Who's Listening?: The Story of BBC Audience Research

Who's Listening?: The Story of BBC Audience Research
ISBN-10
1315444224
ISBN-13
9781315444222
Series
Who's Listening?
Category
Social Science
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2016-10-14
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Robert J.E. Silvery

Description

This book, first published in 1974, is the story of BBC Audience Research, a behind-the-scenes activity that has always been the subject of some curiosity. It describes the early, tentative experiments, designed both to develop ways of applying the techniques of social research to broadcasting and to win the confidence of BBC staff. The way World War II, which deprived programme planners of many of their familiar landmarks, acted as a fillip to audience research, which emerged at the end of the war as an established and accepted adjunct to broadcasting, is described in detail.

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