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Exploding the myth of the middle-aged market

In the last few years, the natural evolution of the post World War II "Baby Boom" generation has accounted for the explosion of the 25-54 and 35-64 key media age buying groups in the United States. This significant shifting of the "epicenter" of mass...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Thomas F. Delaney

May 1, 1994

Measuring the effectiveness of twin commercials as a way of standing out amidst the clutter

Twin Commercials are rapidly becoming popular in the Netherlands as a way of coping with clutter. A theoretical framework justifying the use of Twin Commercials hardly exists. What is really needed is research into the effect of repetition within...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: John H. Faasse

May 1, 1994

Phasing in a new rating methodology

In February 1992 Nielsen Media Research announced a change in the existing People Meter methodology: specialists (called People Meter Representatives, or PMRs) were to be added to the field force to provide intensified training in the use of the...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Barry Cook

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

Who is really watching the commercials?

TV research does not measure peoples' actual contact with advertisements but rather the "opportunity to see" commercials. This paper addresses this issue and looks at various factors which may affect the chances of an opportunity actually being...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Phil Gullen

May 1, 1994

Programme environment and radio audience dynamics

For many years, television has had instruments of audiometric measurement at its disposal. These measurements are instantaneous, precise and specific (programme by programme). Fixed panels (same people interviewed on an eight week basis) are able to...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Abbas Bendali

May 1, 1994

Prospects for measuring children's radio listening in the U.S. using the seven-day personal diary method

In the fall of 1993 Arbitron conducted a special diary pilot study to measure radio listening among children 02-Nov and the adults in their households. Jointly sponsored by Arbitron and the Children's Satellite Network (CSN), the study included a...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Bonnie B. Burgess, Marla D. Cralley, Robert H. Patchen

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

A new method for forecasting television programme audiences and schedule reach and frequency

In the changing audience behaviour situation, and when commercial television in Finland was moving over to a channel of its own, it was necessary to create a system, better than the mathematic models, that could forecast coming audience behaviour...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Marianne Makela, Jean Haukatsalo

Company: Viacom International Media Networks

May 1, 1994

Media moments

The present monograph on "media moments" objectively confirms that media contact depends in part on life-stvle. Preferred media moments with the press, television and radio are arranged differently according to the days of the week and how the...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Hugues Chavenon, Michel Lejeune

May 1, 1994

Harmonization of television ratings

There are currently 21 peoplemeter panels operating in 18 countries in Europe. At a European industry level, a great deal of work has been done on the subject of harmonization of television research. The new comprehensive survey from EAAA was...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Kerry Jonas, Steve Wilcox

May 1, 1994