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Nielsen Shares Jump As It Accepts Takeover At 60% Premium

An Elliott Management Corp and Brookfield Asset Management Inc (NYSE:BAM) led consortium agreed to acquire Nielsen Holdings PLC (NYSE:NLSN) for $28 a share. The all-cash transaction valued Nielsen at $16 billion, including debt. The offer price implied a 60% premium over Nielsen's unaffected stock price as of March 11, before market speculation regarding a potential…

Benzinga

Bid for Nielsen TV ratings company almost doubles to $16B

Brookfield Business Partners is boosting its buyout offer for Nielsen Holdings to about $16 billion after the TV ratings and marketing data company rejected a $9 billion takeover bid

The Independent UK

Oscars viewership up more than 50% over last year, report says

The Oscars wanted more viewers and, boy, did they get them.

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Oscars ratings jump 56% from last year's record low

The figure still marks the second-smallest Oscars audience in history.

Axios

Oscars TV Ratings Up Significantly From Last Year, But Still Far From Peak

Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast on ABC, a unit of the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), attracted 15.4 million viewers and a 3.2 rating with adults ages 18 to 49, according to data released Monday afternoon by Nielsen.

Benzinga

Oscars audience exceeds 15 million, exceeding last year

The television audience for the Academy Awards appears to be up from last year's record low, but is still not at the level that the annual awards show is accustomed to

The Independent UK

Two St. Peter's NCAA games land in Nielsen's top 20

Here's a pretty safe bet: last week was the first time ever that two St. Peter's University men's basketball games landed among the Nielsen company's top 20 shows

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Merger Arbitrage Mondays - Anaplan To Be Acquired By Thoma Bravo For $10.7 Billion

We see a lot of chatter about potential deals every week and while most of these deals don't come to fruition, a surprisingly large number do. We analyzed 200 potential deals in our "deals in the works" (DITW) database in December 2018 and updated our analysis in October 2021 after…

Benzinga

Nielsen ratings rejects $9B takeover bid and shares slide

Nielsen is down 16% after the TV ratings company rejected a $9 billion takeover bid from private equity firms

The Independent UK

Bill Murray comedy from 2014 provides surprise challenge to Encanto in battle to top streaming charts

‘St Vincent’ rose shockingly high in the streaming charts – but still fell short of Encanto’s huge ratings

The Independent UK

Byron Allen sues Nielsen, claiming it misrepresented its ratings service

Media mogul Byron Allen is suing Nielsen, claiming the ratings company was not forthcoming about the reliability of its audience measurement data for smaller TV networks.

Los Angeles Times

Why Nielsen Holdings Shares Are Surging

Nielsen Holdings PLC (NYSE: NLSN) shares are surging Monday following a Wall Street Journal report indicating a consortium of private-equity firm

Benzinga

Biden's State of the Union speech draws 38 million viewers

An estimated 38.2 million TV viewers watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address

The Independent UK

President Biden’s State of the Union address tops 37 million TV viewers

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday was watched by more than 37 million TV viewers, according to Nielsen data, higher than his speech to Congress last year.

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Two-thirds of U.S. watched Super Bowl

Nielsen reported the total audience on NBC, Telemundo, Peacock and NFL digital platforms averaged 112.3 million viewers. However, the audience swells to 208 million-plus when trying to take into account people watching the game in groups or out of the home.

Benzinga

'Ozark' Joins Rare Company With 4 Billion Minutes Streamed In A Week As Netflix Continues To Dominate

A Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) original show continues to dominate the streaming ratings and hit a milestone hit only three times.

The Independent UK

Nielsen company's list of top 20 prime-time programs

The Nielsen company estimates that 99.18 million people watched the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl on NBC

Sports Illustrated

Nielsen Releases Super Bowl TV Ratings After Rams-Bengals Classic

A close game and a well-received halftime show led to an uptick in viewership from a year ago.

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Axios

Super Bowl ratings rebound from 2021

The game was watched by 112.3 million viewers across all of NBC's platforms.

The Independent UK

Super Bowl has 101.1 million TV viewers, up from 2021

The Nielsen company estimates that 101.1 million people watched the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl on NBC and Telemundo

Newsroom.co.nz

The best-selling books at Waitangi weekend

This week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

The Independent UK

Bills-Chiefs is most-watched TV program since Super Bowl

The NFL's epic playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs was the most-watched event on television since the last Super Bowl

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