Honours shared in ratings war
- What was the sample size for the survey?
- Do you think this sample can be described as a representative
sample? Justify your opinion.
- What figures are not given in the article?
- Are the opinions of the station managers justified by the
results given in the article?
- Do you think Radio Surveys like this one are important? Justify
your opinion.
- Create a graph of the available data. Discuss the best type
of graph with your classmates.
- Conduct a survey of your class to find the most popular radio
station. Graph the results. Compare the results of your class
survey to those in the article? Are the results similar or different
- how do you account for this?
(Written by Peter Mobey, BTeach student, University of Tasmania,
2001)
Part A (Article)
- Why are radio ratings conducted?
- Who are the winners and why?
- What is the ratings war?
- Do you think that 1,200 listeners are enough for this type
of survey? Why?
- Do you think that 4 weeks is long enough to develop a listening
pattern?Why?
- What does the increased figure of 2.3% by HO-FM mean?
- What does the increased figure of 21.9% of the total Hobart
market look like? What ways can you think of to represent this?
- If ABC was second in the survey how far behind HO-FM were
they?
- How far behind ABC and HO-FM were TTT-FM and also Magic 107?
- How can you represent these figures?
- Where did HO-FM gain the largest growth in listeners?
- Who are the most important consumer age group and why?
- Give reasons why people would want listen to local radio.
Do you think this is so?
- How many groups of listeners can you identify in the article?
Who are the groups and at what time of the day do they listen
to the radio?
- Conduct your own survey from a sample group, Do you come
up with the same results?
- Show several ways you can record your survey results.
Part B (Table)
- Are these figures a surprise to you? Why?
- Do the figures that are given in Part A and the figures in
Part B represent the same set of figures? If not , why not? If
so, why?
- Are the figures hard to read? Why or why not? Can you interpret
the figures easily? Identify the ways you know to represent these
figures?
- Why would TTT-FM and Magic 107 provide these figures as a
community service?
- Analyse each group of figures individually and represent
each using fractions and percentages. Which way makes it easier
for you to read the figures? Why?
- Analyse each group of figures and represent these groups
of figures in different ways. Do they say the same thing? If
not why not, if so why?
- Can you identify any other radio stations that have not been
represented in this survey? Why would these radio stations not
be represented?
- Why would the survey figures be broken into these types of
groups? Can you think of other ways to group these figures?
- Can you think of alternative ways to represent these figures?
Which would be the best way? Represent your figures using this
method.
- What are the differences between each radio stations figures
in the overall listeners 10+?
- Why would there be a difference between the men and women
aged 18 and over group of figures? What is the difference between
the two groups? In what other ways can you represent this difference?
- Who is not represented in this survey?
- How many people all together listen to the radio? What would
be the best way to represent this information?
(Written by Wendy Bowen, BTeach student, University of Tasmania,
2001)
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