Data geeks set to rejoice at extra rigour in TV audience reporting. B&T dreads the spreadsheets.

Foxtel announced last week it's set to depart from the only thing the broadcasters seemed to ever agree on - OzTAM.

OzTAM names Karen Halligan as its new CEO. Declares she won't be drawn on the great Sunrise versus Today debate.

VOZ may have suffered more false starts than Taylor Swift's love life, but it's up and firing now.

OzTAM and the Foxtel Group have announced that Kayo viewing is now reported in OzTAM’s Video Player Measurement (VPM) ...

If anyone deserves a high rating TV show based on their lives it has to be outgoing OzTAM boss Doug Peiffer.

OzTam made a mistake, but Lara Bingle made mistakes & bagged Sam Worthington! So, we have full faith Oztam will fix it.

B&T's overnight TV ratings report is like Shakespeare as retold to That's Life magazine while drinking heavily.

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Mark Buckman named independent chair of OzTAM. Yet to reveal his favourite for this year's Bachelorette.

Yes, this headline is a little esoteric. So, read on or look-up esoteric in the dictionary to see if it's suitable.

It's rare that listing "TV addiction" as a hobby on your resume bears fruit. Not so when applying to OzTAM's vacancies.

The much vaunted VOZ has arrived! Well, the ad campaign for the pending arrival of the much vaunted VOZ has.

Much like a vampire or Grant Denyer's career, this PwC report fiasco simply can't be killed off, can it?

OzTAM staff thankful they no longer have to worry pronouncing his name wrong following Padraig O'Donovan's departure.

OzTAM has a new thing it's calling VOZ, while B&T understands both the VOZINATOR or Sheryl were not considered as names.

OzTAM has appointed Adrian Bogdan Vasile, whose name can only be bettered by using a mysterious Eastern European accent.

OzTAM is hitting play on Total TV, as B&T is hitting stop on this week. Sadly, the week has not stopped playing.

His workforce may be in a state of revolt, but these footy numbers should enable Tim Worner a satisfying chin stroke.

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Nothing highlights our busy lifestyles quite like prescription addiction. Oh, and this survey into TV streaming, too.

Richard Herring adds yet another chair position to his resume & confirms his fondness for boardroom finger sandwiches.

Some 1.2 billion minutes of catch-up TV? When you all end up with square eyes, don't come complain to us, is all we say.

When the boss wants numbers for live streams do you pretend you can't speak English? Well, you'll say "謝謝'" to this.

Why is OzTAM adding a shopping demographic to TV ratings database? It's best we let them explain, as they've done here.

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Farmer Wants A Wife does make the country life seductive. Apart from the manure stench & the bleating roosters at 5am.

Aussie viewers can be a harsh lot at times. Only days after Ellie Cole bled her heart out, she has been sent packing.

Paramount's global sales boss gives local sales ops the thumbs up. Didn't weigh-in on the Lisa Wilkinson debacle.

A sad day for the pastry industry as Foxtel's Mark Frain says you'll never catch him selling donuts.

TV ordered to go to group therapy after being outed at the most dysfunctional of all mediums.

What could be better than watching people make banal comments on TV than making banal jokes about those people?

Shelf life for MAFS TV show significantly longer than shelf life of MAFS couples.

MFA touts bigger venues for EX conference. Hopefully there's a corresponding increase in the number of loos.

Foxtel boss donning tin helmet and putting on the waders and as he dives into the measurement debate.

B&T wonders whether Nine will lure divorcees in for a Married At Second Sight spin-off.

The time TV was this controversial was when Elvis made his hip-wiggling debut.

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An iffy stench remains over the new VOZ numbers. Kind of like off milk but less likely to make you throw-up.

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