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	MDA (television) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MDA is an Australian television show which has aired on the ABC since 2002.
		MDA premiered in 2002 during a downturn in the making of Australian television.
		Although a strong industry through to the mid-1990s, the turn of the century saw less and less Australian television produced, largely due to the cost outweighing the return (largely blamed on audiences being more interested in programming from Britain and the United States).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MDA_(television) (1456 words)

	Hard calls - www.theage.com.au
		MDA doesn't go in for generic revolution or stylistic variation; it breaks rules in its own quiet way, with stories that are morally unclear, with characters who face real ethical questions, and with outcomes that are rarely happy and never straightforward.
		It's a tough call, and MDA puts its audience in the relatively unusual position of not only facing moral and ethical questions, but of having to ponder them once the show's hour has passed, a rare treat when so much television drama is ultimately disposable.
		MDA script editor Rob George feels that this is one of the show's strongest elements: "I think the central dynamic of the show is the moral dilemmas faced by both sides.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/11/1068329554043.html (757 words)

	Chapter3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Television correspondents are very conscious of what their viewers will see behind them when doing their 'pieces-to-camera.' Generally speaking, the more activity the better.
		But if television is still regarded as the most powerful medium in terms of its ability to influence public opinion and the Internet is changing everything, newspapers have yet to lose their importance as the medium of record.
		The average television sound bite is probably about 10 seconds; perhaps three or four sentences of what you say to a newspaper reporter might end up in print.
	www.ifrc.org /publicat/commsguide/html/Three/CHAPTER3B.htm (4143 words)

	Detroit's WB! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Last year the Telethon was more successful than we had hoped in raising money for the MDA, and continuing the tradition of being one of the "Top 10 Telethon Tote boards" in the country.
		The MDA Telethon offers all of us an opportunity to exemplify the spirit of cooperation and community stewardship that is a big part of our heritage as broadcasters.
		MDA combats neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive medical and community services, and far-reaching professional and public health education.
	www.wb20detroit.com /community/whereweare_list.asp?id=4132 (177 words)

	American Journalism Review
		Later, MDA officials apologized to state agencies for what they called the "inconvenience." Gerald C. Weinberg, the MDA's director of field organization, explains that the week before the telethon was the organization's busiest time of year.
		MDA officials say the series greatly damaged their fund raising, causing "droves of people" to call and write to say they would not contribute or honor their pledges.
		MDA officials acknowledge that they refused repeated requests from Piastro for interviews based on the first four columns of her series.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=2094 (631 words)

	MDA Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		EDT today, Lewis, MDA’s national chairman and star of the Telethon, said he was thrilled to have again fulfilled his annual goal of surpassing the previous Telethon’s total ($58.3 million in 2002) by at least $1.
		MDA receives no grants or fees from clients and therefore, relies solely on the support of private contributors and the business community.
		The boys, who have attended an MDA clinic in their home state of New Jersey, are now honor students in eighth grade.
	www.tonyorlandoonline.com /mdapress.htm (1354 words)

	Golf To Curtail Some Stations' Jerry Lewis Telethon - PGATOUR.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BOSTON (AP) Television stations in some areas of the country plan to air a PGA tournament instead of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon's final hours, a time telethon organizers say is crucial to their fund-raising.
		Mackle said the MDA - and Jerry Lewis personally - had tried, but failed to persuade ABC-TV and PGA not to schedule the tournament broadcast during the telethon, which is in its 38th year.
		Mackle said the MDA was hoping the curtailment of a few hours on some stations wouldn't crimp donations.
	www.golfweb.com /u/wire/stories/0,1977,6585303,00.html (664 words)

	ABC Asia Pacific - Television - Program - MDA - Text Only
		MDA is a medical defence and indemnity organisation.
		In times of trouble, it is the case managers at MDA who are a doctor ' best friend; dedicated, often passionate in their defence of those doctors who stand accused of wrongdoing.
		Among the big negligence claims against MDA members is one involving a highly contentious contemporary issue -the responsibilities of IVF doctors and "babies".
	abcasiapacific.com /guide/00000538_to.htm (492 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Association \| Remembering Mattie Stepanek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Also during the service, teenage singing sensation and MDA National Youth Chairman Billy Gilman performed the song “For Our World.” The song was from the album “Music Through Heartsongs” that the two teens collaborated on last year and sets Mattie’s words to music.
		Three helicopters from the major television networks buzzed overhead while covering the memorial events, and dozens of media satellite and microwave trucks were at the scene.
		The 2004 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Sept. 5-6, will be dedicated to Mattie, and MDA employees nationwide observed a moment of silence at 11 a.m.
	www.mdausa.org /mattie/remember.cfm (1040 words)

	MDA \| The Ross Report
		In addition, MDA clients, clinic directors, local research grantees and others in the MDA family are interviewed live on the air.
		Through the MDA Broadcast Journalism Awards, our Association is able to acknowledge and honor some of the truly outstanding local material produced each year by our MDA “Love Network” stations.
		Station general managers and staff, including producers of local Telethon broadcasts, often come to have a strong emotional investment in the work MDA does, which is reinforced by their personal contact with the children and adults MDA serves.
	www.mdausa.org /ross/index041108.html (925 words)

	Indiantelevision.com's Breaking News : New heights set for Asia Media Festival 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Encouraged by the enthusiastic response, the MDA and Reed Exhibitions are confident of staging a more exciting event this year.
		The MDA will continue to host the festival as it adds to the vibrancy of the media scene, moving Singapore another step closer towards our vision as a global media city.
		This year's 8th Asian Television Awards, a prestigious award ceremony designed to recognise and rewards creative excellence in the region is star studded.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k3/oct/oct241.htm (977 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version
		Even though the MDA's approval came attached with conditions, which require the merged entity to outsource 285 hours of local content production to independent production houses, these undertakings are limited only to safeguarding competition in the market for television programme production.
		With the impending closure of Channel i, television viewers, primarily those in the market for free-to-air English language television programmes, will be deprived of their only present alternative to MediaCorp's programmes.
		Viewers may recall the pre-2000 television era when Science Fiction and other niche free-to-air English television programmes were shunted to the midnight timeslots.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=18726 (1010 words)

	Australian Television: MDA: episode guide
		As senior case manager at MDA, she is in her element as a passionate advocate for doctors.
		MDA and Richard Savage actually work together to sort out an angry and guilty young man, who is desperate to blame a palliative care doctor for the loss of his father, who suffered from cancer.
		Ella and the MDA team must move fast when the case of young mother Debbie Shanahan, dying of cancer, is brought forward.
	www.australiantelevision.net /mda/series1.html (2439 words)

	Where are the viewers? - General - In Depth - theage.com.au
		The accents on television drama are often American or British, and the programs that have something to say about Australian culture in fresh or distinctive ways are all but non-existent.
		An Australian Film Commission survey on feature film and television drama production says spending on local drama production has plummeted, from a peak of $393 million in 2000-01 to $222 million in 2003-04, the lowest level in 10 years.
		In the past year, ABC managing director Russell Balding and director of television Sandra Levy have said the organisation might soon not be able to afford to make drama at all.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/07/22/1121539146746.html (2839 words)

	The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon Official Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MDA sponsors raise funds year-round to help make possible our worldwide research effort and our vast array of services.
		Television has few traditions as strongly ingrained as the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon.
		The 2005 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is the 40th annual show in the Labor Day weekend series.
	mdatest.mdausa.org /telethon (459 words)

	John O'Brien - Scriptwriter: Behind Closed Doors: MDA
		In 2000, he won an AWGIE for his seven part drama series, 'Bondi Banquet' and in 1999, for his television feature, 'A Wreak, A Tangle'.
		And for MDA someone else was actually writing the first one but came down with a vile bug and was laid up for a month, so I had to take over.
		Ella was certainly the most difficult to engage with because she has more warmth and sympathy and yet still has to have that cool realism that any doctor develops toward pain and suffering.
	www.abc.net.au /mda/behind/john.htm (660 words)

	Welcome to the Mobile Data Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although there are no pre-requisites required to join the MDA, we ask that all members are involved in providing products or services relating to mobile data.
		The cost depends on the number of employees (subscription bands are as follows: £600 per annum for companies with up to 25 employees, £1200 for companies employing between 25 and 100 people, and for companies with over 100 employees, the subscription costs £2000) Subscriptions are renewable annually and have not increased since 1998.
		There are links on the MDA website (www.mda-mobiledata.org) to these bodies.
	www.mda-mobiledata.org /MDA/Page_Resource_FAQ.asp (1086 words)

	Moviehole.net - 'Japanese' crowd do well at AFI Awards
		In the television category, After The Deluge and MDA shared the honours, winning three awards each.
		MDA won the Holding Redlich AFI Award for Best Drama Series (Denny Lawrence), Max Factor AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama or Comedy (Angie Milliken) and KMPG AFI Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Television Drama or Comedy (Shane Bourne).
		Yet another special accolade of the evening was reserved for Ted Robinson, who was awarded the Longford Life Achievement Award for his major contribution to Australian television as the Producer/Director of a long slate of Australia’s most significant satiric television comedy.
	www.moviehole.net /news/2765.html (918 words)

	MDA's annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raises $54.9 million - Reality TV World - News, information, episode ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This year's MDA Telethon fell short of the $59.4 million raised last year to fund muscular dystrophy research and services, but under the circumstances Lewis called it a success.
		The telethon originated from The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., and was broadcast on nearly 200 TV stations throughout the United States and Canada.
		During the telecast, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Lewis with its Governors Award, in recognition of his work for the MDA.
	www.realitytvworld.com /index/articles/story.php?s=1004468 (480 words)

	CASBAA
		The two premier Awards were given to the channels that won the greatest number of Awards and received the most runners-up and highly commended certificates.
		The Asian Television Awards are an important component of the Asia Media Festival, the MDA says.
		The annual Asian Television Awards were launched in 1996 to recognise and reward programming and production excellence in Asia.
	www.casbaa.com /news_releases/news_content.asp?news_id=456 (735 words)

	Australian Television Information Archive
		“An Australian study by research group IDC reveals that high-definition televisions (HDTVs), portable MP3 players and the Sony PSP are the "most hyped video, audio and gaming technologies" of the holiday season, with the highest number of survey respondents indicating plans to buy these devices.”
		After decades in which Australia's television networks all but switched themselves off over summer, sanity has prevailed...
		The commercial networks have responded to calls from advertisers who demand a year-round platform and frustrated consumers who are now able to download shows from the US.
	www.australiantelevision.net (690 words)

	Latest News!!! Maureen McGovern Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Her first musical role was Maria in The Sound of Music, she appeared as Nellie in South Pacific, and she recently portrayed Anna in the national tour of The King and I, a childhood dream come true.
		MDA Shamrocks Against Dystrophy Chairperson Maureen McGovern reminds everyone to participate in the nation’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day charity event this week.
		She is a volunteer for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and also serves as: a National Vice president, the National Chairperson of the Dermatomyositis/ Polymyositis Division of MDA and the National Chairperson of the MDA Shamrocks Against Dystrophy Campaign.
	www.maureenmcgovern.com /pictures/latnews3.htm (9046 words)

	MDA: Medical Defence Australia
		MDA Series 3 returns on ABC TV June 30
		Catch up on the stories you may have missed from the award winning second series of MDA
		Tell your friends all about MDA by sending them an e-card with your favourite character...
	www.abc.net.au /mda (93 words)

	Business Wire: Avicena Group, Carolinas Neuromuscular/ALS-MDA ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Avicena Group, Inc. and the Carolinas Neuromuscular/ALS-MDA Center are featured on the national television series "Healthy Solutions" hosted by Emmy-award winning actress Mariette Hartley.
		"Healthy Solutions," now in its seventh season, is an award-winning television series which explores the most important issues related to America's health and well being.
		The series is produced and paid for by TV Interactive, an international leader in the production and distribution of multi-media television programming.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:89415638&refid=holomed_1 (593 words)

	POPplanet :: MDA Receives International Emmy Nom :: Australian Movie Reviews :: Australian Film News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ABC TV's highly acclaimed drama series, MDA: Medical Defence Australia, has been nominated for an Emmy at the 31st International Emmy Award press conference held in Cannes, France at MIPCOM (October 10, 2003).
		MDA, produced by Screentime in association with ABC TV (screening Wednesdays at 9.30pm), is the only Australian drama series to be nominated for an Emmy, in what is widely recognised as the most extensive worldwide judging process of any international television award ceremony.
		Director of Television Sandra Levy said today: ¿We are delighted MDA has received such international recognition in the best drama category.
	www.popplanet.biz /story.jsp?id=290 (203 words)

	SatelliteGuys.US - Us$20 Million High-Definition Collaboration In Singapore
		On the opening day of this year's MIPCOM, Rainbow HD Holdings LLC (Rainbow), Mega Media Pte Ltd. (Mega Media) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) have announced a partnership to create $20 million USD worth of HD programs over the next three years.
		Christopher Chia, Chief Executive Officer, the MDA says the new collaboration will further add to the development of Singapore's thriving media scene.
		All high definition programming created through the partnership will be jointly owned by Rainbow, Mega Media and the MDA, growing the programming distribution revenue potential of the organizations.
	www.satelliteguys.us /showthread.php?t=104401&goto=newpost (744 words)

	Omega Recent Projects_4, DVD Live Concert Music Video Event HD Shoots EPK Recording Entertainment Services
		The result was a rip roaring show shot over two days and slotted to be shown as anchor footage during this year's MDA Telethon.
		Coe performed his older hits as well as six new selections for the record and video, which will be released this spring.
		Local Television Facilities were provided by Dallas based AMS Productions, along with Dallas' Grip Services, In the Light, Inc. Billy Bob's Production Manager Robert Gallager coordinated the event, as did Billy Bob's Martin "Dirt" Stinnett and Carman Stinnett.
	www.omegalive.com /body_press4.html (1904 words)

	Mariah Carey Lookalike MDA Fundraiser
		Loads of Performances, Funrasiers, Television appearances,Various parties and much more to mention.
		Always updating this section with the latest pictures of the events Laura has done.
		Read how Laura got started as a celebrity look-a-like and what she has been up to since...
	www.homestead.com /laurasmariah/zandri99.html (195 words)

	About Us - Drama with a Difference, Drama Schools, Victoria, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Her television credits include: Holly’s Heroes, Stingers, Salem’s Lot, The Secret Life of Us, Blue Heelers, Lost World, Halifax fp, Something in the Air (series 1 and 2), Beast Master, Fearless, Flipper, Murder Call, Tales of the South Seas, Medivac (series 1 and 2), Pacific Drive, Home and Away, GP, Heartland, Neighbours and Richmond Hill.
		Packed with interviews from celebrated members of the Australian film and television industry, it covers all an actor needs to know before they face a professional film and television set.
		The interviewees talk about what they need from the actor, the terminology that an actor is expected to know when entering a studio, how to master their camera technique, what their job entails, what other people do and how that can help, not hinder the performer.
	www.dramawithadifference.com.au /about.htm (1569 words)

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