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Measuring what is being watched

The last ten years have seen the widespread introduction of Peoplemeters as the standard method of measurement of TV audiences through large parts of the world. This process is continuing; Peoplemeters are now appearing in the countries of Eastern...

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

Authors: Michael A. Kirkham, Peter Wilcox

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

May 1, 1994

The seductiveness and reality of new technologies for the next generation of electronic media

As communication technologies hurtle down the information highway, audience researchers increasingly adopt technology-based measurement. The lure of technology solutions seduces us from traditional paper diaries, from household tuning meters, from...

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

Authors: Ronald S. Kolessar, Roberta M. McConochie

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

The USS6 billion question: What will viewers view in 2001?

This paper takes as its starting point the profusion of channel choices that are being bandied about in the media, and asks whether there will be any real change in the way that viewers view in the next few years. Beyond the seven year marker, there...

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

Author: John Kaye

May 1, 1994

Understanding and using likeability

This paper presents the results flowing from a large database (100 television commercials) developed over a 10 year period. The database measures the in-market awareness and likeability of all television commercials in South Africa, within two to...

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

Author: Erik Du Plessis

May 1, 1994

The multimedia wearable passive meter

Originally, it was thought that the need for a wearable passive meter was mostly to improve the current response rates of Nielsen and Arbitron audiences. However, even if there were no need to improve upon the current response rates of Peoplemeters...

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

Author: Lee Weinblatt

May 1, 1994

The reliability of television audience ratings

Television audience ratings are extremely important for the evaluation of television programmes, stations and commercials. It is argued that, as a result of various sample and other characteristics of the Dutch people meter panel, daily ratings of...

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

Author: Arie K. den Boon

May 1, 1994

Quality methods, quality results!

For over thirty years, the U.S. Committee on Nationwide Television Audience Measurement (CONTAM) has engaged in methodological research. Its purpose has been to understand and improve television audience measurement, in order to increase the...

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

Author: Nicholas P. Schiavone

May 1, 1994

Bringing the TV meters to the Gulf

The paper is divided in seven sections. The first section describes in brief the background of the UAE TV Meter System's implementation, outlining the size and the criteria followed in structuring the panel, as well as the period over which the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Author: Fady Rizkallah

January 1, 1994

Agencies' problems with advertisers in the Middle East

Agencies' Problems with Advertisers in the Middle East is the result of the application of BBDO's PDS  technology and is a sequel study to Advertisers' Problems with Agency Service in the Middle East, presented at the 1st ESOMAR/MERF/IAA...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Authors: Lance de Masi, Harout Krikorian

January 1, 1994