Owners of minority-oriented radio stations had asserted that Arbitron's estimates of their audience size dropped significantly when the new system, called portable people meters, were introduced in New York, Philadelphia and surrounding regions.
Including the space for nearly a thousand customers to stand in the yard around the stage, the small Rose had a total capacity of about 2,400 people, while contemporary estimates of total audience capacity at the Swan and the Globe claimed 3,000.
An estimated 81% of audiences during opening weekend of the first film were female, with 55% under age 25. .
PBS's own estimate of its audience was about 2.6 million, down from 3.7 million.
"My estimate of the audience for a bird's eye view of the top of the convention dome," Mr. Newman said, "is seven people".
I am going to estimate that 95percentt of audience members going into An Act of God believe it is a one-person show starring Jim Parsons as God.
Estimates of Al Jazeera's audience range from 30 million to 50 million, putting it well ahead of its competitors.
But the difference in the estimates of Yahoo's audience, 26 million users, far exceeds the total American dormitory population.
Nielsen's estimates of the total audience for the president's farewell address were not available on Friday.
It does not help that Nielsen and ComScore are vastly different in their estimates of most sites' audiences.
