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Researching audiences to target audiences... A different type of single source

This paper addresses the subject of how to promote programmes more effectively. It is important to understand at the onset that this paper is not addressing the issue of repeat viewing to programmes or trying to understand or indeed quantify...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: David Brennan, Jeremy Wyndham

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1992

Statistical efficiencies in the new UK television audience measurement panels

A new BARB Audience Measurement Service for the UK was introduced in August 1991 using larger more dispersed samples. Among its most important innovations has been disproportionate demographic sampling in favour of certain key target audience...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Steve Wilcox, Barry Reeve

June 15, 1992

Problems of non-response and non-cooperation in a people meter panel

The quality of any audience measurement system is dependent on the quality of the sample upon which its data are based. This paper presents the results of two pieces of research that examine different aspects of A.C. Nielsen's network people meter...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Barry Kiefl, David M. Tattle

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1992

Radio advertising expenditure

This paper presents a comparison of the radio landscape and radio advertising in European countries. The commercial radio landscape in Europe varies considerably from country to country, ranging from Sweden where there is no commercial radio to Italy...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Flemming Hansen, Lars Grønholdt

June 15, 1992

Qualitative research as a strategic tool for helping to define the future role of public television

The objective of this research project is to help define, by means of qualitative research methods, the role of public broadcasting in Flanders. This presentation focuses on TV2, a channel geared towards more defined, segmented audiences. The project...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Leen d'Haenens

June 15, 1992

Quality of exposure

The paper is divided into two parts. First, recent changes with regard to the Spanish TV offer are briefly discussed, outlining the evolution from a public monopoly with only two channels of national coverage to the current situation, in which the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Enrique Domingo de Bias

June 15, 1992

A presentation of the TV, radio and print applications of the first intermedia personal meter

The intermedia watch has been discussed since 1987 and it was often seen as a myth. However, the production of a wearable passive device for recording television, radio, and print audiences is finally ready for a technology demonstration. This...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Lee Weinblatt, Stephen A. Douglas

June 15, 1992

In the eye of the storm

Concern regarding the effects of violence on television, especially on children, is one of the most important areas researched by academics. In contrast, relatively little attention has been given to this problem by commercial researchers. In...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Dan P. van Vuuren

June 15, 1992

Local market television measurement: A comparison of the statistical reliability of three methodologies

Since the introduction of the People Meters in the U.S., attention has been centered on its goodness as an accurate measurement method with particular emphasis on validation studies of audience levels. Relatively little attention has been focused on...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Michael Occhiogrosso

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1992