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Greenberg, Bradley S. – Journal of Broadcasting, 1973
A description of the current status of television and radio exposure among five to nineteen year-old British children. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Listening Groups, Media Research, Radio

Barwise, T. P.; And Others – Journal of Communication, 1982
Data analysis from television-viewing surveys suggests that people are not "glued to the box." Rather, the level of repeat-viewing of television--about 60 percent--suggests that television fills the gap between other activities and that the reason people watch television is that they have "so much time to kill." (PD)
Descriptors: Activities, Audiences, Behavior Patterns, Leisure Time
Word, Carl – 1977
This paper deals with television viewing behavior in blacks. Research on viewing behavior and the effects of this medium on blacks is relatively scant. Some of the questions that precipitated this research are: (1) What are the effects of repeated exposure to violent episodes on blacks' capacities to respond to each others' needs? and (2) What…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Pilot Projects, Research Needs
St. Peters, Michelle; And Others – 1988
This study investigated several questions concerning the amount of viewing and types of programs children and parents watch alone and together. Patterns of children's viewing with and without parents were examined, as well as how parent-child coviewing affects individual family members' viewing. Children 3 to 5 and 5 to 7 years old, and their…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
Mohr, Phillip J. – 1977
Television viewing habits, program preferences, and parental guidance at 5,167 randomly selected urban/rural Kansas children in grades 4-9 were studied. Data collected by the administration of structured questionnaires to the children in 254 classrooms and separate questionnaires completed by 4,882 of the childrens' parents indicated that: (1) the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Commercial Television
Matabane, Paula W.; Gandy, Oscar H., Jr. – 1987
A study investigated the viewing behavior of a sample of public television supporters, specifically examining the relationship of their social characteristics to viewing and to knowledge about Africa as presented in the series "The Africans." Subjects, 120 District of Columbia adults drawn from the membership lists of a local public TV…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Differences, Documentaries
McDonald, Daniel G.; Glynn, Carroll J. – 1986
Focusing on how television viewing fits into a general model of consumer consumption patterns, a study examined (1) the extent to which the viewing of certain television content can be considered a "norm" of society, (2) similarities and differences between the norms for adults and those for children, and (3) some of the antecedents of…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Behavior Patterns, Content Analysis, Data Analysis