Sentences with phrase «syndicated religious»

The Nielsen Company, for example, each November produces a «Report on Syndicated Program Audiences» which lists not only audience sizes for the various syndicated religious programs, but also age and sex variables, national and DMA ratings, and syndication information.

Table 7.3 indicates that independent evangelical groups in 1981 accounted for 83.3 percent of the top of syndicated religious programs on television.

Nielsen survey figures show that in 1981 there were only five syndicated religious programs that had a national rating of one or better.

The adoption of this intensive audience solicitation within the organization enabled the program to expand to such an extent that in 1971 it was the third most widely syndicated religious program in the country.

The effect of the growth in paid - time religious programs was felt not only by other syndicated religious programs but also by network religious programs.

The average audience figures given by Nielsen therefore may be lower than the total number of people who see a particular syndicated religious program during the time of its broadcast.

Certainly there has been a marked growth in the amount of syndicated religious programming, but there has also been a corresponding decrease in other types of religious programming which previously filled a substantial block in station schedules.

In clarifying these data, however, it is useful to distinguish between the audiences for syndicated religious programs and the audiences for the total slate of religious programming.

These figures certainly do not tally with other research, such as the Nielsen surveys which list the combined audience for all syndicated religious programs on television in November 1980 as 19.1 million adults and children.

In addition to the audiences for syndicated religious programs, the audience for all religious programs also includes the audiences for other programs such as local religious programs (which increasingly are turning to cable), network religious programs, religious specials, and those programs broadcast outside the regular sweeps period.

Nielsen audience data for November 1979 indicate that the average number of women viewers per household for all syndicated religious programs was.74 compared to.42 men viewers.

churches accounting for 30 percent of the U.S. church population, in 1979 and 1981 had no major syndicated religious program.

Both survey companies include syndicated religious programs in their regular audience research and many of the large religious organizations subscribe to one or both of these services as an aid in the syndication and marketing of their programs.

Again, the growth in the combined audience for syndicated religious programs appears to have reached a peak in 1977 and has been fluctuating

As will be seen in more detail subsequently, Nielsen figures for 1979 show only five syndicated religious programs that were able to gain equal to or greater than a rating of one.

Not exact matches

Some network religious specials also rate as high as or higher than the syndicated paid - time programs.

Organized crimes, whether committed by a state (whether or not they acknowledge it as a crime), religious group, or crime syndicate are just that organized crime.

Given the increased diversity, selectivity, and competitiveness which cable brings in the choice of programs, it is unlikely that the movement of syndicated programming into cable will bring about a radical increase in the audience of religious programs.

The study found that in 1971, 88.9 percent of all paid - time religious programs were broadcast on Sundays, compared to 77.3 percent of sustaining syndicated programs and 73.5 percent of local religious programs.

This narrowing of the range of traditions is shown by an examination of the sources represented by the 12 leading religious syndicated programs.

Audience figures presented in detail in the next chapter suggest that these syndicated programs have displaced higher - rating network programs, which may also result in a smaller audience for religious programming on television.

Religious programs are low in the overall rating of syndicated programs in the country.

This characteristic is illustrated further by comparing the syndication patterns of three of the major paid - time religious programs with three major sustaining - time syndicated programs during the Nielsen sweeps period in November of each year.

Because the major portion of current religious broadcasting is made up of nationally syndicated programs, the pattern indicates market saturation by religious programs.

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