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Audience research special reports

Audience research special reports

Collection: BBC Listener Research Department Reports, 1937-c.1950    Volumes    Audience research special reports
BBC WAC ref. R9/9: Relating to specific topics or aspects of audience behaviour between 1937 and 1950, these reports were designed to provide an analysis of the audience and their reactions to programming. The early reports and enquiries are divided by subject and filed in bound volumes. Some are related to specific programmes and are in the same format as the later Listener Research Reports, whilst others are more detailed and cover broader areas, such as children's programming.N.B. Despite appearances to the contrary, reproduced here are all the surviving special reports held at the BBC's Written Archives Centre. The practice within the LRD was to assign numbers date-sequentially to every document as it was issued, regardless of its type (i.e. bulletin, supplement, report, barometer). Any gaps in numeration, which suggest missing reports, in fact represent numbers that were assigned to documents now held in other series. For more on the context of these special reports, please see "The good servant: the origins and development of BBC Listener Research 1936-1950" by Siân Nicholas, located in our detailed description section.
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Reports for 1950

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/14. Comprises the following reports: Searchlight (LR/50/51); The new Home Service Sunday pattern (LR/50/161); Timing of "Listen with mother" (LR/50/379); Puffney post office (LR/50/429); Election broadcasts, February...

Date:1950-1950
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-14
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/14

Reports for 1949

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/13. Comprises the following reports: Soundings on foreign station listening (LR/49/615); Social status and listening behaviour (LR/49/619); Cinema organists (LR/49/1386); Sunday listening to Luxembourg (LR/49/2686); Television enquiry....

Date:1949-1949
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-13
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/13

Reports for 1948

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/12. Comprises the following reports: The Welsh language (LR/48/589); Third Programme reception and programme preferences amongst the listening panel (LR/48/596); A listening panel enquiry on regional allegiance...

Date:1948-1948
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-12
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/12

Reports for 1947

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/11. Comprises the following reports: Applause in broadcast concerts, song recital presentation (LR/6972); How the public finds out what is on the wireless (LR/47/13); The Third Programme...

Date:1947-1947
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-11
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/11

Reports for 1946

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/10. Comprises the following reports: The form of "Lift up your hearts" (LR/4322); Listeners look back at 1945 (LR/4650); National Savings announcements, spring 1946 (LR/4930); Planning for...

Date:1946-1946
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-10
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/10

Reports for 1945

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/9. Comprises the following reports: Summary of Jobs for all (LR/3163); Jobs for all (LR/3164); Christmas programmes, 1944 (LR/3166); War report (LR/3200); Dobson and Young in "Music...

Date:1945-1945
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-09
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/9

Reports for 1944

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/8. Comprises the following reports: News bulletins listening habits (LR/2440); Features dramatising fighting (LR/2474); Homes for all - the BBC looks at the problem (LR/2553); Radio drama...

Date:1944-1944
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-08
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/8

Reports for 1943

BBC WAC ref. R9/9/7. Comprises the following reports: Programmes about industry and war workers in industry (LR/1458); Listening to enemy broadcasts (LR/1459); Evening listening habits of civilians (LR/1463); Criticisms of...

Date:1943-1943
Contributor:BBC. Written Archives Centre
Identifier:248-r9-09-07
Archive Reference(s):BBC WAC R9/9/7
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