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Where do those star ratings for movies in TV listings come from?

  • Where do those star ratings for movies in TV listings come from? A lot of TV listings websites, channels, and menus have a 4-star ratings scale attached to movie listings. Where do these ratings come from and who decides how many stars are assigned to a movie? The movie and TV show synopses are also identical for multiple TV listing services, so they must all be sourced from the same listings vendor.

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14291-2005Feb10.html: "The star ratings are from Tribune Media Services, which provides the programming listings to many TV books across the country. TMS uses reviews from several sources - including Variety, Roger Ebert, Leonard Maltin and Videohound - to determine its star ratings. "

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Tribune Media Services is the big name in program guide data in the United States. They offer data for http://www.tribunemediaservices.com/product-and-services/movies/data/ and http://www.tribunemediaservices.com/product-and-services/television/data/, and the movies include star ratings. Where they get the star ratings from, who knows? Probably some kind of average calculated from their own critics' ratings.

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