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The role of qualitative research in interpreting audience measurement data for local radio

In line with the BBC's policy of 'Extending Choice 1' , BBC Local Radio stations have increased their reliance on broadcast journalism to distinguish them from the commercial competition. Over the past two or three years there has been a gradual...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Eleanor Cowie

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

July 1, 1995

The relationship between audience share and audience appreciation

The paper examines the relationship between CBC radio programs' audience size (as measured by BBM estimates of share) and audience qualitative appreciation (as measured by qualitative indices or QI's in the CBC's annual Qualitative Radio Study). The...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Author: Philip Savage

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

Interactive TV

New communications technologies are promising an array of new interactive services that will be available in the near future to consumers. In assessing the market for interactive television, our research focused on these objectives: 1. What is the...

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

Author: Marjorie Michitti

May 1, 1994

Experiments in the measurement of TV audience reactions

This paper deals with the measurement of program appreciation in the Netherlands. In the first part of this essay, attention is given to the value and applications of appreciation scores and the method of collecting them is discussed. Appreciation...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Wim Bekkers

June 15, 1992

Audience reaction information

Channel Four is a U.K. national television channel, set up in 1982 and today accounts for around 10% of all viewing. It is financed from the sale of commercial airtime but it is not a private enterprise. It is, effectively, a public service...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Hugh Johnson

June 15, 1992

Headlamp and rear-view mirror

The purpose of this paper is to show how a reader panel is being used by the editorial teams of Family Circle and Living as part of a circulation building strategy. We begin by reviewing the background of declining circulations, new management, and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Authors: Guy Consterdine, Caroline Fraser

November 23, 1983

Audience appreciation and audience size

Most television programmes can be classified into two main programme types, Information and Entertainment. Information programmes tend to get smaller audiences but higher appreciation scores than do Entertainment programmes. Between these two main...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Patrick Barwise, Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Gerald J. Goodhardt

June 15, 1979

How relative simple reader-panel methods yield valuable contributions to editorial policies (Part I)

For editorial policy it is important to estimate readers' appreciation of the contents. The panel method is one way of sounding the readers and getting a contribution to the editorial policy. In this paper we will present experiences and examples...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: F. T. M. van der Staay

June 15, 1974