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  Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The earliest television sets were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube with a mechanically spinning disk (the Nipkow disk, invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) that produced a red postage-stamp size image.
Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over radio waves in the VHF and UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a television set).
Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents is raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
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 List of United States over-the-air television networks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the case of the smallest networks, the signal may be sent to just a dozen or fewer stations.
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (formerly NBC Blue) The nation's third-largest commercial network, ABC has over 200 affiliate stations and airs original programming seven days a week.
Deutsche Welle (DW TV) A German noncommercial television service which provides some English-language news programming to public broadcasting stations, and whose programming feed can be seen on a small number of independent public-broadcasting stations for part of their broadcast day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_American_television_networks   (1166 words)

  
 Wikinfo | CBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
CBS is a major radio and television network in the United States.
CBS was one of the three commercial television networks that dominated broadcasting in the United States before the rise of cable television.
This radio network lost money in its first year, and on January 18 1929 Columbia Records sold out its interests in the radio network to a group of private investors for US$400,000, headed by William S. Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer.
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 NBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is a United States television broadcasting and cable company, including the NBC television network, the Telemundo Spanish language broadcast television network, the CNBC, MSNBC and Bravo cable channels, and a group of owned-and-operated television stations.
The WEAF stations and network would become known as the NBC Red network, the WJZ stations and network would be dubbed the NBC Blue network.
From 1956 through 1970, the television broadcast team of Chet Huntley[?] and David Brinkley consistently exceeded the viewership levels attained by CBS News and its main anchor Walter Cronkite.
www.city-search.org /nb/nbc.html   (1506 words)

  
 Television and the Humanities
The author states that television is a natural part of the humanities in that it is concerned with literature and learning in human culture (Oxford English Dictionary definition of the humanities).
For a class studying television and the humanities, it would be a valuable source for the instructor or the students, in picking a research topic, for example.
Television is much to blame for this trivial culture which has resulted in a lack of public discourse, one of the elements of the humanities.
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 Columbia Broadcasting System : CBS
This radio network lost money in its first year, and on January 18, 1929 Columbia Records sold out its interests in the radio network to a group of private investors for US$400,000, headed by William Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer.
It was characteristic of him that Gaynor, from the list of his visits to Mrs.
Vervain: the special Vervain than an engraved dinner invitation is like a personal was now returning to the scene of that episode; and it was because skilfully as the interview itself that, at her corner, he had.
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 Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV 2003-2004
The Parents Television Council announced its choices for the Top Ten Best and Worst Shows for family viewing on prime time broadcast television for the 2005-2006 season and found that the top three worst shows for families - The War at Home, The Family Guy, and American Dad - are packaged as family shows.
Network executives should be ashamed and millions of families should be offended at their actions."
The lists are ranked based on the content of the program and the appropriateness of the show for children.
www.parentstv.org /PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/main.asp   (2881 words)

  
 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
Today, a national networking capability is no longer necessary for a profitable television venture, and the old distinctions between “channel” (i.e., local programming) and “network” (national programming) have been erased.
A brief description of broadcast structure and history is also included, and many entries also contain a brief list of major shows and their subject matter.
An introduction to the work provides a concise history of the television industry, discussing major differences in the development of Canadian and American networks with special emphasis on the role of the government in each.
www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2096-0   (242 words)

  
 Television: Bob Hope and American Variety (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The variety show was a common format in early television, in part because many of the performers were vaudevillians with vast experience performing live on stage, and most early television was broadcast live.
The sale of thousands of television sets in the late 1940s and early 1950s has been attributed to the vast popularity of the early TV variety show featuring vaudevillian Milton Berle.
Although Hope had presided over television's inaugural West Coast broadcast in 1947, his NBC debut on April 9, 1950, was his first national television appearance.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/bobhope/tv.html   (1222 words)

  
 A U. S. Television Chronology, 1875-1970
The term television is coined by Constantin Perskyi at the International Electricity Congress, part of the 1900 Paris Exhibition (Tube: The Invention of Television by David E Fisher and Marshall Jon Fisher, p.
First use of videotape in network television programming: CBS uses its first Ampex VTR to be installed at Television City, Los Angeles, to record the evening news (then anchored by Douglas Edwards) and in turn, feeds the tape to West Coast stations three hours later.
First live network transmission of TV pictures from inside a manned U.S. space capsule in orbit: Apollo 7 There were six such broadcasts during their eleven-day mission.
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 The Networks
The Television News Entertainment Networks have foregone news reporting and have become a platform for opinion, gossip and fortune telling.
A quick note on the networks web sites: There is a distinct difference between the TV coverage and the stories reported on the web sites of some of the networks.
yesterday and intending to show that the performance characteristics of banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance characteristics of firearms not on the banned list.
www.tvnewslies.org /html/the_networks.html   (2417 words)

  
 Lists of television channels - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
List of Portuguese language television channels, includes Brazil and the Americas.
AFN American Forces Network, broadcasts worldwide via satellite, only available to US Forces and their families, but is available in South Korea.
SBN - The Saigon Broadcasting Network is a US-based 24/7 Vietnamese cable network, also known as SBTN.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/List_of_television_channels   (516 words)

  
 Television (Harpers.org)
South African television broadcast a 1998 training video showing fl prisoners being mauled repeatedly by police dogs as they begged for mercy; six white policemen were arrested shortly thereafter.
Slobodan Milosevic was interviewed on Yugoslav television: “I can sleep peacefully,” he said, “and my conscience is completely clear.” Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was spending peaceful days at his country house, strolling in the garden, playing with his grandchildren.
American Eagle TV was laying plans for a cable channel that would broadcast continuous live coverage of an American eagle family.
www.harpers.org /Television.html   (2275 words)

  
 Networks (on ArtsFizz.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A part-time cable network bringing the best of progressive television to nearly seven million homes weekly.
National network using digital technology to offers news, current events, and culture stories, including first-run documentaries on global issues, current affairs series, international news, classic foreign feature films, and world music.
List of affiliates, as well as information on programming and advertising.
www.artsfizz.com /Television/Networks   (277 words)

  
 Columbia Broadcasting System - Sneaknews.com :: Newsleads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Redirected from CBS The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is a major radio and television network in the USA.
What became CBS was founded in 1927 as a joint venture by Columbia Records and New York City talent agent Arthur Judson[?].
(The NBC Red and CBS radio networks are now both part of Westwood One[?], a unit of Infinity Broadcasting[?], owned by Viacom, which also owns CBS Television.)
www.sneaknews.com /econtents/cb/CBS.html   (528 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Television
This site was created in connection with a public television documentary about assistive technology and its impact on the lives of people with disabilities.
Extensive list of TV related links including sites on current and past shows, actors and actresses of TV fame, TV Usenet newsgroups, on-line TV and cable zines, as well as a section devoted to Commercials.
A nostalgic tribute to the history of television, from the advent of the medium until the present day.
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 List of United States broadcast television networks... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 NBC
NBC's logo is an abstraction of a peacock to indicate richness in color.
AT&T found a ready buyer in RCA, whose primary business was radio broadcasting and manufacturing, the a deal was struck where RCA would buy WEAF and gain the rights to rent AT&T's phone lines to transmit radio programs between cities.
While the chimes and an hourly newscast still appear on radio at certain times on weekdays, the NBC Radio Network as a programming service ceased to exist in 1989 and simply became a marketing brand name for programming produced by Westwood One.
www.freearchive.info /nb/nbc.html   (1498 words)

  
 MyDoom virus declared worst ever | CNET News.com
F-Secure estimated that the worm was accounting for 20 percent to 30 percent of worldwide e-mail traffic Wednesday, putting it well ahead of previous nasties, such as the SoBig.F worm.
F-Secure credited the worm's fast spread to several factors, including aggressive harvesting of e-mail addresses and the fact that it was released in the middle of the North American workday, giving it several hours to spread unchecked among corporate networks.
Infection rates were averaging one out of every 10 messages for large customers and one out of three for small customers, indicating that the virus concentrates on PCs in the home, where security precautions are often less stringent than in the office.
news.com.com /2100-7349-5149764.html   (920 words)

  
 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
List non-endemic ant species introduced to Great Britain and Ireland
List of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom
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 Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Today's advertisers can embrace the power of "One TV World" to efficiently market their brands on some of the best developed TV brands today.
You turned to Cable first and increased its dollar volume (+17%) versus the previous Upfront, while you held volume flat for Broadcast.
The study was fielded to understand viewers' relationship with television and how people's attitudes, actions and usage of both the Broadcast and Cable networks have changed.
www.onetvworld.org   (387 words)

  
 Lists of television channels : Television channels
3 List of major television channels with worldwide distribution
List of major television channels with worldwide distribution
Euronews - news television, mainly broadcasted in Europe
www.fastload.org /te/Television_channels.html   (102 words)

  
 Food Network
Angela, a self-proclaimed "Super Mom," is hoping to encourage others to start cooking with their kids.
Beverly, a single woman who is often frustrated by our large portion market, hopes to help other singletons succeed in the kitchen.
Evette wants to help Food Network viewers spice up their cooking repertoire with sizzling Latin American flavors.
www.foodnetwork.com /food/show_nf_vote   (125 words)

  
 African American Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Racial identity is not mentioned unless the subject's race is key to his other achievements (e.g., such that Bill Cosby was the first African American to star in a network television program, or that Toni Morrison's work draws from and celebrates African Americans in history).
Extensive list of web sources on African American literature, a selected bibliography of materials available in the Middle Tennessee State University library, with links to author information on the internet, and more.
An exhaustive list of writers from many centuries and countries, although the focus is on English writers.
www.bluefield.wvnet.edu /library/afamlinks.htm   (3669 words)

  
 3-D TV Is Closer Than You Think - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
And although it sounds more sci-fi than Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people), engineers who are working on bringing this technology to the masses say it should arrive within the next ten years.
Executives from all of these companies expect 3-D TV to be mainstream within a decade and intend to somehow be a part of it.
In fact, until television starts filming in 3-D, the industry already has software that can convert a regular two-dimensional TV broadcast into 3-D. "Our [conversion] software is by no means perfect," says Dimension co-founder Jesse Eichenlaub.
www.forbes.com /infoimaging/2004/05/05/cx_pp_05053dtv_ii.html   (1253 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Television: Networks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Golden Sports Television - Broadcasts events from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, including football, college football, baseball, basketball, hockey, boxing, wrestling, roller derby, championship bowling.
Smart Digital Television - Live Internet feeds from dozens of networks around the world, as well as links to their Web sites.
World Colours Television Network - Focus on acceptance and diversity programming and media education.
www.dmoz.org /Arts/Television/Networks   (303 words)

  
 TeeVee.org: Their country trained them to kill--now they're killing time writing about television.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
I can’t understand why every network isn’t doing this with all of their shows.
Since it’s difficult to fast-forward through, the networks could even subsidize it with advertising, if they were feeling particularly greedy.
Well, there’s news: episodes from Da Vinci’s seven seasons are airing in syndication throughout the U.S. to surprisingly good ratings, so if you don’t receive the CBC, check your local listings for a dose of Nick Campbell and some of the sharpest television crime drama ever produced.
www.teevee.org   (2258 words)

  
 Royal Television Society - Home
The RTS Craft & Design Awards cover the huge variety of skills and processes involved in programme production, from art direction to lighting, and costume design to digital effects.
Read on for a full list of all the nominations and awards and for a booking form.
Dawn Airey, Managing Director, Sky Networks, Emily Bell, Editor-in-Chief, Guardian Unlimited and the legendary Greg Dyke: three of broadcasting’s most outspoken and entertaining commentators come together to give the RTS their individual takes on the world of television 2005.
www.rts.org.uk   (171 words)

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