Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study the T.V. audiences attitude in Bangkok, focusing on a perspective of watching prime time "news program" that viewing on all 6 free T.V. channels of Thailand (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and ThaiPBS). The questionnaire of the research had filled by 400 T.V. audiences which showed the details of facts, statistic, frequency, average, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and two-way in case of statistically significant differences by LSD method.
The research revealed that the main viewers are female, aged between 20-30 years old, married status, undergraduate level, employee, and had average income more than 30,000 Baht per month. There were many factors: age, status, education level, profession, and income, which affected T.V. audiences attitude. However, there were some other factors, including news content, up-to-date, dimension of news presentation, broadcasting time, and difference of news anchors, affected T.V. audiences attitude at .05 and .01 level of significant differences.