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Measuring what is being watched

The last ten years have seen the widespread introduction of Peoplemeters as the standard method of measurement of TV audiences through large parts of the world. This process is continuing; Peoplemeters are now appearing in the countries of Eastern...

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

Authors: Michael A. Kirkham, Peter Wilcox

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

May 1, 1994

The seductiveness and reality of new technologies for the next generation of electronic media

As communication technologies hurtle down the information highway, audience researchers increasingly adopt technology-based measurement. The lure of technology solutions seduces us from traditional paper diaries, from household tuning meters, from...

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

Authors: Ronald S. Kolessar, Roberta M. McConochie

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

The USS6 billion question: What will viewers view in 2001?

This paper takes as its starting point the profusion of channel choices that are being bandied about in the media, and asks whether there will be any real change in the way that viewers view in the next few years. Beyond the seven year marker, there...

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

Author: John Kaye

May 1, 1994

The multimedia wearable passive meter

Originally, it was thought that the need for a wearable passive meter was mostly to improve the current response rates of Nielsen and Arbitron audiences. However, even if there were no need to improve upon the current response rates of Peoplemeters...

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

Author: Lee Weinblatt

May 1, 1994

Quality methods, quality results!

For over thirty years, the U.S. Committee on Nationwide Television Audience Measurement (CONTAM) has engaged in methodological research. Its purpose has been to understand and improve television audience measurement, in order to increase the...

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

Author: Nicholas P. Schiavone

May 1, 1994

Who is watching?

The world of TV is changing everywhere, majorly influenced by the advent of satelltites. This change increases competition between TV stations and as such has a major impact on TV audience measurement. Because of the increasing number of stations,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Author: Thomas Neumann

January 1, 1994

The application of rule induction and neural networks for television audience prediction

Rule induction and neural networks have been applied to audience data to produce promising results for understanding and predicting audience behaviour. Potential deployment designs suggest that this will be a fruitful way to assist the task of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC/AFM Symposium 1993: Information Based Decision Making In Marketing

Authors: Mike Fitzsimons, Tom Khabaza, Colin Shearer

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1993

The needs of the advertisers from media research

The media situation all over the world has been changing over the last few years. Change is especially dramatic in Central and Eastern Europe. One of the new developments is the need for media research in order to provide a basis for negotiations...

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

Author: Thomas Neumann

Company: Procter & Gamble

June 15, 1993

The Family Circle study of schedule impact

In 1991 The New York Times Company Women's Magazines released the Family Circle Study of Print Advertising Effectiveness. This was the first fruit of a joint effort begun two years earlier with Citicorp's POS Information Services Division, which had...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Rebecca M. McPheters

June 15, 1993