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  Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Television
Development of cable and satellite means of distribution in the 1970s pushed businessmen to target channels towards a certain audience, and enabled the rise of subscription-based television channels, such as HBO and Sky.
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).
As a result, up until at least the mid-1970s, television stations would air announcements reminding viewers to unplug their sets before going to bed for the night, since the heat build-up in the back of the set was a not inconsiderable fire hazard.
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Television   (4659 words)

  
 Are National Television Systems Obsolete?
When Katz says that television is dead, he means television of the broadcast era when a monopoly system dominated by three major networks, or a government sponsored "public interest" channel delivered programs to viewers in their living rooms.
The experience of viewing television used to be comparable to a holiday like Passover or Christmas, when groups gathered to focus on a shared symbol or myth, made ritual conversation, and knew that others in the society were doing the same.
The proliferation of channels and choices, and especially the advent of new systems for recording, archiving and replaying material may be returning us to the sense that television is a personalized and atomized technology.
web.mit.edu /comm-forum/forums/television_obsolete.html   (4452 words)

  
 Television Information - plasma television
Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image.
Television usage in the United States skyrocketed after World War II with the lifting of the manufacturing freeze, war-related technological advances, the gradual expansion of the television networks westward, plasma television sales the drop in set prices caused by mass production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income.
Recently television listings "widescreen" has spread from television to computing where both desktop and laptop computers are commonly equipped with widescreen displays, and it remains to be seen whether Work or movie enjoyment will take over.
www.inanot.com /Ina-Electronics_Topics_T-/Television.html   (6588 words)

  
 Television
In 1907–1910, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin demonstrated a television system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner in the transmitter and the electronic Braun tube (cathode ray tube) in the receiver.
European colour television was developed somewhat later, in the 1960s, and was hindered by a continuing division on technical standards.
Nigeria was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce television, in 1959, followed by Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1961, while Zanzibar was the first in Africa to introduce colour television, in 1973.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/t/te/television.html   (3478 words)

  
 Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Television was introduced to Australia in 1956, in time to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
The ABC operates a single nationwide TV channel, ABC TV, often known as Channel 2 due to the analogue frequency on which it operates in the state capitals, and the names of the commercial networks in those cities.
It is of little interest to domestic Australian audiences as most of its material has already been broadcast or is broadcast simultaneously on the easier to receive domestic ABC networks.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=3079   (1689 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A mechanically-scanned analogue television system was first demonstrated in London in February 1924 by John Logie Baird with an image of Felix the Cat and a moving picture by Baird on October 30, 1925.
As a result, up until at least the mid-1970s, television stations would air announcements reminding viewers to unplug their sets before going to bed for the night, since the heat build-up in the back of the set was a considerable fire hazard.
In its infancy, television was an ephemeral medium.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Television   (7475 words)

  
 Melbourne, Florida
The Heidelberg School, arguably the first distinctly Australian art movement (in the Western canon, at least), was largely the work of Melbourne-based artists, and many of its most significant works hang in the National Gallery of Victoria.
The three commercial television channels and the ABC produce a nightly news bulletin in Melbourne, and the Seven network produces one edition of its current affairs show Today Tonight there.
Channel 31 is a public access television station which screens mostly foreign-language television for migrant communities, and amateur lifestyle programs.
www.creekin.net /c1262-n213-melbourne-florida.html   (2284 words)

  
 A List Apart: Articles: All the Access Money Can Buy
Audio description will be required on U.S. television in coming years (though a lawsuit has been filed against such mandates).
We also see a tendency to replicate the constraints of television (where a single signal has to serve everyone, forcing access features into hiding) when what we can actually do online is serve up multiple versions of the same file with various access features pre-enabled.
The U.S. military is required by §402 of the Americans with Disabilities Act to caption its television commercials even though a deaf or hard-of-hearing person would never be admitted to any branch of the forces.
www.alistapart.com /stories/alltheaccess   (3137 words)

  
 FanDominion: Television Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It is slated to begin airing on the cable channel next winter (late 2006 or early 2007).
Known as the last of the great TV cowboys playing cowboy-hat wearing heroes well into the 1980s, among science fiction and fantasy fans, Weaver may be best known for a single work; a little movie-of-the-week that wowwed critics and audiences alike back in 1971.
According to the January Sci Fi channel schedule, reruns of former Fox series John Doe will be added to the cable network's Friday night lineup at 7/6c p.m..
www.fandominion.com /news/television   (5615 words)

  
 Shanghaiist: Television Archives
Probably not the best word choice by Xinhua for their headline, but they do list the highest-paid Chinese actresses, based on annual salary (they say their source was cfi.net.cn).
In yet another example of television wreaking havoc, HAVOC we say, on all of society, the China Daily reports that a boy of 13 has confessed to savagely murdering his cousin, aunt and grandmother in rural Hebei Province.
This year, with the introduction of prime-time televised games, we thought surely ESPN Asia would show these games on Sunday mornings (instead of the usual snooker or cheerleading), but that doesn't seem to be the case.
www.shanghaiist.com /archives/television   (4683 words)

  
 Television network - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations.
Germany's many other TV channels are not networks since they do not consist of individual stations but brodcast identical contents, nationwide or within their single local area.
Access to the Republic's stations (but in particular RTÉ) in Northern Ireland was a requirement of the Good Friday Agreement peace deal in 1998.
www.internet-encyclopedia.com /ie/t/te/television_network.html   (372 words)

  
 Sydney : Exploring Essential Information, Data and Explanation.
Australian Labor Party (ALP), which also controlled the State Government.
University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Western Sydney, and one of the campuses of the Australian Catholic University.
This is a partial list of Sydney suburbs and satellite cities.
www.llpoh.org /Styles_and_Architecture_2/Sydney.html   (1829 words)

  
 Guides Television Arts
Television movies for the week of Dec. 3Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 10 hours ago...
This was done in the form of television programme tagged ?Let's Talk About AIDS...
- Listing TV stations that provide live and pre-recorded tv broadcasting on the net from across the United States and around the world.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Television/Guides   (713 words)

  
 Christian Television Programming - Free Christian Television, 22 TV Channels (Higher Praise TV)
Streaming Faith The God Channel, a Full Gospel Ministry that teaches the Bible is the infallible Word of God and Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Cornerstone Television is a viewer-supported ministry absolutely committed to using television as a force for good.
The Church Channel is a multi-denominational religious network that will feature church service programs 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
www.higherpraise.com /Television.htm   (868 words)

  
 New order makes four add up to 12 for favoured free-to-airs and ABC | Matthew Stevens | The Australian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The effect of Coonan's shift of thinking on digital TV is that, from sometime next year, the three networks and the ABC will be able to run two television channels, one analogue and the other digital.
Because at the same time as the steady move to digital erodes the value of Foxtel's pay-TV franchise, the Government continues to ring-fence the value of the FTA networks by allowing a steady expansion of their offerings and refusing to issue any new licences.
Currently, the difference between free and pay-TV is stark, given that Foxtel offers a digital service with bundles of different channels while the FTA is currently limited to one analogue and one digital channel, which each deliver the same programming.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19781085-5001641,00.html   (733 words)

  
 The Big Picture: Television
On the news side, a ratings slide is blamed on the political cycle, the decline in President Bush's popularity, and a plain old political burnout.
In Q2, the No. 1 cable news channel’s primetime schedule has dropped 22% in its core 25-54 demo and 8% in total viewers.
While viewing of traditional broadcast TV is down dramatically in recent years, people are spending a lot more time watching cable and satellite channels, lifting overall household viewing over the past decade.
bigpicture.typepad.com /comments/television/index.html   (7449 words)

  
 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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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 Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Television Characters
For several years now I have been trying to compile a list of television programs that have included gay/lesbian/bisexual characters as a part of their regular (or semi-regular) casts.
To be listed a character should have appeared in at least three episodes and be explicitly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered.
For the purposes of this list, a character is described as `recurring' if he or she has appeared in at least three (3) episodes.
home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/tv-characters.html   (1978 words)

  
 TV | NEWS.com.au Entertainment
THIS year will go down as one of the hardest-fought years in television ratings in decades, with the Nine Network just coming in ahead of Seven.
AUSTRALIAN Idol host James Mathison has a recurring nightmare.
Check in on our handy list of sites across a variety of TV-related categories.
www.news.com.au /entertainment/television   (140 words)

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