TV by the Numbers was a website devoted to collecting and analyzing
television ratings data in the United States. It was a part of Nexstar
Media Group's Zap2it television news/listings site.An Internet and
statistical analyst, Robert Seidman had previously worked for IBM and
Charles Schwab, and published an online newsletter about the Internet
and AOL before founding TV by the Numbers; Bill Gorman had been an AOL
executive until 1998, and had read Seidman's column. Friends since the
early 1990s when they met near Washington, D.C., both were fond of
television, as Gorman loved numbers and Seidman enjoyed statistics
relating to it; the subject of television ratings data entered into
one of their conversations. Gorman was dismayed at being unable to
find other blogs devoted solely to television data, and after a Google
search confirmed this, he and Seidman thought of the idea for a
website devoted solely to the subject. In Gorman's words, while there
were sites devoted to disseminating certain subjects, "there was no
site that did the same thing for the television industry. That is,
compile the numbers in a way, and analyze them in a way, that
consumers would understand". Gorman elaborated in a 2010 interview:On
June 30, 2009, in response to pressure from Nielsen Media Research, TV
by the Numbers made large changes to their archives. The main ratings
archives no longer go past 2 weeks prior to the date a reader accesses
them.On November 10, 2010, TV by the Numbers announced that they were
partnering with TV news website Zap2it. As a result, the website's URL
changed to a subdomain of the zap2it.com domain. In addition, Zap2it
features such as TV listings began to appear on the site. TV by the Numbers Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter