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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

Effective quality

The BBC World Service has been developing a series of performance indicators which permit its activities to be assessed, particularly in comparison with its major competitors in the international radio broadcasting arena. Some of these address...

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

Authors: Allen Cooper, Graham Mytton, Peter Stratton

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

May 1, 1994

Participants say the darndest things

Media researchers often focus on the need for precise methodological conclusions from large-scale experimental research. In Arbitron's experience, however, many innovations have their roots in a very simple exercise—listening to comments by...

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

Authors: Thomas W. White, James D. Peacock

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

Marketing for public radio in competition

The paper consists of two parts. The first one describes the quantitative use of radio on the basis of representative surveys in Germany. According to topical data radio listening in the eastern part of the country is significantly higher than in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Marketing Integration Of West And East Europe

Author: Josef Eckhardt

June 15, 1993

Effectiveness of radio advertising

The effectiveness of an advertising message depends as much on its intrinsic virtues - especially the creative work behind it - , as it does on the context in which it appears. This is why in the print media, the impact of an advertisement can drop...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Media Research Meets The Future

Author: François Laurent

June 15, 1992

Radio reach and frequency revisited after 25 years: Do quintile probabilities still produce accurate estimates?

Reach and Frequency Models have been actively utilized in the United States for the planning and buying of radio announcements since the 1968 introduction of "Radio’s New Math." Curves built in the late 60's allow users of the medium to predict...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: William E. Engel

June 15, 1992

A new approach to the measure of children radio audience (9 to 14 years old)

In France, radio audience measurement for people 15 years old or more is pre-eminently carried out using Mediametrie's 75000 Survey, whose methodology is generally known and accepted. Mediametrie is both attentive to its market and eager to see...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Fabrice Carlier

Company: Mediametrie

June 15, 1992

Radio advertising expenditure

This paper presents a comparison of the radio landscape and radio advertising in European countries. The commercial radio landscape in Europe varies considerably from country to country, ranging from Sweden where there is no commercial radio to Italy...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Flemming Hansen, Lars Grønholdt

June 15, 1992