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  Television - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
open-encyclopedia.com /Television   (4285 words)

  
 Television -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Television is a ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically) telecommunication system for (Taking part in a radio or tv program) broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance.
Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over radio waves in the (30 to 300 megahertz) VHF and (300 to 3000 megahertz) UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a television set).
Some early television sets, especially British ones, contained valves and other pre- (additional info and facts about solid state) solid state (additional info and facts about electronic) electronic components which generated a considerable amount of (A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature) heat even when the set was switched off.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/television.htm   (5916 words)

  
 The State (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The State was a sketch comedy television show broadcast on MTV from 1994 to 1995.
The show combined kooky characters and bizarre scenarios to present sketches that won the favor of its target twenty-something audience.
"The State" also refers to the comedy troupe that made up the cast of the show, as they have continued to successfully work together on film, television and in the world of journalism (in various groupings.) A book, State by State With the State (ISBN 0786882131) was a best-seller.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_State_(TV_Show)   (500 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of MTV Shows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Categories: MTV television series 12 Angry Viewers was a television show in the United States on MTV between 1997-98.
Celebrity Deathmatch was a claymation parody television show spoofing professional wrestling that pitted celebrities against each other in the ring, almost always ending in the death of the celebrity who lost the match.
Viva La Bam is a television reality show on MTV focusing on the life of Bam Margera and his friends engaged in various practical jokes with one another, but mostly played out on his unsuspecting parents Phil and April, as well as his uncle Vincent Margera (Don Vito).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-MTV-Shows   (1750 words)

  
 Penn State Football News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jones, sports director at WZWW Radio in State College, graduated from the University in 1980 with a degree in Speech Communication and Broadcasting.
A native of Enfield, Conn., Steve's first play-by-play work on Penn State football was as a student announcer at WDFN Radio, the campus station.
He has worked on a number of freelance television assignments for WPSX Television over the last decade, including telecasts of Penn State men's and women's volleyball, men's and women's gymnastics and wrestling.
www.psu.edu /sports/football/013100jones.html   (460 words)

  
 Cool Things, Whizzo the Clown Television Show Props, Kansas State Historical Society
Among the animals on the show was "Hissy the Goose," who would drop down on Whizzo, give him a bump, and fly back up.
There were many gimmicks to draw kids into the show, including becoming a member of Whizzo's Birthday Club (here's an image of the membership card).
Whizzo's last show was on May 20, 1987.
www.kshs.org /cool3/whizzo.htm   (504 words)

  
 ::: KYRGYZ TV SHOW OFFENDS MUSLIMS :::
But this protest is merely the culmination of months of discontent, with viewers saying Kyrgyz state television regularly broadcasts programmes which insult Muslims and their leaders.
Official statistics show that 1600 mosques and 42 Islamic schools have been established in Kyrgyzstan country in the past decade, and many students are also sent abroad to attend seminaries in Turkey, Egypt and Kuwait.
Observers say that Kyrgyzstan, having declared itself a secular state in which all are free to worship as they like, risks radicalising sections of its large Muslim population if it neglects their religious needs.
www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/ennews/2004/01/ennews22012004_1.html   (918 words)

  
 Blog Skåneland: Television and the State
The next step in the direction of increased state nationalism in Sweden is likely to be the abolishment of subtitles for adults as well and let Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger speak Svealand-Swedish.
State nationalism in Sweden is again on the rise.
State radio and television are obedient subjects to the State.
skaneland.blogspot.com /2005/10/television-and-state.html   (218 words)

  
 The Nevada Passage Adventure Competition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The state of Nevada invites you to explore its wide-open spaces with the first ever Nevada Passage adventure competition.
Television viewers can follow the athletes' chronicles in the one-hour "Nevada Passage" reality show, which will be syndicated in more than 80 television markets across the United States beginning in August.
One definition of the word passage is "the right, permission, or power to come and go freely." In that spirit, The Nevada Passage is more than an event or a television show — it's an open invitation to experience Nevada's wide-open opportunities for adventure.
www.travelnevada.com /passage/index.asp   (143 words)

  
 Popular Culture -- TELEVISION
CineMedia: Television Billed as the largest media site on the 'Net, CineMedia's television section is indeed a vast resource on all aspects of TV.
Conventions of Television News Article by John Hartley briefly introducing analysis of the way formats and other conventions shape the content of television news programs.
Reception, Identity, and the Global Village: Television in the Fourth World An approach to the problem of television as a potential force of cultural imperialism.
www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/pop/tele.html   (965 words)

  
 1962 In Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was the host of Whicker's World with the BBC and helped to launch Yorkshire Television.
His most memorable television role was decoding expert Michael Chambers in the famous 1962 Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man, the Times said.
See also: 1961 in television, other events of 1962, 1963 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
www.wikiverse.org /1962-in-television   (282 words)

  
 IPI - International Press Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On 12 July, Ljubica Letinic, a journalist for Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) was sentenced by a court in Split to a two-month suspended prison term for defaming a local businessman.
On the one hand, this research proved that Croatian Television is no longer a propaganda tool of the ruling regime and that the programme has been liberated from the influence of daily politics and political protocol.
In addition, the state broadcaster Croatian Radio-Television (HRT), the primary news source for the majority of Croatians, was a mere mouthpiece of the ruling party.
www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Europe/croatia.htm   (9506 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Ukraine state TV in revolt
A correspondent on the state channel, UT1, announced live on the evening bulletin that the entire news team was going to join the protests in Independence Square.
In the reinstated evening bulletin that replaced the election special, the channel's director Oleksander Rodnyansky stood in front of a solemn group of his colleagues to deliver a brief statement.
BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4044791.stm   (618 words)

  
 NOW: Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Jon Stewart | PBS
Moderated not by Public Television's Jim Lehrer, but by a man many consider to be the preeminent political analyst of our time, the distinguished commentator and anchorman, Jon Stewart.
When television first appeared it proved itself to be a vital insight into the process.
Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects.
www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_stewart.html   (2798 words)

  
 List of television programs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a listing of topics pertaining to television programs.
List of television shows set in New York City
List of television shows set in San Francisco
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_television_programs   (114 words)

  
 1995 In Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
See also: 1994 in television, other events of 1995, 1996 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
January - The UPN and WB television networks are launched in the United States
The show premieres on the USA Network in the United States on September 11.
www.wikiverse.org /1995-in-television   (297 words)

  
 CNN.com - Pat Robertson's 'nuke' idea draws protest - Oct. 9, 2003
Television evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson's suggestion that a nuclear device should be used to wipe out the State Department was "despicable," department spokesman Richard Boucher said Thursday.
A senior State Department official, who did not want to be identified, said the department has expressed its displeasure to Robertson.
Introducing Mowbray on his show, Robertson said that a reader of his book could conclude that the State Department needed a nuclear explosion.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/10/09/robertson.state   (419 words)

  
 The GSU Signal - Georgia State television show may go national   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The show represents college life but also includes original music and is intercut with celebrity interviews and commentary.
Although the pilot is complete, Beck, who serves as “Collegeland’s” executive producer, says that the producers are in the process of “shopping” the pilot episode, pitching the show’s concept to various broadcast and cable producers.
Mullen said the response to the show sent a message to its producers that they might be on the verge of a successful project.
www.gsusignal.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2003/12/09/3fd5e4e54089c   (436 words)

  
 TV show depicts 9/11 as Bush plot - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sunday night's episode of "Tatort," a popular murder mystery that has been running on state-run ARD-German television for 35 years, revolved around a German woman and a man who was killed in her apartment.
According to the plot, which was seen by approximately 7 million Germans, the dead man had been trained to be one of the September 11 pilots but was left behind, only to be tracked down and killed by CIA or FBI assassins.
ARD, and ARD-produced television shows, are funded by a monthly tax on German televisions.
www.washtimes.com /world/20050608-095942-4588r.htm   (521 words)

  
 The State - Los Angeles Times
Retirement funds issue should unite public employees after their battle over how state sales tax money is allocated, activists say.
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed up at his Brentwood polling station Tuesday to cast his ballot in the special election — and was told he had already voted.
State and local agencies face a growing burden as workers are called up for duty.
www.latimes.com /news/local/state   (4679 words)

  
 Beyond ‘Buffy’: State of sci-fi on TV - TV DRAMA - MSNBC.com
But like the Doctor himself, the show has beaten death many times and returned in new visages, the most prominent up to now being the disappointing American version in 1996.
On the other hand, the latest news isn’t so good: The Doctor’s longest-running and most popular villains, the Daleks, are officially not returning to the show after negotiations broke down between the BBC and the estate of Terry Nation, the writer who invented the pepperpot-shaped cyborgs in the early 1960s.
The basic concept of building a show around the most popular half-dozen of the DC Comics superhero stable hasn’t changed, but what’s different this year is a vastly increased number of guest shots from some of DC’s most interesting minor characters, including the faceless Question (voiced  by Jeffrey Combs), magic-wielder Zatanna, and nuclear-powered Captain Atom.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5296598   (1170 words)

  
 Mystery Inc.
Velma Dinkly is perhaps the most controversial of the investigators of Mystery Inc. To start with her name is not Velma Dinkly as is generally thought, this was a creation of the television show which thought that the name Velma Brown was too "ethnic".
The television show was of course made during the early seventies and minorities were just starting to be portrayed on television, in mostly stereotypical roles.
One thing that the first and later shows did get correct were some of the celebrities that Mystery Inc. encountered including Batman and Robin, although as with most of the stories the actual facts were twisted beyond recognition.
www.pjfarmer.com /secret/hyde/mysteryinc.htm   (3712 words)

  
 BET features South Carolina State in Upcoming Television Reality Series “THE ROAD SHOW”
“The Road Show” is a fun-spirited battle between male and female students who will compete in a variety of mental and physical challenges ranging from TV and sports trivia, to bobbing for apples and limbo contests.
Several other students were also given the opportunity to work behind the scenes, gaining valuable production and communications experience, as well as networking with a number of BET producers and other personnel.
South Carolina State University was one of only 10 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) selected to be part of this new series.
www.scsu.edu /Announcements/road_show.htm   (216 words)

  
 Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sheep farmer John Kiley and his wife were watching television about dusk at their home in rural Woodward when they heard the warning.
Arab satellite television stations broadcast the report of al-Douri’s death late Friday based on the e-mail but said they had no independent confirmation.
John Kiley and his wife were watching television at their home in rural Woodford when they heard the warning.
www.find-reference.org /Television.php?I=199881661&PC=&ac_id=   (261 words)

  
 kare11.com - KARE 11 Television :: Minneapolis, St. Paul
It showed that youngsters missing some sleep had difficulty paying attention.
That's what will happen November 19th at the Westchester Cat Show in White Plains, New York, when a schnauzer-Siberian husky mix named Ginny is eulogized.
Ginny was named Cat of the Year in 1998 for her uncanny skill and bravery in finding and rescuing endangered tabbies.
www.kare11.com   (864 words)

  
 The Saddam Show - How to watch Iraqi TV on the Web. By Paul Boutin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Iraqi television is rebroadcast onto the Net by the Dutch service DSL-TV, in both Real and Windows Media formats.
Some of the fare is strikingly similar to American television: news reports, speeches, music videos (some with lots of guns in them), and poignant interviews with big-eyed children in hospital beds.
Viewers be warned: American TV networks make daily decisions on what to show or not to show their viewers.
slate.msn.com /id/2080681   (680 words)

  
 NDI Featured on National TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A group of Winnemucca residents did a re-enactment of the death for "State Police".
The second case is the investigation of a more-recent murder victim, whose remains were found in the early 1990s near Battle Mountain, Nevada, in Lander County.
This investigation led NDI to ask for assistance from Louisiana State University, which did a computer-aided facial reconstruction on the victim.
www.dmvnv.com /news/01-154.htm   (196 words)

  
 TeleFood 2000 home
A three-hour celebrity-studded television show was broadcast live from The State of Bahrain via satellite to the Arab-speaking world in November.
In addition to live broadcasts, a number of other television stations -- from BBC World to NHK in Japan to Ecuador's main TV channels -- dedicated a series of programmes to food security issues.
The generous and enthusiastic support from a wide variety of TeleFood partners -- private companies and institutions, governments and non-governmental organizations, radio and television broadcasters -- was instrumental in spreading the TeleFood 2000 message.
www.fao.org /food/TF2000/sumup2000/sumup-e.htm   (316 words)

  
 Rob Sherman Television Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
show will be available for viewing until the June and July shows can be posted.
The Rob Sherman Television Show is cablecast from 6 to 7 p.m.
John Kotynek is technical director of the show.
www.robsherman.com /information/television/home.htm   (392 words)

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