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  BBC Radio 4 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
Radio 4 is the second most popular British domestic radio station after Radio 2, and was awarded "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2004 Sony Radio Academy Awards for the second year running.
Radio 4 came into existence on 30 September 1967, when the BBC re-launched all of its domestic radio stations under new names.
open-encyclopedia.com /BBC_Radio_4   (282 words)

  
 BBC Radio 1 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
BBC Radio 1 is a (The people of Great Britain) British (Station for the production and transmission of radio broadcasts) radio station, specialising in (Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)) popular music aimed at a young audience (children, teenagers and young adults).
Radio 1 was launched at 7am on September 30, 1967 as a direct response to the popularity of illegal (Click link for more info and facts about pirate radio) pirate radio stations such as (Click link for more info and facts about Radio Caroline) Radio Caroline.
Radio 1 is notable for the range of music it plays.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/BB/BBC_Radio_12.htm   (866 words)

  
 Television Details, Meaning Television Article and Explanation Guide
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.
In this sense, it is an extension of radio.
In the United Kingdom, the major national broadcaster is the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), commercial broadcasters include ITV (Independent Television), Channel 4 and Channel 5, as well as the satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.
www.e-paranoids.com /t/te/television.html   (3957 words)

  
 Tom Lord - The Jazz Discography - Catalog of Jazz Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Musty lists, the creation of which takes up the largest part of someone's life, had a moribund quality in contrast to the vitality of the music that they dissected.
Ingenious use of the computer medium brings the work to life, and it is transformed from being 'lists' into becoming an account in recording terms of every musician, leader or sideman, that jazz has ever harboured.
A tendency to focus on the latest star arrival, to list the current levels of sales, to emphasize annual award giving, has for the most part taken precedence over the sort of detailed, long-range views that are common to the classical worlds of music, art, dance, etc.
www.lordisco.com /reviews.html   (2619 words)

  
 JISC inform 7
Sarah Knight, who manages the programme, says the case studies and other research were designed with the Department for Education and Skills' e-learning strategy consultation in mind.
Helen Beetham, consultant to the programme, who is looking at models of e-learning, says case studies are central to her research.
She puts much of the success of the programme down to collaboration such as this.
www.jisc.ac.uk /index.cfm?name=pub_inform7   (7506 words)

  
 P A L
He reformed BBC Young Musicians, extending it beyond the popular search to find some of Britain's most talented young musicians by giving young composers and conductors the chance to work with the BBC Philharmonic and looking at music therapy and jazz.
More recently, Hilary has worked as Head of Programmes at the New Opportunities Fund and is now Programme Director for Education at the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, where she has helped to set up a number of arts education initiatives.
Back at the BBC, he was a director on the landmark series People's Century and filmed and directed the BBC documentary An Island in Time.
www.pallabs.org /people.php   (5432 words)

  
 fRoots Netrooting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
On Spydaradio, a weekly three hour internet radio show presented by Paul Sherratt, dedicated to the best in both new and old roots music.
The best place to keep up with programme details of BBC 4 TV's regular world and folk concert broadcasts, which are often not available at the time we go to press.
BBC Radio 3 - BBC Radio 3's World Music pages.
www.frootsmag.com /content/issue/netroot   (3079 words)

  
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The existing broadcasters Channels 3, 4, 5 and the BBC are guaranteed places on the multiplexes for their existing services, 'which they will run simultaneously with their analogue services.
The code needs to identify "the extent to which digital programme services and qualifying Services should promote the understanding and enjoyment by persons who are blind or partially sighted, of the programmes to be included in such services, and the means by which such understanding and enjoyment should be promoted".
The main provision is that "at least 10% of so much of the service as consists of programmes which are not excluded programmes in relation to audio description for the blind is to be accompanied by such audio description".
www.washear.org /fccc.htm   (10349 words)

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