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Methodological research update

The paper summarizes the research and findings that contributed to the recent progress Nielsen Media Research has made in increasing the cooperation rate in the national people meter panel. The paper reports some of the research that aided in the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Barry Cook, Rachel Mueller-Lust

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Cultural and lifestyle influences on tv viewing

Out-of-home viewing has been documented in a number of studies. Much of this research has been conducted in the U.S., most recently in 1994. That study confirmed that there is a considerable amount of viewing in locations which are not measured by...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Gerhard Graf, Horst Stipp

June 15, 1996

Towards harmonization of international radio audience measurement

The paper describes work done to establish guidelines for the measurement of audiences to international radio broadcasters. Following a brief overview of the development of audience measurement services within international radio broadcasters, and a...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: Allen Cooper

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1996

Radio station competition and the population

U.S. radio stations compete among themselves in a pattern that differs somewhat from today’s population-proportionate survey samples. Some demographic groups are served by more stations than others, in ways that can’t be explained by...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: James D. Peacock, Thomas W. White

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Local market qualitative data

This paper presents a new approach to collecting qualitative information (consumer behaviour data) at the local market level, linked directly to media consumption. The STrategic Audience Research system, or STAR initiative for short, involves a...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Owen Charlebois, Mark Rousseau

June 15, 1996

Data base synergies

Most readily available industry data bases fail to answer the business questions which this paper addresses: How much might consumers spend on future media technologies and services? What qualitative information can differentiate one broadcast source...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Roberta M. McConochie, Tom White

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Tigers by the tail

We can expect to see Television audience measurement services expand to more and more developing countries in the near future. These markets are often characterised by widely varying levels of station coverage, television penetration and considerable...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Kenda Harris Rehayel, Philip Rich

June 15, 1996

Electronic media research in societies in transition

On a global scale, societies and the mass media are in transition. Is electronic media research keeping abreast with the challenges of these massive changes? At the present time South Africa probably offers a unique case study in change : Both the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Daan van Vuuren, Anina Maree

June 15, 1996

Measuring minority groups using mainstream surveys

This paper describes the ways in which the United Kingdom's radio audience research system (RAJAR) has been developed and modified since its beginnings in 1992 to improve representation of minorities. Primarily its coverage relates to the measurement...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Roger Gane, John Stockley

June 15, 1996