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Kin statewide study University of Denver's study of radio and its audience locates and describes the consumer for all sponsors M i npondents reported, for five wars r longer. • Radio is welcomed as an wal■ys available" medium and is I'lftcn used for companionship. • Nearly half its listeners sa\ hey depend on radio "a greal deal" U ir "fairlj much" for information uk ibout products and services. • Vlthough eight out of ten liseners tunc in to hear music, man) f them have sharp criticisms of nusic programs. • More highly selective listening >ccuis in areas where there are Afnorv stations to listen to. • Radio is not often looked to foi . 'food for thought" — a fact that night give programers something o think about, the report suggests. • The more isolated people are whether by geographic, physical, conomic or social causes the nore the) depend upon radio. listening Patterns. The report tlickl) establishes that almost >l verybod) in Colorado listens to adio. It is such a popular and acessible medium, in tact, that an mpressivc number of the people Qterviewed eight out of ten — aid that the) had access to a radio. -.j hat the) had access to a portable. iiat they personal!) owned a raio. that they themselves listened 3 radio at least five days a week. The breakdown on those astoning answers goes something like his: 98 percent of the sample reported being able to listen to a raio somewhere, somehow. Eighty percent had access to a portable Bdio. Another "5 percent — nearly ight out of ten — answered "yes" i-hen asked if the) owned a radio (ersonally. And 85 percent said lat they listened to radio five to even days a week. An interesting oint about radio's prevalenc CHART 1: Radio Audience Characteristics Characteristic (Base) SEX Light Listeners (38°o) Moderate Listeners (26°o) Heavy L:sten> t; (36°o Male (97 39% 29% 32 Female (103) 37 23 40 AGE 13 19 29 31 31 38 20-24 (21 29 19 52 25 34 (30^ 53 24 23 35-44 (61) 28 29 43 45-64 (41) 41 27 32 65 and over ( 1 8) 50 6 U EDUCATION Elementary and some high school 70> 33 21 46 Completed high school 64 33 29 38 Some College (38) 42 29 29 Completed college or more (28) 53 29 18 INCOME Under $5,000 (67 37 20 43 $5,000-56,999 42 36 21 43 $7,000-$9,999 55 41 35 24 $10,000 and more 32 41 25 34 ACCESS TO RADIOS Access to 1-3 radios 78) 49 22 29 Access to 4-6 radios 78 31 33 36 Access to 7 radios or more (44 30 22 48 ; Jly 6, 1964