabrands media-buying unit said Friday it expected to spend “a minimum of 5%” of its clients’ ad budgets in Black-owned media by 2023, the latest in a series of efforts by big advertisers and Madison Avenue agencies to correct decades of disparity between what is spent in traditional mainstream media and what is allocated for media outlets owned by entrepreneurs from a variety of backgrounds.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAMC Networks said first quarter profit rose even as it navigated declines in revenue and operating income in the midst of a challenging environment.The New York owner of the AMC, IFC and Sundance cable networks said net income came to $87 million, or $2.02 per share, compared with $68.7 million, or $1.22 per share in the year-earlier period. Earnings came to $2.98 per share when debt and impairment charges are taken into consideration.Revenue fell 5.8% to $691.7 million, compared with $734.4 million in the year-earlier quarter.Like many other media companies, AMC Networks placed emphasis on its efforts to lure consumers who are migrating to streaming video.