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The first year of a nationwide push-button meter, TV audience measurement system in Portugal

Ecotel Portugal had its first TV audience results available by March 1991. The experience with a nationwide meter system in Portugal is thus limited to about one year. Taking this fact into consideration and after an introduction, this paper starts...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Media Research Meets The Future

Authors: Antonio Valente, Paula C. Mateus, Ana Marquilhas

June 15, 1992

Motivating the active-meter panelist

With active meter panels such as Arbitron’s ScanAmerica® service, what contact with panelists is appropriate? Phenomenological psychology, which emphasizes understanding experience as well as behavior, suggests principles of panelist contact....

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Roberta M. McConochie, James D. Peacock

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1992

Identifying the difference in usage and buying behaviour of consumer durables in Europe

The following paper is divide in 3 main sections:1) Description of the European Consumer Durables Survey of EUROPANEL.2) The European diversity of the consumer durables market as reflected by consumer audits.3) Understanding Consumer dynamics using a...

Catalogue: Papers 1992: How To Endure In The Durables Industry?

Authors: Roger Wyss, Yves Marbeau

June 15, 1992

Measures of quality in Canadian broadcasting

The paper reviews the state of audience measures of quality in Canada in relation to developments in other countries. The general problems associated with qualitative measures of quality are considered in light of a specific example of family drama...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Philip Savage

June 15, 1992

How can we stock and retrieve meter panel aggregated data?

In view of the enormous mass of data coming from a TV meter measurement study, the user has to find an answer to the way of working more efficiently in the shortest possible time. The rapid development of informatics technics has revolutionised the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: The Expansion of Broadcast Media

Author: J. I. Butiná

June 15, 1991

Marketing and research today (February 1991)

At the ESOMAR Congress in Monte Carlo the paper 'Developing a rounder tea' won the Award for thebest paper on New Product Development. The paper gives an unusually clearinsight into the way in which an aesthetic benefit can add to the...

Catalogue: Marketing and Research Today

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

February 1, 1991

The accuracy and precision of consumer diary panel information

The Du Pont Company is one of the world's largest producers of Textile Fibers for Apparel End Uses. Major products include nylon, DACRON® polyester, ORLON® acrylic, and LYCRA® spandex. Its Textile Fibers are manufactured and marketed around...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Author: John B. Frey

September 1, 1990

High tech single source panels for media research

'High-tech' Single Source, or electronic panels, are now a factor in both North America and Europe. Currently, however, these panels are restricted to monitoring certain behaviour - most typically television viewing and purchase of bar-coded...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Author: James P. King

June 15, 1990

TV audience measurement validation

Beginning in 1981 a new facility became available in France : the household audience meter coupled with the Audimat panel system. Each day the viewing figures for the previous 24 hours were made available, precise to the second. And because these...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Authors: Dominique Scaglia, Jacques Braun

Company: Mediametrie

June 15, 1990