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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Commercial television"”.
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Commercial television and children.
… the writer's interest in the sales aspect of commercial television and its impact upon children. It consists of a study of the effectiveness of Action for Children's Television in encouraging the broadcast industry to employ additional self-regulation when broadcasting to children as a …
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A History of Sport on Commercial Television, 1955-1992
… between sport and the United Kingdom's first two commercial television channels, Independent Television (ITV) and Channel Four. It is the first comprehensive study of the history of British television sport to focus on commercial broadcasters and is based on extensive research carried out in the …
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Public service and commercial television news in Sweden : ideas and influences
… often posited as being inherently different from commercial broadcasting. Some scholars, however, have taken the opposite position: that public service and commercial entities operate in strikingly similar ways (in terms of organization, management strategy, and output). In order to address the …
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Personal interviews with general managers of commercial television stations and twelve case studies
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Telecommunication, 1976
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London Zoo, Commercial Television, and Primate Ethology from the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape
… ‘man’, ‘the naked ape’ - were built on British commercial television. It highlights TV as a major arena of science and cultural politics, while also unpicking its intermedial relations with other technologies of expert and mass communication. Above all, it uncovers the remarkable …
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A Study of Some Effects of Commercial Television on Seventh and Eighth Grade Students in the Chehalis Public Schools
… of this study was to investigate some effects of television viewing on the seventh and eighth grade students of Chehalis, Washington.
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Vizuální identita a branding: Česká televize a TV Nova
… The aim of the thesis is to analyse how both television broadcasters represent their brands through visual elements, what role visual identity plays in their communication, and how these approaches differ in the context of public service and commercial television broadcasting. The thesis is …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics
… particular, I analyze the impacts of exposure to commercial television on fertility in the 1950s in the United States. I tackle this question empirically by exploiting variation in the introduction of television across time and space. I find that television is associated with fewer births. …
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Portal Imaging Using a CSI (TL) Scintillator Coupled to a Cooled CCD Camera
… conventional and high contrast portal film and a commercial <br />EPID. An image processing protocol was developed. The protocol was comprised of <br />preprocessing, noise removal and image enhancement algorithms. An adaptive median filter <br />algorithm for the removal of impulse noise was …
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‘Car-chase TV’: The Legitimisation of Police Work?
‘Car chase TV’ has become a staple of U.K. television schedules over the past two decades. Conveyed in a plethora of observational documentaries (ob-docs), mediated images of police vehicular pursuits (PVPs) are packaged as entertainment products. However, the rise of PVPs as a ubiquitous …
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The television policies of the British Labour Party 1951-2000
This thesis provides an extended analysis of the television policies of the British Labour Party from 1951 up to the present day. It examines the evolution of Labour's television policy and focuses on the social, political and economic contexts in which policies were developed, the party forums in …
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Why do Channel 4 and the BBC portray disability and disability sport differently? Analysing the production processes and audience reception of mediated sport
… Corporation (BBC) and Channel 4 – a mainstream commercial television broadcaster in the UK. It investigates whether Channel 4 portrays disability in shows which are designed to be laughed at or laughed with, given that Channel 4 has the UK broadcasting rights to the coverage of both the Summer …
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Regulation of Television Advertising in the United ngdom
… is to examine the current state of regulation of television advertising in the UK, chiefly in the light of its historical background. A number of general theories of regulation are also used to analyse both developments in regulation policy and some of the events and processeisn the practical …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
… formation. While the rise of massive global commercial media enterprises leads to renewed discussion of the dominance of the "West" upon the "Rest," the increasing portability, transmitability, and reproducibility of media has helped to generate a grassroots globalization of migrant …
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Sounds without Borders: Industry, Society and the Voice in Giallo Cinema
… giallo’s voice tracks were conditioned by the commercial imperatives of Italy’s post-war popular film industry and that these commercial imperatives were in turn shaped by wider social, economic and political phenomena. By theorising the voice as a mediator between the giallo text and its …
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The impact of commercial global television on cultural change and identity formation. A study of Kurdish women and the Turkish soap opera 'Noor'.
… identified the role played by international television soap operas in identity formation and cultural change in relation to Kurdish women. Currently, Kurdish women live in a cultural context where traditional values often conflict with modern values when it comes to behaviour deemed …