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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Television networks"”.
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Data communications via cable television networks : technical and policy considerations
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1983.
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Can buzz on Twitter predict TV ratings and viewers? : a study of US TV shows premiering in fall 2013
Watching television has always been a social activity. People like to sit down with friends and family to watch it and then discuss it not only with one's friends and family but at work (water cooler conversations). Just as television has moved ahead with advances in technology, so too has our …
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An empirical investigation into the 'piracy' of television series in South Africa
The end-user 'piracy' of television series, particularly of those produced by USA television networks such as HBO, NBC, ABC and FOX, is a growing trend in South Africa. This paper aims to identify why South Africans want to view television series this way and contribute to the research recognising …
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Media Images of Sub-Saharan African Countries on the Three U.S. Television News Networks (Abc, Cbs, and Nbc) From January 1980 to September 1988: a Content Analysis
… to provide an understanding of how the networks gave news coverage of Sub-saharan African countries from January 1980 to September 1988. The research questions were: what sort of news coverage do these countries get, and more specifically, what salient events are more likely to appear on …
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Disruptions in the sports content delivery value chain due to consuming sports content over the Internet
… - sports leagues; content aggregators - TV networks; content distributors - pay TV providers; advertisers - one of the main financiers in the value chain; and consumers. The relationships between the value chain players have been both cooperative and competitive, especially when the borders …
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Consuming Before they Can Walk: An Analysis of Media Literacy Education on the Top Preschool Programming Blocks on Television
Preschool television is a growing segment of children's media, but there is limited research examining the structure of the top preschool content producers. The vast majority preschool programming is promoted as educational by the networks; however no show explicitly lists media literacy education …
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Enlightened: Can short-form news videos open minds?
… The news clips were sourced from five major TV networks across the ideological spectrum (MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, ABC News and Fox News) and processed by a real-time news recording and processing system SuperGlue, to which I have also contributed. The processed news videos were summarized using …
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Patriotic Protest, Racist Revolt, or Just Another Event: Television News Framing of the Tea Party Movement
… on the ways in which newspapers and mainstream television networks represent leftist movements. The conservative, pro-capitalist Tea Party movement, which began to receive national news coverage in February 2009, provides an opportunity to examine the same types of relationships on the other end …
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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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Media globalization in Greater China : strategies of transnational media players and the regional television space
This research aims to analyze the Greater China television industry in the context of the debate on globalization. It presents an overview of the transnational corporate practices and the resulting transformation of the Greater China's television industry. The objective of this dissertation is …
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Netflix and the Development of the Internet Television Network
… books have been written about the five broadcast networks – NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and the CW – and many about the major cable networks – HBO, CNN, MTV, Nickelodeon, just to name a few – and this is the fitting time to undertake a detailed analysis of how Netflix, as the preeminent Internet TV …