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The question of quality

This paper looks at the current debate in the UK about the role of 'quality' in television broadcasting, starting from an examination of the ways in which the concept of quality has been used by politicians and critics. Data from qualitative and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Authors: Michael Svennevig, David E. Morrison

June 15, 1990

Qualitative aspects of quantitative decisions

Going beyond "nose-counts", which was the predominant; mode of assigning numerical "values” to TV programmes until how, "values" serving as corner-stones of decisions with much wider repercussions, we rather have to search beyond numbers, for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Author: Emmanuel Heretakis

June 15, 1990

Theoretical and practical difficulties encountered in setting up a European data bank in the field of telecommunications

The European Commission asked the European Consultancy Organisation (ETCO) in 1986 to evaluate future demand for broadband telecommunications in order to be able to provide the requisite types of carrier services and infrastructures. The two...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Authors: Chantal Le Bras, Jerome Hervio

June 15, 1988

The Dutch public broadcasting services in a multi-channel landscape

The subject of this paper is the position of the Netherlands public television on the rapidly developing market of programme suppliers. Questions in this connection are: is public broadcasting being threatened by (commercial) foreign competition? Can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Author: Wim Bekkers

June 15, 1987

The effectiveness of television advertising

The present paper presents findings and a status report regarding one of these projects. Namely, a study of the influence of West German commercial televisions. First, it is analysed what brands and products are advertised, which are available in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Authors: Flemming Hansen, Lars Grønholdt

June 15, 1987

The development of broadcasting research in a changing environment

We take great pleasure in attending this ESOMAR seminar, which gives us the opportunity of bringing to Arab Countries the experience gained by RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) in facing up to the rapid and tumultuous development undergone by...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Tito Riccio, Piero Zucchelli

June 15, 1987

The market for audience research

To the outside observer, audience research appears essentially as the production of a set of 'objective' results on audience size, reactions or attitudes. It is tempting to feel that, because such results are often provided in the context of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Authors: François R. Delauzun, Colin M. Wilding

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1987

Meter-panel-data analysis and its influence on programme schedules

On April 1st 1986 the broadcasting corporation in Hessen the "Hessischer Rundfunk, HR" has changed its programme schedules for the 1st and 3rd programme, It will be shown which reasons have led to this change and the role of tv-audience research. By...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Author: Joachim Wiedemann

June 15, 1987

The role of broadcasting research in the development of the BBC’s daytime television service

The paper describes the role of the Broadcasting Research Department in the development of the BBC's daytime television service. The research comprised a series of studies, involving reanalysis of existing data about the actual and potential audience...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Authors: Robin McCron, Roger Laughton, Karen Day, Julia Lamalson

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1987