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Radio audience measurement systems across Europe

This paper follows up a range of issues about the validity and reliability of radio audience measurement systems across Western European countries. Evidence of their unreliability was in particular demonstrated by what can happen to a country's radio...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Peter Menneer

July 1, 1995

Radio research in Germany

At the beginning of 1995 a multi-million Mark research project was launched by the radio networks involved in the media analysis association, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e.V. or AG.MA for short. The object of this project is to investigate the...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Dieter Müller-Veeh

July 1, 1995

A case history

In 1981-82 NRK launched a new station, Radio 2 with a programme concept not very different from that of the existing Radio 1. The two stations were run by two separate organizations located 500 kilometres apart, competing for the same listeners. Over...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Authors: Erik Dalen, Tor Fuglevik

July 1, 1995

The contribution of qualitative audience research for programming and market segmentation

"Radio NRW" is the biggest private radio station in Germany. It is broadcasted in the state of Northrhine-Westfalia (NRW) and thus it is competing against some of the public programmes, that have a huge competitive potential. It is therefore vital to...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Werner Schurmanns

July 1, 1995

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

Research on the radio listening audience in Italy

In this paper the authors present the up to date situation of the surveys on the radio listening audience in Italy. The first part of the paper contains a brief description of the evolution in recent years of the radio in Italy and of the surveys...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Authors: Leonardo Abbruzzese, Giorgio Visintini

Companies: Unicab Italia S.p.A, SWG Spa

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

Sampling

The Research Department of Radio Slovenia has, after twenty years of continuous research into radio listening, stated that the daily amount of radio listening has drastically dropped over the past year. The paper deals with the process of carefully...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Vida Srot

July 1, 1995