Selected Excerpts from Leisure Activities of the Adult Audience for Public Television [microform] / Karen Stenbo Sapolsky.

Conventional predictors of television viewing have been shown to give only a partial picture of adult viewers and nonviewers of public television. This report summarizes the results of a telephone survey, conducted in Chicago, Denver, and Boston, that attempted to determine whether public television...

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Main Author: Sapolsky, Karen Stenbo
Corporate Author: Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Office of Communication Research
Format: Microfilm Book
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
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Summary:Conventional predictors of television viewing have been shown to give only a partial picture of adult viewers and nonviewers of public television. This report summarizes the results of a telephone survey, conducted in Chicago, Denver, and Boston, that attempted to determine whether public television viewing is related to other patterns of adult leisure activity. After public television viewing or nonviewing status was established, 1,792 respondents were asked to rate their levels of participation in activities relating to religion and family, crafts and home, politics, sports and movies, and the arts. Separate measures of involvement assessed interest in public affairs, reading habits, club and organizational activities, and general television-viewing patterns. The relationship between educational background and these activities is noted; differences in levels of interest in specific leisure-time pursuits for each city are also discussed. (KS)
Item Description:Sponsoring Agency: Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
ERIC Document Number: ED145500.
Physical Description:24 p.
Reproduction Note:Microfiche.
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