About

Bill Gorman and Robert Seidman have known each other for 13 years. Back in 1994, Seidman was publishing an online newsletter about the Internet and that almost always included AOL. Gorman, who worked for AOL until 1998 read it. They have been having spirited debates ever since.

First meeting when they both lived in the Virginia burbs of Washington, D.C., serendipity landed them 6 blocks apart in San Francisco where they’ve lunched regularly ever since. At one lunch Seidman expressed his dismay at the lack of web resources that focused on data for the television industry. Gorman went home and validated this via Google searching and TV by the Numbers was born.

Gorman is enthusiastic about television and very passionate about numbers and statistics and Seidman is obsessed with both television and statistics.

TVbytheNumbers’ priorities are:

• Provide an online warehouse of useful data about the television industry
• Provide thoughtful and timely analysis on the data, news, and issues that drive the industry
• Make the data easier to understand and absorb both through analysis and charting techniques
• Prognosticate on the future
• Be a favorite destination of those interested or involved in the data that drives the industry

Gorman and Seidman acknowledge that they’re still total newbies, but with your help, they hope to learn quickly.

Our Publishing schedule is entirely at the whim of our various data providers. If they are late, we are late.

That given, we should be able to hold to the following schedule for our regular features.

Our Publishing Schedule 

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