[78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more oddball 78 album]

[Elizabeth McLeod]

Even so, that's just twelve percent of those who responded to Cantril's
survey, which is very much a minority of the total. The myth that's built up
over the decades is that "most of" those who tuned into WOTW partway thru
did so as a result of tuning out of Chase & Sanborn (or, specifically,
tuning out on Nelson Eddy, which we've already proven to be false, since
Eddy did not perform "after Bergen's first routine.") In fact, most of those
who joined WOTW in progress were tuning out on programs *other than Chase &
Sanborn* -- or they were simply turning the radio on after the program
started, and didn't tune out on any other program at all.

Elizabeth

On 10/31/13 1:17 PM, "Joe Scott" <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

> Judging from Cantril's survey hundreds of thousands of people did the same
> thing, switched from Chase and Sanborn to Welles at the same time.
> Joseph Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Elizabeth McLeod
> Sent: 10/30/13 07:14 PM
> To: 78-L
> Subject: Re: [78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more
> oddball 78 album]
> 
> What that figure doesn't include is that the majority of people who were
> listening to Chase & Sanborn -- about 37 million according to Hooper, versus
> about 6 million for Welles -- didn't tune out at all. They stayed with the
> program all the way thru -- they didn't hear any part of the Welles program.
> And if we accept Cantril's figures, 82 percent of the people who tuned into
> Welles from some other program tuned into it from some program other than
> Chase & Sanborn. That doesn't leave an awful lot of people out of the whole
> audience who didn't like Dorothy Lamour. The common story is that the Chase &
> Sanborn audience tuned out en masse at the twelve-minute mark, but neither
> Cantril nor any other source actually supports that. Elizabeth On 10/30/13
> 12:44 PM, "Joe Scott" <joenscott at mail.com> wrote: > Hi,Of 93 people sampled
> who listened to both shows, 58 tuned out of Chase and > Sanborn at the same
> time. If Chase and Sanborn was a very popular show, then > I'd say that survey
> doe
>  s point to quite a lot of people total (and has a > margin of error of
> whatever).What hard evidence is there that doesn't support > the tuneout
> story?Joseph Scott[...]The only actual support for the "tuneout" > story is in
> Hadley Cantril's book -- which, in turn, is based on a personal > survey he
> performed after the broadcat. He sent out 846 survey cards to people > who had
> heard at least part of the Welles broadcast. 518 cards were returned, > and of
> those, 18 percent of those said they had also heard part of the Chase & >
> Sanborn program. Sixty-two percent of that 18 percent said they had tuned out
> > of Chase & Sanborn at the conclusion of Bergen's first routine -- which led
> > into Lamour's song. That's all the hard evidence that exists for the tuneout
> > story -- and if you do the math, it doesn't come to an awful lot > of
> people."[...] > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing
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