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What happens to the audience when a program changes time?

Loyalty to television shows is a vexing and important issue. While a show may get about the same rating from one week to the next, studies have shown that only about forty percent of this week’s audience will go on to watch next week’s...

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

Authors: Peter J. Danaher, Troy Stanton

June 15, 1996

Measuring real time viewing as a modifying factor in the television industry the Chilean case

The development of the Chilean television industry in the past years runs parallel to two important phenomena: on the one hand, changes introduced in the TV regulatory framework made it possible to introduce cable television, and on the other a...

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

Authors: Elias Selman Carranza, Patricio Moyano Galdames

June 15, 1996

On the possibility of predicting ratings reliably

The paper reports on a secondary analysis of Australian People Meter data, using trend-series data analysis techniques. It places particular emphasis on deriving a neural network model of television audience estimates. The research program has been...

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

Author: Ian Garland

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Understanding pay TV markets in Africa

This paper gives a review of the development of pay TV markets in various African countries and Indian Ocean islands. It includes a brief overview of the state of the African economy, the television environment, and the qualitative research...

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

Author: Heather Kennedy

June 15, 1996

Zapp!

This paper describes an extensive research project concerning the leakage and influx of viewers during commercial breaks. The goal of this research project is to determine which factors bring about this kind of channel switching. The study covers the...

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

Author: Lex van Meurs

Company: GfK

June 15, 1996

The patterns of television coviewing behavior

People usually watch television with their family members and thus the context of family viewing needs to be thoroughly examined if we are to understand the family's use of television. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intricate nature...

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

Authors: Hae-Jin Shin, Jinho Kim

June 15, 1996

Measuring audience reaction in the UK

This paper deals with the measurement of audience reaction - what viewers think of the television programmes they watch - which is monitored on a continuous basis by broadcasters in the UK. The problems of translating appreciation into a simple score...

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

Authors: Richard Windle, Liz Landy

June 15, 1996

ITV ratings are not a commodity product

The historic perception that too much “wastage” is generated on TV and the recent increase in fragmentation of viewing, were beginning to have deleterious effects on UK television advertising and the major commercial channel, ITV, in...

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

Author: Susan Read

Company: Laser Marketing Research (Europe) Ltd.

June 15, 1996

Pay television

This paper presents an overview of Pay Television in Latin America, considering the different transmission modalities: cable, MMDS, DBS and DTK. It will be shown that Pay Television is quite under-developed in the continent, whereas broadcast...

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

Authors: Paulo Pinheiro de Andrade, Flávio Ferrari

Company: IBOPE Inteligencia

June 15, 1996