TV Companies Research Articles

OCCUPATIONAL STRESS, JOB SATISFACTION AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG EMPLOYEES OF AN ACQUIRED TV COMPANY IN HONG KONG

The Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI) was adopted to investigate the sources of stress, job satisfaction, coping strategies, mental and physical health of workers. Data were collected from 101 employees of an acquired TV company in Hong Kong. Workers' perceived work pressure was negatively related to job satisfaction, and positively related to mental and physical ill-health. Among these employees, sources of stress were negatively related to job satisfaction, and positively related to mental and physical ill-health. Opposite findings were obtained for coping strategies, which were positively related to job satisfaction, and negatively related to mental and physical ill-health. Regression analyses were employed to reveal the predictors for strain effects. The results showed that a combination of stressors related statistically significantly to the strain effects, but only a few individual stressors were strong predictors. ‘Relationships with other people’ and ‘organizational structure and climate’ were strong predictors of job satisfaction, whereas ‘managerial role’ was a strong predictor of both mental and physical ill-health. The middle managers reported highest scores on some sources of stress and physical ill-health. Further, the results of this study provide some validation data for the OSI in a Chinese sample. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

OCCUPATIONAL STRESS, JOB SATISFACTION AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG EMPLOYEES OF AN ACQUIRED TV COMPANY IN HONG KONG

The Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI) was adopted to investigate the sources of stress, job satisfaction, coping strategies, mental and physical health of workers. Data were collected from 101 employees of an acquired TV company in Hong Kong. Workers' perceived work pressure was negatively related to job satisfaction, and positively related to mental and physical ill-health. Among these employees, sources of stress were negatively related to job satisfaction, and positively related to mental and physical ill-health. Opposite findings were obtained for coping strategies, which were positively related to job satisfaction, and negatively related to mental and physical ill-health. Regression analyses were employed to reveal the predictors for strain effects. The results showed that a combination of stressors related statistically significantly to the strain effects, but only a few individual stressors were strong predictors. ‘Relationships with other people’ and ‘organizational structure and climate’ were strong predictors of job satisfaction, whereas ‘managerial role’ was a strong predictor of both mental and physical ill-health. The middle managers reported highest scores on some sources of stress and physical ill-health. Further, the results of this study provide some validation data for the OSI in a Chinese sample. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Serials on British television, 1950-1994

This reference offers information on over 900 serials that have appeared on British TV since 1950. It is intended to help research into wider trends in TV output such as its reflections of changing attitudes and other factors - the level of adaptations from books versus original writing for TV, tracing a producer's or an actor's career, identifying the rise or popularity of a particular genre and what TV company produced what.

Exploring the determinants of arterial blood pressure in the employees of press and tv companies

Exploring the determinants of arterial blood pressure in the employees of press and tv companies

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Karaoke lets people sing along to recorded accompaniments. Many karaoke systems provide the accompaniment, on-screen vocal texts for the singer to follow, and a video that is appropriate to the selected song. There are currently three types of karaoke systems: those for karaoke houses, cable TV companies, and home use. These are all standalone systems that require considerable human interaction. None of them can provide Karaoke on demand. To provide KOD, Y.-J. Lee, D.H.C. Du, and W.-H. Ma (1996) have proposed Sesame (a scalable and extensible architecture for multimedia entertainment). They claim that Sesame is modular (system elements can be easily replaced), scalable, extensible, and cost effective. Although other researchers have devised KOD schemes, these schemes are also standalone systems, are limited by throughput, or only provide audio. Sesame system would have three basic components: the server system, the network, and the user workstations. The server system uses off the shelf products such as a Fast-Wide SCSI II channel to connect storage devices to servers. Servers, also using commodity products such as Intel Pentium or Motorola PowerPC chips, administer the data. A switch based network connects the server to the workstations. A switch based network can provide each user with a dedicated link and bandwidth at low latency, unlike a shared medium network such as a LAN. The workstation forwards user requests, decompresses the data, mixes the user's voice with the soundtrack, and controls the audio-video display. The system uses MPEG compression.

Broadband access: comparing alternatives

Capital investments by network providers to develop broadband access for the information superhighway have inherent risks. Nevertheless, potential rewards to telephone companies, cable TV companies, and others for serving the end consumer in an expanding information economy make such investments a business imperative. This article focuses on the incumbent terrestrial access providers, the telephone local exchange carriers (LECs) and cable multiple system operators (MSOs). First, it cites the business environment and the information highway services that are driving local telephone and cable companies to invest in broadband access, as evolving technology and relaxing regulation enable the convergence of these two industries. Broadband access technologies are then reviewed and evolutionary paths from the respective embedded bases are considered, with respect to both today's choices and the long-term vision. The two choices for broadband access are loosely termed hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) and switched digital video (SDV). The thrust of this article is to explain why these two alternatives overshadow all others and to highlight the decision factors facing network providers in choosing between them.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

PRE-VIEW CABLE TV ROUTES

Summary Urban areas of Britain are currently being serviced with a network for the supply of cable television. This Note reviews the legal framework under which the cable TV companies are operating. Suggestions are made for actions that arboriculturists should take to minimise damage to trees.

Hybridizing the local loop

The recent collapse of two widely publicized merger proposals-of Bell Atlantic with Tele-Communications International and Southwestern Bell with Cox Broadcasting-has shaken some industry pundits, who are now wondering if communications convergence is on hold, if not dead. Whether or not phone and cable TV companies merge, the technologies they use to deliver their services to the home will do so. The author speculates how electric utilities may play a key role in their amalgamation.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Competition between Television Companies for Advertising Revenue in the United Kingdom: The Independent Television Regions Prior to Deregulation

This paper provides a contribution to the geographies of advertising and the media. The authors examine the ways in which commercial television companies try to attract advertising to their regions; advertising being their main source of revenue. Competition based on the cost of advertising in particular regions is effectively restricted. This market failure results in regionally uneven allocations of advertising money, and hence an uneven regional pattern of TV company revenues. Other forms of competition are used to attempt to change this. TV companies promote their regions to advertisers and advertising agencies in ways varying from the production of ‘hard’ data to full-blown campaigns designed to promote or alter regional ‘images’. They also provide various services and cost incentives. It is argued that the deregulation of commercial television, which introduces intraregional competition, will not correct the market failure and will, if anything, reinforce the uneven allocation of advertising monies and media revenues. It is also suggested that intraregional competition will reduce regional promotion, the main competitive strategy that has been used to try to offset regional differences.

How to find UK local statistics

Outlmes the range of sources on UK local statistics Covers data produced by local authorities in the form of statistics, policy reports, research reports and company directories; the output of other bodies, such as CIPFA, new towns, property bodies, chambers of commerce, TV companies, market research companies and specialist consultancies. Also covers information services of the Planning Exchange, Centre for Local Economic Strategies, London Residuary Body and Capital Planning Intormation

Cable TV company to start trial telephone service

Cable TV company to start trial telephone service

Smoking Cessation and Smokers' Perceptions of Their Addiction

Investigated whether cigarette smokers' views of their own smoking and their attributions for why smokers generally often fail to quit were related to ratings of confidence in their own ability to quit, and their intention to do so by analyzing responses to 3 postal questionnaires. One year later, self-reports were obtained of whether the Ss had attempted to quit or reduce their consumption. The sample consisted of 141 smokers who had contacted a TV company in response to an offer of free antismoking kits. Path analyses were conducted on the total sample, and on a restricted sample of Ss who had previously tried to stop smoking but relapsed. These indicated that cessation attempts were predictable from intention, that intention was predictable from confidence (expectancy of success), and that confidence was predictable from attributions in a manner consistent with B. Weiner's (see PA, Vol 62:8688) model of achievement motivation. Ss' views of their own smoking, based on r! atings of 20 self-descriptive items, were characterized in terms of 2 factors that also related to attributions--Confidence and Intention.

US Universities Align with Cable TV

The cable TV franchising boom in the US led to a number of interesting alliances between cable TV companies and American universities. The cable companies solicited the support of the local university officials by promising equipment and channel space. The programming appearing on the channel now includes student productions, productions about services the university provides, college credit courses, and character-generated announcements about events on campus. The operation of the channel varies from university to university.