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by Leung Wai Lun Nicholas, Tse Chung Yan. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47). / ABSTRACTS --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.5 / Background --- p.5 / Market Coverage of ACNielsen's ratings measurement --- p.5 / Methodology of Audience Rating Measurement by ACNielsen --- p.6 / TV Ratings Measurement --- p.7 / Differentiation by Dayparts --- p.7 / Differentiation by Programmes --- p.8 / Use of Program Audience Rating --- p.9 / Strategy Formulation from Audience Rating --- p.10 / Chapter CHAPTER II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.12 / Television Channels and Advertisements: --- p.12 / New Forms of TV Advertising --- p.13 / Chapter CHAPTER III --- RESEARCH OBJECTIVES --- p.14 / Chapter CHAPTER IV --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PROCESSES --- p.15 / The Data Set --- p.15 / Database Description --- p.15 / Sample Composition --- p.15 / TV Rating (TVR) --- p.16 / Data Structure --- p.16 / TABLE 1 --- p.16 / Data Cleansing --- p.17 / Phase I Process一Data Extraction --- p.17 / Phase II Process´ؤData Conversion --- p.18 / Phase III Process´ؤDatabase Mapping --- p.18 / Phase IV Process一Data Transformation --- p.18 / "Tabulation, Sorting, and Descriptive Statistical Analysis" --- p.19 / Chapter CHAPTER V --- RESULTS AND ANALYSIS --- p.20 / Descriptive Statistics --- p.20 / Analysis By Programmes --- p.24 / Analysis By Day --- p.28 / Analysis by week --- p.29 / Analysis by time slots/dayparts --- p.29 / Weekdays TVBJ and ATVH Mean Ratings Per Minute --- p.30 / Audience movements in channel switching --- p.32 / Interpretation from 2:00am to 7:00am --- p.33 / Interpretation from 7:00am to 11:00am --- p.34 / TV News Increases Switching Phenomenon --- p.35 / Analysis of Prime Time --- p.35 / Program types' effect on commercial break --- p.37 / Analysis of commercial break --- p.37 / Commercial Break Effect --- p.37 / Chapter CHAPTER VI --- LIMITATIONS OF ANALYSIS --- p.40 / Numbers of TV channels taken into account --- p.40 / Program categories --- p.40 / Rating of those not watching TV --- p.40 / Size of database --- p.40 / Factors affecting ratings --- p.41 / Audience size --- p.41 / Chapter CHAPTER VII --- CONCLUSION --- p.42 / Chapter CHAPTER IIX --- FUTURE RESEARCH --- p.45 / Proposed Regression Analysis´ؤChannel Switching Analysis --- p.45 / Channel Switching Regression Model Building --- p.45 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.47 / APPENDIX / Appendix A: SAS Outputs Statistics --- p.57 / Appendix B: Sample of Commercial Log File --- p.82 / Appendix C: SAS Programs Codes --- p.85 / Appendix D: Data Cleansing Programs in C --- p.89 / Appendix E: Full view of Mean Ratings Plots --- p.95

by Paul Siu-nam Lee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1979. / Bibliography: leaves 98-102.

by Li Yiu-Ming. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Bibliography: leaves 82-84.