But does the scrutiny now being given to audience levels mean that a show like Larry David's madly idiosyncratic comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which won raves in the press but not many viewers on HBO last season, is now under ratings pressure as it prepares for a second season?
"The View" has been under ratings pressure and there have been rumblings that producers want to shake up the panel soon.
As The Times reported last week, the cast shake-ups may come from pressure by producers to make changes to the show as it comes under ratings pressure.
Equally, it might show that some universities may perhaps not understand their true place in the student market - either over-rating or under-rating themselves and may benefit from a rethink about what they expect applicants to achieve.
A. O. SCOTT I don't think I've ever had a full 180-degree reversal of opinion about a movie, but from time to time I've been conscious, in retrospect, of getting the nuance or emphasis wrong, of over- or under-rating a film or not expressing my sense of it as clearly as I should have.
Since the predicted values are based on the survival observed in previous periods, those will as a consequence from the above probably be conservative survival estimates (under-rating).
According to the tour's "career under-pressure ratings" — a statistic that combines the percentages of break points converted, break points saved, tiebreaks won, and deciding sets won (the third set for best-of-three matches and the fifth set for best-of-five) — Nishikori ranks fourth all-time, behind Djokovic, Pete Sampras, and Nadal.
The remainder of the CLO assets, per the requirements of the Indenture, must either bear a credit estimate or hold a rating as defined under the ratings section of the indenture.
She wondered if some colleges would be penalized under a ratings system that did not take into account the modest salaries of graduates entering public service, religious ministries or careers in the arts.
The new management layer comes at a time when NBC News is under intense ratings pressure on several fronts, most notably in the mornings, where the "Today" show is being challenged on a daily basis by ABC's "Good Morning America".
There, officials predicted that by the end of the 2016-17 school year, at least 90% of teachers and principals will be "highly effective" or "effective" under its ratings.
