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National hispanic people meter sample

The paper describes and discusses the sample design to measure television viewing among the Hispanic population in the U.S. using a peoplemeter. The sample design is a two phase sample. The first phase sample is a sample of U.S. households in which...

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

Author: Edward A. Schillmoeller

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

Television reach and frequency in the United States

The purpose of this paper is to provide a practitioner’s view of how TV reach and frequency estimates are developed in the United States of America. The paper is in four parts. The first part discusses the importance of reach and frequency as...

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

Author: Bruce Goerlich

May 1, 1994

The audience for digital interactive television

The paper begins by examining the rhetoric of current commentary about the "information superhighway". Though that commentary has become somewhat polarized between optimists and pessimists, their respective arguments are impossible to mediate without...

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

Author: Scott C. Mcdonald

May 1, 1994

Unobtrusive measures of television audiences during commercial breaks: Peoplemeter second by second ratings

In this research we recalibrated the peoplemeter in the AGB McNair New Zealand Peoplemeter Panel to produce second by second ratings, instead of the usual one minute ratings. We looked at audience ebb and flow during programmes, and, in particular,...

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

Authors: Peter J. Danaher, Terence W. Beed

May 1, 1994

A series of success? Modelling and predicting the success of a TV programme series

This paper will describe the work that has been carried out in support of a modelling approach aimed at predicting the overall performance of a TV programme series based on the audience data for the first transmission(s) of that series. It is well...

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

Authors: David Brennan, Jeremy Wyndham

May 1, 1994

Advertiser feedback

Not only must we evaluate the national mass appeal channels, but local market channels and potentially the hundreds of special appeal channels. We also, I suggest, need to change our perspective from evaluation of the transmission carrier to the...

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

Author: Roger E. Godbeer

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

May 1, 1994

How to double your audience

In Canada a combination of factors both stimulate and impede audience research. The complex Canadian broadcasting system and the competition among research suppliers create a situation in which innovative research solutions are frequently proposed...

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

Author: Barry Kiefl

May 1, 1994

Interactive TV

New communications technologies are promising an array of new interactive services that will be available in the near future to consumers. In assessing the market for interactive television, our research focused on these objectives: 1. What is the...

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

Author: Marjorie Michitti

May 1, 1994

Rating the ratings

Peoplemeter panels have been the principal tool for measuring TV audience behaviour for about ten years now, yet there is no universal agreement on the right way of running such a panel. Although bodies such as EAAA and EBU have started to explore...

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

Author: Trevor Sharot

May 1, 1994