Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Starter Task

NRS stands for National Readership Survey and they gather information from magazines about their audiences

BARB stands for broadcasters audience research board, they collect viewing figures from television programs etc.


  1. 217 age range for pick me up magazine, this is 1.2%
  2. All about soap receives a total of 293,000 
  3. Heat magazine is a gossip magazine, fashion, tv and sport but mostly gossip about celebrities so the demographics of this is more people of a C2DE  read the magazine as its cheap at £1.65 and doesn't contain much information what educates the reader. It also has a higher number of 15-34 yr old read it at 371,000  compared to 215000 over 35 because the younger generation are more interested in celebrity gossip.
  1. The most popular genre in October 2016 was entertainment
  2. Current affairs received 4.88% share of audience
  3. Wentworth Prison was the most popular program on channel 5 in July

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