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  Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collection of various festivals in August and early September of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Edinburgh International Festival - The original and "official" festival consisting of classical and contemporary Theatre, Opera, Music and Dance.
Edinburgh Fringe - Started life as a small scale "fringe" event to the EIF, but is now the largest of all the festivals and indeed the largest arts festival in the world.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Edinburgh_Festival   (125 words)

  
 Edinburgh - Wikitravel
Edinburgh is in the Central Belt of Scotland and is the capital city of Scotland.
Edinburgh in the summer becomes "festival city" when a large number of major arts festivals are hosted in the city.
Edinburgh in the winter Festive Season is also huge: whole sections of central Edinburgh are roped off and accessible only by ticket for the New Years' Celebrations known as Hogmanay [1] (http://www.edinburghshogmanay.org/).
wikitravel.org /en/Edinburgh   (3811 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festivals - FAQs & Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Edinburgh in the summer is the Festival City and definitely the place to be with six of Edinburgh's festivals taking place.
Edinburgh & Lothians Tourist Board has a huge database of hotels, guest houses and B&B's that have all been inspected and graded.
Edinburgh airport (0131 333 1000) (website) is ten miles west of the city centre.
www.edinburgh-festivals.co.uk /FAQs.cfm   (898 words)

  
 iEmmys Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From 1999-2002, she was a member of the government's Film Council, and in 1999, she became a governor of the Banff Television Festival, which takes place annually in Canada.
In 2001, she became a Vice President of the Royal Television Society and in 2002, she became the Executive Chair of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, a post she will hold for three years.
That same year, she became a member of the Board of the International Emmy Awards and co-hosted the ceremony in November 2003, in New York.
www.iemmys.tv /board/Airey_D.html   (391 words)

  
 From Cultural Imperialism to Transnational Commercialization: Shifting Paradigms in International Media Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
International conferences are most often held in large metropolises, such as Seoul, and especially in the metropolitan commercial centers that constitute what Sassen (1995) has termed a “global grid of strategic sites,” those critical intersections with the resources and interconnected systems that make them “global cities” (Brezezinski, 1970; Sassen 1991, 1995).
He identifies the emergence of international consciousness with the rise of nation states and the modern era, relationships among states being a necessary concomitant of the formation of states as coherent entities.
I believe that the most important task confronting international communication research at the beginning of the 21st century is the close analysis of such shifting consumption communities, and their linkages to horizontally integrated systems of global commercialism, within and across specific cultural contexts.
lass.calumet.purdue.edu /cca/gmj/SubmittedDocuments/archivedpapers/Fall2002/Griffin.htm   (11585 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festival 2005 - Edinburgh International Festival 2005, Edinburgh Film Festival, Starbucks Edinburgh Jazz ...
One of the most popular events of the entire Edinburgh festival period is the annual featuring many of the Edinburgh festival performers along Princes Street and through the centre of the city and this year Edinburgh Festival's Cavalcade is on Sunday 7th August, 2005.
Edinburgh Festival Art Gallery show at Edinburgh MERZ Art Gallery features the outrageous fashion of Joey D. MERZ Gallery show this year follows a trend of MERZ Art Gallery to find art exhibitions that are totally different from the normal Festival fayre that is usually on offer in Edinburgh Art Galleries.
The Edinburgh International Television Festival, founded in 1976, and now in its 30th successful year, the Edinburgh International Television Festival is held annually over the August bank holiday weekend (26-28 August 2005), at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
www.edinburghcastle.biz /edinburgh_festivals.html   (2397 words)

  
 International Box Office - Entertainment International News - World Entertainment News - International Television
LONDON -- Walt Disney Television International is exploring the potential for global deployment of push video-on-demand services through a preliminary agreement with Swiss digital security specialists the Kudelski Group.
The vibrancy of Sarajevo, where this year's film festival closed after a 10-day run, is like an oasis of sanity in a country haunted by ghosts.
With six first-time directors in its competition lineup, the Deauville Festival of American film is becoming an important showcase for new talent.
www.vnuemedia.com /thr/international/index.jsp   (537 words)

  
 ALLmediascotland.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The International Festival, which finishes next weekend, has reported increases of 13 per cent on 2004 while the Film Festival grew up 12 per cent on 12 months ago and the Book Festival was up 10 per cent.
According to Claire Fox at a festival session discussing the relationship between TV factual programmes and the government, the hype even extended to the suggestion that children were so constipated they were vomiting their own faeces - despite it being medically impossible.
They are: in Edinburgh on Saturday September 17 at Filmhouse Cinema at 11am, in Aberdeen on September 18 at the Belmont Picturehouse at 11am, in Dundee on Monday on September 19 at the DCA at 6.30pm and in Glasgow on Tuesday September 20 at the CCA at 6.30pm.
www.allmediascotland.com /ams/stoppress.asp   (9921 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Edinburgh International Television Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
CHILDREN should be given lessons in understanding television to counteract the influence of reality TV shows, the feminist author and broadcaster Germaine Greer said last night.
REALITY television is set to come under the spotlight when veteran participants James Hewitt and Paul Danan descend on Edinburgh to discuss the phenomenon.
THE award for the best television channel of the year is to be presented at the Edinburgh...
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=295   (382 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1999 | 08/99 | Edinburgh Festival 99 | Public service broadcasting 'dying' - ITV boss
Speaking at the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, he said that with the increasing number of new channels it would be impossible to continue with the present system of TV regulation.
The television festival runs only for the weekend and is essentially an industry event, during which the venue for broadcasting executives' navel-gazing switches from London to Edinburgh.
Other key debates at the festival include a discussion on the effect abandoning the News at Ten has had on ITV and a session looking at the future of the BBC.
newsimg.bbc.co.uk /1/low/special_report/1999/08/99/edinburgh_festival_99/431502.stm   (560 words)

  
 EICC - Press Releases Archive
Edinburgh has beaten off stiff competition to host a major international cancer conference in 2004.
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), Scotland’s flagship meetings venue, has won one of the hospitality industry's top accolades.
A major international conference is being held at the EICC to address the issues surrounding productivity in business.
www.eicc.co.uk /content?page=s4_2&pagenum=4   (300 words)

  
 The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) : TV set shy away from Scottish Six at festival. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
THE Edinburgh International Television Festival will not be holding a debate on the controversial issue of a separate 6pm news bulletin for Scotland, it was revealed yesterday.
The festival, which consists of a series of high-profile talks and discussions about broadcasting in Britain, did not regard the subject as important enough for a separate session, according to Lis Howell, the festival's advisory chair.
Ms Howell said the subject of the bulletin, known as the Scottish Six, was not a "crest-of-the-wave issue" and would not be addressed as a separate subject.
static.highbeam.com /t/thescotsmanedinburghscotland/august181999/tvsetshyawayfromscottishsixatfestival/index.html   (230 words)

  
 Edinburgh festival 2005 - Edinburgh festival sites
The "official" festival, launched in 1947, around which the other Edinburgh festivals have developed.
The Festival of Politics (24-26 August 2005) is the latest addition to Edinburgh's festival calendar.
The first Festival of Politics is held at the new Scottish Parliament building.
www.edinburghguide.com /festival/fest_info.shtml   (296 words)

  
 @Edinburgh - The Stage's Guide to the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe
The Edinburgh fringe is a notoriously hard place to make money and yet companies keep coming back.
There is a little under a month to go before the three-day event, likely to leave the bulk of the television industry hungover for the rest of the year, kicks off.
The first Edinburgh International Festival was formed to showcase the arts that had been suppressed during the war years.
www.thestage.co.uk /edinburgh   (325 words)

  
 Advanced-television.com's news Archive August 23rd - 27th 2004
International police and intellectual-property experts say eastern European manufacturing centres are notorious for contributing to the estimated $29 billion in worldwide pirate software trade in 2003.
The company is currently in talks with taxi companies about the move and is hoping it will be able to install television screens in 3,000 taxis by the end of this year.
The in-house television shows produced by the company, mainly lifestyle programmes and public information, have already been shown on screens aboard some 2,000 buses in Beijing and the company wants to double the number by the end of the year.
www.advanced-television.com /2004/news_archive_2004/Aug23_27.htm   (6431 words)

  
 ITN - Edinburgh Festival gets underway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Edinburgh Festival - the world's biggest arts festival has open with a large parade in the Scottish capital.
The 59th Edinburgh Fringe features 16,000 performers who are expected to take part in nearly 27,000 performances in 300 venues until the end of August.
The world's longest continually-running film festival will open in the city four days later, while the 11th Edinburgh Mela, a two-day, inter-cultural festival, takes place on the weekend of September 3 and 4.
www.itn.co.uk /news/1757021.html   (330 words)

  
 M G E I T F   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival is the most significant event of the year for the broadcasting industry.
Featuring prominent industry voices the Festival is packed with over 50 individual sessions covering the most pertinent issues facing the industry from policy to programme making.
The Festival is attended by over 1600 UK and international delegates representing the diverse range of the industry.
www.mgeitf.co.uk /MGEITF/about/about.asp   (135 words)

  
 Netribution > News > Northern Exposure > Scottish Screen Edinburgh Festival
It is also the main sponsor of the Television for Young People Festival, which takes place during the Guardian International Television Festival.
Gas Attack was shot in and around Glasgow using non- professional actors and tells the story of Turkish Kurd asylum seekers housed in high rise flats in the city and their terrifying fight for survival when a deadly virus strikes the group.
Television for Young People (TVYP) runs concurrently with the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on the weekend of 24 - 26 August.
www.netribution.co.uk /news/northern_exposure/79/1.html   (790 words)

  
 Success Stories - BA (Hons) Media Production
Television camera skills won a University of Lincoln student a place at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Darius (21) attended the festival as a Television and Young People Delegate and was one of only 150 aspiring television industry hopefuls to win a place.
The festival is now in its 28th year and is held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
www.lincoln.ac.uk /home/courses/media/undergraduate/media/success-media-prod2.htm   (214 words)

  
 BBC News | Edinburgh Festival | Louise puts media 'on trial'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Louise Woodward is to speak on the subject of "trial by media" at the Edinburgh Festival.
Billed as the first British woman to be tried on live global television, she will take the stage at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on 31 August.
She added that Woodward had not dictated the terms of her appearance, and Mr Scheck would be there in his own right to express his opinions on the issue.
212.58.240.132 /1/low/entertainment/edinburgh_festival/149746.stm   (346 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - Mark Thompson Edinburgh International Television Festival 2005
At last year's festival, I spent most of my time talking about programme strategy and the need, as I saw it, for the BBC to rethink its whole creative direction in the light of the new technologies.
Much is often made of the inevitable long-term decline in overall share to BBC Television as households convert to multi-channel digital TV.
Nonetheless, and despite the rapid strides we've made to date, we believe that on-demand changes the terms of the debate, indeed that it will change what we mean by the word 'broadcasting'.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/speeches/stories/thompson_edinburgh05.shtml   (2967 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - Greg Dyke Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture
Following his death, Pearson Television decided to fund this annual event at the Edinburgh Television Festival and I am very pleased to be this year's Richard Dunn interviewee.
The British television system was founded on the belief that the cultural imperative was more important than the economic.
When 80% of the population can receive digital television - and today that number is 44% and growing fast thanks to Freeview - ITV could simply rent digital capacity from satellite, cable and Freeview operators, and give up its analogue spectrum and most if not all its public service obligations.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/speeches/stories/dyke_richard_dunn.shtml   (3489 words)

  
 BBC News | SCOTLAND | Film festival 'welcomes Clooney'
Last year the festival, which bills itself as a showcase for British films, featured 22 new works, of which four were world premieres.
The Edinburgh Book Festival will also begin on Sunday with US novelist Norman Mailer and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling among the writers expected to talk about their work.
And the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, a gathering of TV professionals, is on this month.
news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/877573.stm   (286 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Edinburgh International Television Festival - Focus is on festival for TV channel of the year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
THE award for the best television channel of the year is to be presented at the Edinburgh International Television Festival later this month.
The festival is expected to attract more than 1600 representatives from television and media organisations around the world.
Sarah Barnett, the festival’s director, said: "The award was set up as a way of recognising all the work that goes into creating a channel, as there was nothing really like that.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=295&id=919382004   (548 words)

  
 Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On the other hand, the scenes of looting — not just of food, which is forgivable, but of television sets and clothing — show that some people are always...
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Watching television reports on disasters may overwhelm younger children.
www.find-entertainment.org /Television.php?I=12345&PC=&ac_id=   (272 words)

  
 Picture Canning Company, Sponsorship and Support, Television and Young People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Television and Young People (TVYP) is the educational arm of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and is the UK's leading forum for young people aspiring to work in television.
If you are aged 18 - 21 and have a passion to work in the television industry, you could be one of the 150 delegates selected to attend five days of masterclasses, workshops, career surgeries and social events.
Other than your travel to and from Edinburgh, all expenses are covered by TVYP.
www.picturecanning.co.uk /sponsorship-tvyp.htm   (184 words)

  
 The Edinburgh festival 2001 -- links
The "official" festival around which the other Edinburgh festivals have developed.
Most comprehensive independent coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001 to be found online.
Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2001 24-26 August
www.edinburghguide.com /festival/fringe/fest_info.shtml   (265 words)

  
 'Text-sex' Rebecca set to call in for Television Festival - macintyre.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The £431 million Holyrood building will host a debate on the future of the arts as part of the week-long festival, which aims to be more accessible and more affordable than the main festivals.
According to People’s Festival organisers, there will be folk music in Leith, stand-up comedy in Gorgie and theatre in Gilmerton when the event runs from August 7-14.
A film night is also planned in Newcraighall before the festival finishes with a night of traditional Scots music and a ceilidh in Portobello.
www.macintyre.com /content/view/369/0   (322 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festivals - Two women in the media spotlight will speak at TV festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Edinburgh Festivals - Two women in the media spotlight will speak at TV festival
TWO outspoken women - the sister of OJ Simpson’s murdered wife and David Beckham’s former personal assistant, Rebecca Loos - will be appearing at this year’s Edinburgh television festival.
It was announced yesterday they will take part in debates on the future of the TV industry being held at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, taking place from August 27 to 29.
www.edinburgh-festivals.com /news.cfm?id=804012004   (420 words)

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