The purposes of this study were to compare the differences of regimes of watching program selection behavior when audience watches various types of television programs, and to explore the reasons of program selection and turning channels. Four hundreds and eighty-one audiences (over 15 year) were used as the subjects. The research instrument was “audience watching television program type, watching system, and; watching behavior questionnaire”. The collected data were analyzed by χ2 and used in-depth interview to collect and analyze the reasons of program selection and turning channels. The results were as the following: As to the revaluation, for female audience, their loyalty and adherence or devotion was higher than that of male’s. Comparing to the female audience when watching news broadcasting, the male audience watched according to a fixed plan. In addition, their frequency of channels turning also was lower than the female audience. The young people was lacking of advanced plan while watching television and their frequency of channels turning was much higher comparing to the adults. Audience with different educational levels had the same ---“Revaluation” type, the drama taking %the highest proportion in the planning viewing type while the movie the highest in the orienting search type . The reason for audience selecting the television programs and turning channels depends on the contents of the programs and the commercial advertisements as well. And contents of the programs had been the main points pulling or pushing the audience away. The drama programs would hold the audience because of the story lines and lost them because the improper plot development or arrangement. The news broadcasting kept or lost the audience as well because of the fairness and the neutrality of report. Commercial advertisements broadcasting was the critical moment, if the program attraction was strong enough, the audience might return, otherwise, staying in different channels became possible.
中文關鍵詞
閱\聽人,節目選擇行為
英文關鍵詞
audience, regimes of watching program selection behavior