Nielsen/NetRatings Close Merger

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Nielsen and Internet marketing company NetRatings have completed their merger.

NEtRatings stock was delisted from the NASDAQ market after NetRAtings' stockholders approved the deal in a special meeting Friday.

NetRatings is now a private company wholly owned by Nielsen, which wa already teamed with the company under the Nielsen//NetRatings brand (http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/).

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.