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One day aided recall, or a few days without aids

Ireland has a 35 year history of measuring radio audience levels using the one-day aided recall method. The establishment of 20+ new local independent stations in Ireland in 1990 provided an ideal opportunity to review all radio audience measurement...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Aine O'Donoghue

July 1, 1995

Piloting a "PPD" in the UK

This paper describes the audience measurement problem confronted in the United Kingdom as the number of radio stations available has increased. The conventional diary system - in which stations are pre-listed - is no longer able to cope in some...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Authors: Roger Gane, John Stockley

July 1, 1995

Sample size

Every researcher is asked the question: how big should the sample be? And every researcher has the same standard buck-passing answer: it depends on how accurately you want to measure what you measure. But given the amount of money that is traded on...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Ken Purdye

July 1, 1995

Radio research in Belgium

After a brief outline of the development of the medium radio in Belgium, and a concise summary of the radio supply in Flanders, we examine the topic of radio research. In Belgium, two studies, each employing a different method, measure listening...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Authors: Bruno Knaeps, Dominique Zaczek, Daniël Poesmans

July 1, 1995

Audience reaction as a tool for planning

This paper describes the Radio Opinion Monitor (ROM) which is used by the BBC to monitor audience reaction to network radio in the UK. The BBC has measured audience reaction to its services for many years and ROM is a new vehicle which has been...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Door-To-Door To Satellite

Authors: Tony Wearn, Richard Windle

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1994

Diary

To propose a text on radio research during this ESOMAR Symposium on Electronic and Broadcast Audience Research is perhaps a way to try to show off but if it is it is also more than that. Radio as a medium is gaining back the importance it lost to...

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

Author: Herman Santy

May 1, 1994

Prospects for measuring children's radio listening in the U.S. using the seven-day personal diary method

In the fall of 1993 Arbitron conducted a special diary pilot study to measure radio listening among children 02-Nov and the adults in their households. Jointly sponsored by Arbitron and the Children's Satellite Network (CSN), the study included a...

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

Authors: Bonnie B. Burgess, Marla D. Cralley, Robert H. Patchen

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

DBS channels in Japan

According to the results of Nationwide-Ratings-Survey conducted by NHK in November 1993,19.4% of Japanese households could receive DBS -channels. When NHK began its regular 24 hours-DBS-service with 2 channels in June of 1989 the percentage was only...

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

Author: Hiroshi Kojima

May 1, 1994

Defining television quality through audience reaction measures

This paper will report on findings from an experimental study, commissioned by the Independent Television Commission (ITC), which explored a number of techniques for assessing audience satisfaction with television in terms of the perceived quality...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Barrie Gunter, John Clemens, Mallory Wober

June 15, 1992