The purpose of the survey was to examine the precise content and range of the information presented to prospective voters in the European Elections by the main news bulletins and programmes on terrestrial television and on BBC Radio 4 in the five weeks up to the poll results on June 13, 1999. The survey monitored and recorded the main news output of UK terrestrial television: BBC 1 and 2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, as well as the main news bulletins and news programmes of BBC Radio 4.