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III. RADIO LISTENING HABITS 1. How does radio listening change through the year? ii IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM^ Average hours of in-home listening per home per day, 1956 Jan. Feb. Mar.Apr. MayJune JulyAug. Sept.Oct. Nov.Dec. Radio-tv homes 1.84 1.87 1.89 1.69 1.83 1.87 Radio-only homes 3.65 3.59 2.90 3.05 3.08 3.49 Soura Niel ien Radio [nd< s ^!lllllllllllllllllll!!lllllllllllllllllll!lll!l!llll[|lllllllllll!lllllllllllllliy 2. What's the trend in radio in-home listening in tv homes? iliiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ 1.71 1.83 1.83 1.82 1.69 As Nielsen figures to left show, listening hours in tv homes have risen slightly in recent years. The percentage increase indicated is equal to about six minutes daily. These figures indicate stability rather than change, show pattern of future m 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 ,;: muni mum ,iiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ 3. How does radio's audience accumulate? In-home listening, Monday-through-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-Noon % U. S. radio homes Audience during average day Homes reached (M on on. one -Fri. or more days 1 During average minute 15.7 At aver any time in age single hour 23.3 At 3-h any time in our day-part 35.7 In average single hour 45.6 In 3-hour day-part 58.6 0.67 1.32 1.72 4.02 Avg. hrs. listening per home reached IIIIIIUIIIilllllllilillllllllllillN Taken from a special analysis of the weekly radio and tv audience done by A. C. Nielsen during the week of 4-10 March 1956, these figures, though more than a year old, 188 are still valid and illustrate there is more than one way to look at radio audience data. Specifically, the figures illustrate the cumulation of radio listening in three-hour span TV AND RADIO BASICS