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  Television - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
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.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /television.htm   (4582 words)

  
 Television - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
European color television was developed somewhat later and was hindered by a continuing division on technical standards.
In the US, the three original commercial television networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) provide prime-time programs for their affiliate stations to air from 8pm-11pm Monday-Saturday and 7pm-11pm on Sunday.
A 2/23/2002 article in Scientific American suggested that compulsive television watching was no different from any other addiction, a finding backed up by reports of withdrawal symptoms among families forced by circumstance to cease watching.
open-encyclopedia.com /Television   (4285 words)

  
 Vanderbilt Television News Archive
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.
These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
All material of the Television News Archive must be used within the restrictions of the United States copyright legislation.
tvnews.vanderbilt.edu   (396 words)

  
 News -- Aristide: US forced me to leave
In interviews with US television and news agencies, he said he had been the victim of a "coup d'etat".
The US state department has begun working on the creation of a "council of elders" including Mr Aristide's interim successor, Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre, to prepare for new elections and regroup the police force.
They are calling for an inquiry into whether the US Central Intelligence Agency had a role in the rebellion which led to the downfall of Mr Aristide and his democratically elected government.
odili.net /news/source/2004/mar/2/63.html   (536 words)

  
 Barbara Walters signs lucrative US book deal. 16/04/2004. ABC News Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
US television news trailblazer Barbara Walters has signed with Miramax Books to write her memoirs in a deal worth more than $5 million, a source close to the negotiations says.
The 72-year-old, network television's first female news anchor and the celebrated interviewer of many of the world's rich, famous and powerful, will write the book herself for publication in 2007, a Miramax spokeswoman said.
She became the first woman to anchor a network evening news broadcast when she signed with ABC News in 1976 after 15 years with NBC's Today Show, where she was a writer and then a reporter before becoming the show's first female co-host.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1088446.htm   (326 words)

  
 U.S. Television News Afgan Coverage - 'Jingoistic, sugar-coated, superficial'
Jingoistic, sugar-coated, superficial - those are just some of the criticisms levelled at US television networks' coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan in recent days - and not just by the foreign competition.
Weighing into the US cable stations and networks for their "myopic view", James criticised editors for caving into patriotism "rather than informing viewers of the complex, sometimes harsh realities they need to know".
US television coverage needed to be seen in the context of September 11 and the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon which claimed some 4,500 lives, he pointed out.
www.freemasonrywatch.org /ustv_jingoistic.html   (649 words)

  
 US Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947—1960 - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Television news and the Cold War grew simultaneously in the years following World War II, and their history is deeply intertwined.
In need of access to official film and newsmakers to build themselves into serious news organizations, and anxious to prove their loyalty in the age of fllisting, the network news divisions acted as unofficial state propagandists.
Based on extensive primary research, this book makes a strong and compelling argument for collaboration between US television networks and government during the early years of the medium, and demonstrates how the Cold War was effectively ‘sold’ to the American public.
www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=052154324X&print=y   (274 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > Breaking News > US television portraying religion in a negative light: Study
Faith in a Box: Entertainment Television and Religion found that television's treatment of religion has become increasingly negative and doesn't reflect the viewpoints of a majority of Americans.
The study also found that US broadcaster NBC by far leads the other major networks in terms of the number of negative depictions of faith.
I am not suggesting that all television programming ought to be about St. Teresa or even be all positive about religion.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/dec/dec158.htm   (529 words)

  
 Television news makes us miserable, says study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The results showed that the negative psychological effects brought on from watching television news remained for at least 15 minutes and could not be reduced by engaging in an attention-demanding daily activity such as a lecture, work task, reading, or watching another television programme.
We carried out a pilot study which revealed that a large majority of television news stories were negative, depicting issues such as conflict and abuse.
He added: “The results of the research indicate that if somebody is having a hard time in any area of their life they should probably avoid watching television news as those emotions will only be heightened.
www.ntu.ac.uk /news/press_releases/9906.html   (535 words)

  
 Television News
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www.pgtelevision.com /televisionnews   (228 words)

  
 Television [encyclopedia]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The transmission and reproduction of moving pictures and associated sound by electronic means; developed in the late 19th-c and early 20th-c, with the first pictures presented by Baird in 1926.
A semi-mechanical analogue television system was first demonstrated in February 1924 by John Logie Baird and moving pictures by Baird on October 30 1925.
television, television system = a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points.
kosmoi.com /Technology/Television   (690 words)

  
 Business Report - US television networks cut world news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the old days, US newspaper reporter Jonathan Randal dreaded competition from TV networks on the big foreign stories, with their free-spending correspondents and camera crews.
International news is a natural place to look in the 1990s, as US interests turn inward towards former football star OJ Simpson and presidential sex scandals.
News executives say they look for cost savings without diminishing their ability to cover news.
www.busrep.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=561&fArticleId=60068   (1139 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | US television gets British makeover
Aside from The Office, which is being adapted for network television with American stars, producers have bought the rights to programmes such as Manchild and Father Ted, along with reality and gameshows such as Make My Day, Grand Slam and Wife Swap.
So Graham Norton showcased its star in the US before Norton was given a variety show on the popular Comedy Central that begins in 2004.
American television is littered with hopeless adaptations in which the distinctive souls of British television shows have been replaced by cheap gags designed to appeal to 250 million people while offending none.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/03/wtv03.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/03/ixportal.html   (1342 words)

  
 News Sites --FooteWorks.US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ananova- access breaking news and information on a range of subjects on platforms including the WWW, WAP devices, mobile phones and personal digital assistants.
Google News- culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first.
Progress Report by The Center for American Progress- News and reflection on key current policy issues by this nonpartisan research and educational institute.
footeworks.us /newssites.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - WENN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Medics advised the Mean Girls star to stay in hospital for a few days after discovering the attack had broken a blood vessel in her neck.
Property tycoon Donald Trump has hit out at speculation he is set to run for New York Governor this year, insisting he is having too much fun with other projects.
The Apprentice star was tipped as a candidate by leading Republican and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno during a News Channel 10 interview in Albany on Friday.
www.imdb.com /news/wenn#celeb3   (1253 words)

  
 US top television news networks in San Diego, CA, by station, ratings and share numbers broken down by time periods as ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
US top television news networks in San Diego, CA, by station, ratings and share numbers broken down by time periods as recording during February of 2001 and reported on M...
US top nine radio broadcasters by number of stations owned in San Diego, CA, area and average quarter hour market share rating, revenue in dollars and percent share of total market as reported on May 14, 2001
US Nielsen rating and audience share in percent for television networks in the Greensboro - High Point - Winston-Salem, NC, market area broken down for top networks and stations during the evening and late news weekday dayparts for 1999
www.researchandmarkets.com /reportinfo.asp?report_id=275344   (390 words)

  
 entertainment.iafrica.com | television | news US to up fines for TV 'indecency'
Be informed of all the latest and hottest goss to be dished up on celebs by Trixy Honore in her weekly column, Bitch & Famous...
US politicians are proposing a tough new law aimed at cracking down on indecency and bad language on US TV, according to a report on BBC online.
Entertainers could also be liable for fines under the proposed legisation from both US politicians and officials from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the BBC reports.
entertainment.iafrica.com /tv/news/408364.htm   (290 words)

  
 MIKE SPADONI'S VIEW FROM AMERICA | US TELEVISION NEWS | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Thanks to her character Shirley, co-star hams James Spader and William Shatner don’t seem so overbearing.....Jennifer Finnigan grows on me with every viewing of “Close To Home,” yet another CBS crime procedural that doesn’t feel like every other CBS crime procedural (and that goes for you, CSI and your clones, competent they may be).
After more work on television and films, Spencer was cast yet again in a major television role–White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on “West Wing.” McGarry and Spencer shared two major traits–both were hard workers and recovering alcoholics.
He loves television as much as I do, and he loves his family as much as I adore my extended family–love you Vickie, Korbie, Steven and Danielle.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /newsus.htm   (1473 words)

  
 Chicago Tribune news : Local news, weather, traffic, shopping and classified
Dozens of metropolitan areas—including Chicago—will compete for grant money under a new policy designed to provide more funding to communities at greater risk of terror attacks.
FAA: Atlanta airport is busiest in U.S. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has topped Chicago O'Hare International Airport as the nation's busiest in terms of takeoffs and landings, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.
After 3 decades of catering to cheap tourists at a temporary shack, TKTS is scheduled to break ground on a permanent site in March.
www.chicagotribune.com   (468 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Indecency fears hit US television
More than 20 TV stations across the US have cancelled a broadcast of Saving Private Ryan over fears they could be fined for its violence and language.
Stations in Dallas, New Orleans, Orlando and Milwaukee, owned by a range of companies, are among those to pull Saving Private Ryan from Thursday's schedules.
In the Janet Jackson case, 20 stations owned by CBS were fined the maximum penalty for indecency - $27,500 (£15,340) - each by the FCC.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4002671.stm   (284 words)

  
 US television boosts News Corp profit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
SYDNEY, November 6: Rupert Murdoch's global media group News Corp Ltd posted a surprisingly strong 15 per cent profit rise for the first quarter on Thursday, citing sharply higher US television earnings and better newspaper profits.
News Corp's net profit before abnormals for the first three months to September 30 rose 15 per cent to A$327 million.Analysts had expected a net profit fall of about five per cent to A$270 million.
The strongest performers was News Corp's Fox Broadcasting Co (FBC) and Fox Television Station (FTS) groups in the United States.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19971107/31155453.html   (423 words)

  
 Independent Television News
The student was speaking on her mobile phone to her mother when there was a scream and the line went dead.
The families of twelve US miners trapped underground are in despair after they were given false reports that their loved ones were alive.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are to reunite for the first time in eight years on new star-studded show Dancing on Ice.
www.itn.co.uk   (145 words)

  
 TV News on Monsters and Critics
NEW YORK, NY, United States -- The Fox Reality cable network is launching two-part reality show called 'Double or Nothing,' it was reported Tuesday.
NEW YORK, NY, United States -- Sony is producing CBS` upcoming series 'Monkey Business' and using the series for some cross promotion for its musical artists.
At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, 12 million DISH satellite customers were cut off from Lifetime Television and Lifetime Movie Network, the two most popular and highest-valued networks for women.
smallscreen.monstersandcritics.com   (257 words)

  
 US Press News
Reportedly, all of the major Hollywood movie studios are watching these developments closely as they have proven to be in great need of such innovations.
Mel Gibson, who was accused by many of promoting anti-Semitic views in his 2004 blockbuster "Passion of the Christ," is said to be involved in a new project set in a Nazi concentration camp.
During a live television benefit concert for New Orleans, rap star Kanye West criticized the federal government's slow response to help the stranded residents of New Orleans by claiming that, "George Bush doesn't care about fl people."
www.uspressnews.com   (674 words)

  
 Jolie, Pitt to be grilled on US television:- - World News - Webindia123.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jolie, Pitt to be grilled on US television:- - World News - Webindia123.com
London, June 6 : Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will face separate television interviews in the US Tuesday to answer questions about their reported affair.
U S concerned over Nepal's Maoists ending ceasefire
news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=86118&cat=World   (243 words)

  
 APTN - Associated Press Television News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Television production and distribution solutions for the business world.
Sports News TV (SNTV) will be there to offer comprehensive news coverage of the world's greatest sporting event.
AP Television News outpaced its agency competition by providing almost 700 more exclusive news stories to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in 2005
www.aptn.com   (126 words)

  
 Jamiroquai | News | US television dates announced - 12 September 2005, 22:36 (BST)
US television dates announced - 12 September 2005, 22:36 (BST)
In an article at Billboard.com which is promoting the forthcoming USA and Canadian tour, they also mention that Jamiroquai have two television performances lined up whilst in America:
Comments can only be added to news items that are less than one week old.
www.funkin.com /news?id=2642   (229 words)

  
 Television News
Television news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
A contract dispute between an Indianapolis television station and a western Indiana city's cable TV company has left subscribers in the dark if they want to watch ABC programs.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On2 Technologies, Inc. announced today that it will demonstrate a breadth of newly-developed personal video encoding and delivery solutions this week at the Consumer...
www.topix.net /business/television   (874 words)

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