AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND MONITORING DEVICES
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Jun 19, 2008
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Jan 31, 2007
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Dec 13, 2006
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Audience measurement systems having fixed and portable monitoring devices are provided. Embodiments of the audience measurement system may be suitable for monitoring programs viewed and/or listened to by one or more members of a sample household. The fixed monitoring device may be associated with a particular media device, for example, in the household's home and monitor a received broadcast signal and/or a state of the media device to extract information enabling a received program and/or station to be identified. The portable monitoring device may comprise a receiver for receiving sound of a program emitted by any nearby media device; a data extractor for extracting data from the received sound to enable a program and/or station to be identified. Either a first or a second communicator may be operable to transmit a device present signal in the vicinity of its respective monitoring device, and/or detect the said signal.
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