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Diary and telephone-based measurement of the network radio audience in the United States

The conversion of the RADAR network audience measurement service from a telephone to a diary-based survey provides an opportunity to study differences in the results from the two collection methodologies.This paper examines the differences observed...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Thomas C.N. Evans, David Lapovsky

Company: Nielsen

June 16, 2003

Measuring formats

After detailed testing, Radiocontrol has been the official measuring system for radio consumption in Switzerland since 1 January 2001. In the meantime two years have passed - time enough for the client radio stations to run their first analysis and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Manuel Daehler, Rolf Müller

June 16, 2003

RAEL

The Radio Advertising Effectiveness Laboratory (RAEL) was created in 2001 to research the effectiveness of radio advertising in the United States. Established as an independent non-profit organization with funding from radio industry companies, RAEL...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Branch Watkins, James D. Peacock, Kaki Hinton

June 16, 2003

21st century measurement of 21st century media

Arbitron's Portable People Meters (PPM) capture considerably more granularity of consumer listening behavior than the diary method, according to recent PPM results from Philadelphia. Though both methods yield similar overall quarter-hours, PPM picks...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Roberta M. McConochie, Bruce Goerlich, Scott Stinnett

Company: Nielsen

June 16, 2003

Does recall-based audience measurement truly represent the audiences of speech stations?

The subject of this paper is the launch of the first-ever national survey using electronic measurement of radio audiences in the United Kingdom. Throughout the world, the research community is discussing the impact of electronic measurement on the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Bill Ridley, Kelvin MacKenzie

June 16, 2003

Radio: Ready to rumble

This paper briefly reviews some of the research upon which most radio planning models are based and considers the relative impact of position in break and 'low clutter airtime' against the more traditional territory surrounding frequency within the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Howard Parry-Husbands, Alan Bowman

June 16, 2003

A full year of audience research with PPM

The large-scale evaluation of the portable people meter (PPM), consisting of a panel of 1,500 consumers age 6+ equipped with portable meters in Philadelphia, has passed the one-year mark. It is now clear that media outlets will encode their signals...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Robert H. Patchen, Beth Webb

Company: Nielsen

June 16, 2003

Measuring brand equity of radio stations in order to predict future listening behaviour

Taylor Nelson Sofres has an in-house tool, the 'Conversion Model', which allows prediction of the evolution of radio audience in the case of future competition. Applied in Belgium to the Dutch radio market for the benefit of the 'VRT' group, the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Daniël Poesmans, Dominique Vancraeynest

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 16, 2003

Programming and marketing in a PPM world

This paper strives to gain a clearer understanding of the future impact that electronic audience measurement would have for radio programming. It was clear from earlier overviews that the current approach and thinking applied to programming radio...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Author: David Rogerson

June 16, 2003