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Controlling TV household panel composition by dynamic viewing segments

This paper describes a panel management strategy using targets for household composition, including some related to rapidly changing Population characteristics. These targets may be used to control panel imposition through a stratification scheme or...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: Jonathan Jephcott, Colm O’Muircheartaigh

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1998

Evolution, not revolution

Digital delivery of TV and other digitally-delivered services is about to begin in the United Kingdom. Data gathered by the futura.com panel which was set up in 1996 indicate that consumer interest and potential uptake may be less rapid than...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Michael Svennevig

June 15, 1998

Passive audience measurement

Since the early 1990s, MediaCheck and others have been talking about coding programs and commercials with inaudible identification codes and developing new systems for measuring TV and radio audiences through the use of portable, passive meters. How...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Lee Weinblatt

June 15, 1998

The evolution of a Latin American audit process

This paper provides a framework for establishing an initial examination process and demonstrates how people from different countries can work together for the improvement of media research.

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: George Ivie, Nick Terlizzi

Company: Ernst and Young Services Pty Ltd

June 15, 1998

Matching pictures, matching expectations

This paper describes the Taylor Nelson AGB Picture Matching Technology (PMT) for identifying the program or channel being viewed on a television set. It outlines the structure of a field test conducted in Vancouver, Canada in late 1997/early 1998 to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: Ken Purdye, Owen Charlebois

June 15, 1998

Analogue and digital television in Europe measuring change

More than seventy-three million European households receive satellite TV, two million in digital. However development is not consistent and there are marked variations by country. Digital broadcasting is adding an additional complexity to television...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: Thomas Merz, Bruce Roberts

June 15, 1998

Getting those respondents involved!

Because of the large sample sizes, the variety of market conditions, and the variety of methods used by Arbitron in syndicated audience measurement in the United States, the authors have had a rich opportunity to conduct rigorous experimentation in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: David Lapovsky, Robert H. Patchen

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1998

Should Melrose place be relocated?

This research examines television programme rescheduling to maximise total ratings for one network across a week. Respondents read these re scheduled programme schedules and choose the network to watch during prime time. Only a small but informative...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Peter J. Danaher

June 15, 1998

A lesson for the European Monetary Union?

China, with 1.2 billion people and 300 million television households, is fast becoming one of the largest advertising markets in the world. In early 1996 China had approximately 107 different television ratings surveys and there was little hope of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Justin Cahill

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1998