Senator Franken hopes that would root out conflicts of interest and prevent rating agencies from competing for clients by offering higher ratings than the securities deserve.
It became the highest-rated cable program of the day, obtaining significantly higher ratings than Hell on Wheels on AMC and the Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo.
Although Nigel Farage's rating has slipped in the past few weeks, he still enjoys higher ratings than David Cameron, Ed Miliband or Nick Clegg.
Two weeks ago, the show's highest-rated episode reached almost eight million viewers on Tuesday night, and scored higher ratings than did all but two programs in all TV among the young adult viewers most sought by TV advertisers.
(Another Flurry observation: most apps in the App Store are rated, overall, three out of five stars, with paid apps garnering slightly higher ratings than free apps).
They also gave higher ratings than control-group families for care and information received.
A lot, apparently — "The Walking Dead" gets higher ratings than any other series on cable.
He added, "Believe me, I can get higher ratings than by going to a black screen".
In New York, the Univision affiliates now draw higher ratings than some English-language stations.
They were all more likely to give higher ratings than Fitch and Moody's.
For many years, Mr. Steele had higher ratings than any other local broadcast in the United States.
