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American public television in the 500 channel environment: A discussion of current research

Everyday, it seems, we hear new prognostications about what the information super highway, the 500 channel environment and interactive digital compressed optical fiber portend for the future of broadcasting. American Public Television went through a...

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

Authors: David J. Leroy, Barbara I. Gordon, Patricia A. Harris

May 1, 1994

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

Who is really watching the commercials?

TV research does not measure peoples' actual contact with advertisements but rather the "opportunity to see" commercials. This paper addresses this issue and looks at various factors which may affect the chances of an opportunity actually being...

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

Author: Phil Gullen

May 1, 1994

A new method for forecasting television programme audiences and schedule reach and frequency

In the changing audience behaviour situation, and when commercial television in Finland was moving over to a channel of its own, it was necessary to create a system, better than the mathematic models, that could forecast coming audience behaviour...

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

Authors: Marianne Makela, Jean Haukatsalo

Company: Viacom International Media Networks

May 1, 1994

Harmonization of television ratings

There are currently 21 peoplemeter panels operating in 18 countries in Europe. At a European industry level, a great deal of work has been done on the subject of harmonization of television research. The new comprehensive survey from EAAA was...

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

Authors: Kerry Jonas, Steve Wilcox

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

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

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