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Radio station competition and the population

U.S. radio stations compete among themselves in a pattern that differs somewhat from today’s population-proportionate survey samples. Some demographic groups are served by more stations than others, in ways that can’t be explained by...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: James D. Peacock, Thomas W. White

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Tigers by the tail

We can expect to see Television audience measurement services expand to more and more developing countries in the near future. These markets are often characterised by widely varying levels of station coverage, television penetration and considerable...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Kenda Harris Rehayel, Philip Rich

June 15, 1996

Measuring minority groups using mainstream surveys

This paper describes the ways in which the United Kingdom's radio audience research system (RAJAR) has been developed and modified since its beginnings in 1992 to improve representation of minorities. Primarily its coverage relates to the measurement...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Roger Gane, John Stockley

June 15, 1996

The variability of audience measurement data and how to live with it

The paper reviews the concept of sampling error applied to various methods of sampling and television panels in particular.Approaches are described for calculating sampling errors in relation to: Programme/Commercial Break Ratings Commercial...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Tony Twyman, Steve Wilcox

June 15, 1996

Not more of the same... more of something different

This paper looks at the evolution of peoplemeter-based measurement within TV audience research and the reasons for its growth. It argues that reliance on a single methodology like this was appropriate in a mass-market, homogeneous media environment...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: David Brennan

June 15, 1996

On the possibility of predicting ratings reliably

The paper reports on a secondary analysis of Australian People Meter data, using trend-series data analysis techniques. It places particular emphasis on deriving a neural network model of television audience estimates. The research program has been...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: Ian Garland

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

Zapp!

This paper describes an extensive research project concerning the leakage and influx of viewers during commercial breaks. The goal of this research project is to determine which factors bring about this kind of channel switching. The study covers the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: Lex van Meurs

Company: GfK

June 15, 1996

Measuring audience reaction in the UK

This paper deals with the measurement of audience reaction - what viewers think of the television programmes they watch - which is monitored on a continuous basis by broadcasters in the UK. The problems of translating appreciation into a simple score...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Richard Windle, Liz Landy

June 15, 1996

ITV ratings are not a commodity product

The historic perception that too much “wastage” is generated on TV and the recent increase in fragmentation of viewing, were beginning to have deleterious effects on UK television advertising and the major commercial channel, ITV, in...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: Susan Read

Company: Laser Marketing Research (Europe) Ltd.

June 15, 1996