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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

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

What kind of audience research will be required in future?

This paper begins with a very brief summary of new developments in the television medium and their effect on the likely stracture of the television market going into the next century from the perspective of the viewer and the advertising industry. We...

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

Authors: Robert Hulks, Gilles Santini

May 1, 1994

Mothers and children

The extent and importance of children's opinion leading power is a phenomenon which concerns advertisers confronted with an advertising message for products consumed by children. Indeed, in this case one not only has to attract the children but also...

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

Authors: Frederique Micouleau, Patrick Ballarin

May 1, 1994

Radio and TV audiences in the 90's

Looking at the future, it is clear that it is truism to state that the electronic media of the 90s differs greatly from that of the 80s. Satellite technology, digital compression and the expanding cable network (particularly with fibre glass cable)...

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

Author: Matthias Steinmann

May 1, 1994

TV audience measurement around the world

There is increasing interest in the "Digital Superhighway”. How will TV audience measurement cope with this radical change in the medium? Many believe that the fast approaching fractionated and mobile television environment will necessitate a...

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

Authors: Bill Harvey, Ken Purdye

May 1, 1994

What peoplemeters can measure

Peoplemeters are conventionally described as measuring minute by minute audiences viewing television transmissions. This raises issues of the meaning of “viewing”, the definition of a minute audience and what kind of audiences are to be...

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

Author: Tony Twyman

May 1, 1994

Programme involvement

The BARB audience measurement system has the reputation of being the most sophisticated in the world. But because of its methodologies and its quantitative nature the advertising industry has, to a greater or lesser extent, been forced into making a...

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

Authors: Doug Read, Sheila Byfield

Company: Ogilvy

May 1, 1994

New research on the out-of-home audience in the United States and Europe

During the fall of 1992 the Network Television Association (NTA)  an organization that was created by the three major U.S. television networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to promote awareness of the networks and serve as a research resource --...

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

Authors: Julian Pounds, Horst Stipp

May 1, 1994