Transcript AEM Lecture
Broadcast Media
Lecture Outline
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Broadcast Media
Radio
Television
Film and Video
Product Placement
Using Broadcast Advertising Effectively
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Broadcast Media
• Transmit sounds or images
electronically
• Include radio and television
• Broadcast engages more senses than
reading and adds audio as well as
motion for television
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Radio
Structure of the Industry
Radio Advertising
• AM/FM
• Relies on the listener’s
mind to fill in the visual
• Public radio
element
• Cable radio
• Delivers a high level of
• Satellite radio
frequency
• LPFM
• Radio commercials led
• Web radio
themselves to repetition
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Revenue Categories
•Network
• Group of local affiliates
connected to one or
more national networks
• Viable national medium
for food and beverages,
cars, and over-thecounter drugs
• Growth has contributed
to increase in syndicated
radio
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Revenue Categories
•Network
•Spot
• When an advertiser
places an ad with an
individual station rather
than a network
• Makes up nearly 80% of
all radio advertising
• Messages can be
tailored for particular
audiences
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Revenue Categories
•Network
•Spot
•Syndicated
• Offers advertisers a
variety of high-quality,
specialized, and usually
original programs
• Advertisers value
syndicated
programming because
of the high level of
audience loyalty
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The Radio Audience
• Station fans
– Largest segment of radio
listeners
– A clear preference for
one or two stations
• Radio fans
– May listen to four or five
stations per week
– Show no preference for
one particular station
• Music fans
– People who listen
exclusively for the music
being played
• News fans
– Choose stations based on
a need for news and
information
– Have one or two favorite
stations
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Measuring the Radio Audience
• Dayparts
– Typical radio programming day is divided into five
segments called dayparts
• Coverage
– The number of homes in a geographic area that are
able to pick up the station clearly
• Ratings
– The percentage of homes actually tuned in to a
particular station
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Radio
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Advantages
Target audience
Affordability
Frequency
Flexibility
Mental imagery
High level of
acceptance
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Disadvantages
Listener inattentiveness
Lack of visuals
Clutter
Scheduling and buying
difficulties
Lack of control
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Television
• Television advertising is embedded in
television programming
• Most of the attention in media buying, and in
measuring effectiveness, focuses on the
performance of various shows and how they
engage their audiences
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Structure of the Television Industry
• Network
television
• When two or more
stations are able to
broadcast the same
program that originates
from a single source
• Networks originate
programs and provide
them to local affiliates
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Structure of the Television Industry
• Network
television
• Cable and
subscription
• Provide highly targeted
special-interest
programming options
• Cable is most familiar
example of subscription
television
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Structure of the Television Industry
• Network
television
• Cable and
subscription
• Local television
• Affiliated with a
network
• Carry network
programming and their
own programs
• Independent stations
• Most advertisers are
local retailers
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Structure of the Television Industry
• Network
television
• Cable and
subscription
• Local television
• Public television
• Many consider public
television to be
commercial-free
• Stations can air program
sponsorship ads
• Reaches the affluent
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Programming Options
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Specialty television
Pay-per-view
Program syndication
Interactive television
High-definition TV
Digital Video Reorders
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Television Advertising
• Sponsorships
• Advertiser assumes total
financial responsibility
for producing the
program and providing
the commercials
• Advertiser can control
the content and quality
of the program and the
placement and length of
commercials
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Television Advertising
• Sponsorships
• Participations
• Where advertisers pay
for 10, 15, 20, 30, or 60
seconds of commercial
time during a program
• Provides more
flexibility in market
coverage, target
audiences, scheduling,
and budgeting
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Television Advertising
• Sponsorships
• Participations
• Spot
announcements
• Commercials that
appear in the breaks
between programs
• Local affiliates sell
these to advertisers who
want to show their ads
locally
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Measuring the Television Audience
• Rating points
– The percentage of all the
households with
television tuned into a
particular program
• Share of audience
– The percentage of
viewers based on the
number of sets turned on
• Gross Rating Points
– The sum of the total
exposure expressed as a
percentage of the
audience population
• People meters
– Record what television
shows are being
watched, the number of
households watching,
and which family
members are viewing
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Television
Advantages
• Pervasiveness
• Cost efficiency
• Impact
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Disadvantages
Production costs
Clutter
Wasted reach
Inflexibility
Intrusiveness
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Film and Video
• Trailers
• Videocassette and DVD
distributors also placing
ads before movies
• Promotional video
networks in stores,
offices, truck stops, etc.
Advantages
• Play to a captive
audience
• Attention level is higher
than for almost any
other form of
commercials
Disadvantages
• Captive audience
resents intrusion of ads
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Product Placement
• When a company pays
to have verbal or visual
brand exposure in a
movie or TV program
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Advantages
Demonstrates product
usage in a natural
setting by celebrities
Catches audience when
resistance to ads is low
Disadvantages
May not be noticed
Not a match between
product/movie/audience
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Using Broadcast Advertising
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Use Radio If…
Local business
Highly targeted audience
Small budget
Timing consideration
Align interests with program
Personal message with
human voice
Works in musical form or
strong in mental imagery
Need reminder message
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Use Television If…
Want wider mass audience
Align interests with program
Good budget
Product needs both sight
and sound
Prove something to
audience
Halo effect
Create or reinforce brand
image and personality
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Using Broadcast Advertising
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Use Movie Ads If…
National brand
Have budget to do highquality commercials
Want to associate brand
with movie stars
Movie audience matches
brand’s target audience
Substantial visual impact
and quality production
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Use Placement If…
Want to associate brand
with stars and story
Viewing audience matches
brand’s target audience
Natural fit between product
and storyline
Opportunity for brand as
star
Appeals to stakeholders
Supporting ad campaign
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Bibliography
Principles of Advertising & IMC by Tom Duncan 2nd
Edition, Published by McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Event Management For Tourism, Cultural, Business and
Sporting Events by Lynn Van Der Wagen Brenda R.
Carlos Published by Pearson Prentice Hall.
Advertising Principles and Practice by W. Wells, S.
Moriarty and J. Burnett, Published by Prentice Hall
International.
Integrated Marketing Communications by David Pickton
& Amanda Broderick Published by Prentice Hall.
The End
“Be brave. Even if you are not,
pretend to be.
No one can tell the difference.”