TV Stations Research Articles

‘Actually evil. Not high school evil’: Amanda Knox, sex and celebrity crime

In November 2007, the media around the globe were transfixed by US student Amanda Knox, an alleged participant in the sexual assault and murder of her flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Her celebrity status was established within days of the murder, and at the end of 2008 she was voted Woman of the Year by an Italian TV station, ahead of Carla Bruni and Sarah Palin. The focus of this study is the representation of Amanda Knox in the UK media, particularly the coverage offered by the Daily Mail. The Mail has shown a detailed and sustained interest in the case throughout, its focus on her character and personal life helping to secure Knox's status as a celebrity murderess (and, in the wake of her acquittal in October 2011, as an apparent celebrity victim of injustice). Focusing on the Mail’s narratological strategies, as well as its rhetorical ones, this study explores connections between celebrity, sex and violence in order to assess what the Knox phenomenon reveals about contemporary attitudes towards transgressive female sexuality. Under scrutiny are the ways in which the celebrity crime figure Amanda Knox has been represented, and how these representations conform to dominant ideological constructions of the violent female.

Digital terrestrial television policies in Mexico: The telecom wars

This article analyses and discusses Mexican public policies regarding the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT). We aim to show how digitization, in the Mexican context, can be thought of as an opportunity to change the duopolistic structure in television in order to obtain higher quality and greater content diversity. The methodology used here consists of a structural historical analysis of communication policies with an emphasis on digital switchover, paying special attention to the social power relations that have led to the current structural conditions of the concentrated Mexican communications system. Overall, preliminary results obtained in this research show a lack of clarity in DTT policies of the last two administrations (Vicente Fox 2000–2006 and Felipe Calderón 2006–2012) and a reinforced hegemony of the economically dominant broadcast and telecommunications actors: Televisa, TV Azteca and Telmex, in detriment to public service, competition, local TV stations, independent production, content quality and audiences in a broader sense.

Translations of 30 Rock in the New Media Environment in Korea

Changes in the new media environment are radically shifting the ways audiences consume media products. The development on the latest technologies such as DVD and the Internet is changing how viewers interact with each other. For instance, fans of American TV drama and sitcoms in Korea participate in online discussions about plots and characters. They also exchange amateur subtitle translations and comment on them. This study will attempt to outline the so-called fansubbing phenomenon in Audiovisual Translation and compare and analyze examples from institutionalized subtitles (authorized translations on cable TV stations by professional translators) and fansubbed versions (fan-produced amateur translations) of the popular American sitcom 30 Rock. Upon examination, we can see that this new form of Internet subtitling by amateur translators employs more creative and individualistic strategies of translation than conventional translations done by professionals. These diverse translation techniques prove that fansubbing is a translation process in which established standards and conventions can be challenged. There are implications for the emergence of a new flourishing sector of cultural production and knowledge sharing based on the New Media Internet-based environment, and the forming of new cultural sensibilities and new cultural tastes in Korea.

Educação, ideologia e discurso: uma análise crítica e multimodal da série de reportagens “Blitz Educação”

Neste artigo, examinamos a série de reportagens intitulada “Blitz Educação”, veiculada pela Rede Globo em seu principal noticiário, Jornal Nacional, em maio de 2011, a fim de elucidar as concepções de educação formal que circulam na grande mídia (aqui representada pela emissora), bem como o papel atribuído ao/a professor/a no processo educacional. Buscamos apoio na Análise Crítica do Discurso, em seu principal expoente Norman Fairclough (2001; 2003), fazendo uma ponte com o desenvolvimento sobre ideologia e relações de poder entre grupos sociais com Teun A. van Dijk (2006; 2010), e na análise multimodal de textos imagéticos, proposta por Kress e van Leeuwen (1996). Para contextualizar as concepções pedagógicas postas em discussão ao longo da série, realizamos um apanhado das principais correntes a guiar a educação formal no Brasil, examinando os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (1997) e outras fontes. Tendo em vista que o recurso semiótico multimodal disponibilizado pelas imagens é um poderoso recurso na construção do discurso, examinamos as escolhas de montagem e edição das imagens, os processos narrativos de representação, bem como as construções conceituais de representação realizados na série. Ao final, observamos como, através de estruturas de lexicalização, de construção da transitividade, dos recursos semióticos multimodais, dentre outros, enquadra-se o/a professor/a como único responsável pelo sucesso/fracasso do processo educativo formal. Ainda testemunhamos como, através do discurso (verbal e imagético) e apoiada nessa caracterização do profissional docente, a série de reportagens impõe uma ideologia hegemônica e conservadora sobre a educação.

Design of a Printed Dipole Antenna Array for a Passive Radar System

Passive radar (or Passive Coherent Localisation) is an advancing technology for covert operation. The signal transmitted from sources of opportunity such as radio or TV stations is used as illumination for a certain area of interest. Part of the transmitted signal is reflected by radar targets, for example, moving objects such as vehicles or aircraft. Typical radar parameters are derived from the comparison between the direct line-of-sight from the transmitter and the signal scattered from the target object. Such systems are an attractive addition to existing active radar stations because they have the potential to discover low-flying and low-observable targets and no active radar transmitter is required. Printed dipole antennas are very attractive antenna elements for such systems because of their easy fabrication, low-cost, polarisation purity, and low-profile properties. The present paper describes the design of an antenna array using printed dipole elements with flared arms for a passive radar system operating in the GSM900 frequency range. Isolated antenna elements and a small uniform linear antenna array were designed and optimised using computational electromagnetic methods. Several prototypes have been fabricated on conventional microwave PCB substrate material. Preliminary measurement results for antenna matching and far-field radiation patterns are shown.

Tele-Saar : Europe's First Commercial TV Station as transnational Experiment

Tele-Saar : Europe's First Commercial TV Station as transnational Experiment

A Channel Allocation Algorithm Based on Geo-location and Positioning Accuracy in Geo-location Database

Abstract In this paper, we investigate how to acquire spectrum information for accessing the available TV white space quickly. It is known that the load of secondary device can be reduced by utilizing geolocation database. A channel allocation algorithm based on geo-location and positioning accuracy is proposed by using geo-location database in order to further reduce the secondary device's load and sensing cost. Based on the geo-location and positioning accuracy of white space devices (WSDs), the proposed algorithm first allocates the available channels to the WSD which locates outside the keepout region of TV stations. Then, it allocates the channels to the WSDs within the scope of protection of TV station, and in this case the WSD has to sense the allocated channels to determine whether they are idle using the energy detection algorithm. Detailed simulations show that the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the sensing costs and information feedback overhead, and improves the throughput and spectrum efficiency of the whole system.

Audiovisual journalism: from the TV screen to other screens

This article is based on research which has been developed in partnership with Unesp TV, a university TV broadcast station of the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Bauru campus/SP. The study aims to identify convergent and divergent aspects in the design of audiovisual journalistic content for TV and other media such as the internet and mobile communication systems. The results presented here are the considerations obtained from the first stage of the research. In this phase, the basic steps which should guide the design of the content to feed broadcasting time are outlined, as well as the online audiovisual news broadcast and business management of a TV station, compared to the model which has been followed by internet TV broadcasters.

PENGARUH BUDAYA ORGANISASI TERHADAP INOVASI PRODUK PADA TV BERITA MILIK PEMERINTAH INDONESIA (STUDI KASUS PADA LPP TELEVISI REPUBLIK INDONESIA)

In the era of open competition and is very tight at this time, product innovation is not an option but a necessity. The changes and dynamics in market and also the environment in general, can not be ignored if you want to continue to survive in the business. Accordingly, this case study attempted to analyze on product innovation, particularly in relation to organizational culture. Case studies conducted at the Institute for Public Broadcasting (LPP) Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) as a government-owned TV station news which is also the oldest TV station in Indonesia. The analysis focused on the influence of organizational culture - which includes the type of adhocracy and hierarchy culture - to product innovation in TVRI. Data were obtained through questionnaires to managers and staff of the news division field. With the method of multiple regression analysis, the results suggest that there are cultural influences of organizational culture that include adhocracy and hierarchyculture to product innovation either jointly or individually. The type of culture that encourages more product innovation happening in the LPP TVRI is adhocracy culture. This indicates that TVRI should immediately make the transition a culture that has been more dominant, the hierarchy culture, toward a more flexible and responsive to environmental changes, which is adhocracy culture. Thus expected to be able to support its role in maximazing the function of public institutions to provide more balanced information on the people of Indonesia.

The Impact of the Service Staff's Recruitment and Service Characteristics in Public Service Units on Public Mental Acceptance: Evidence from the Host Recruitment and TV Program Features

As one of the public service units, TV stations tried to make market-oriented reforms by developing brand TV programs to compete with others. The principal focus of our study was to find out the symbolic brand effect of self-congruity and brand personality on audience attitudes, brand loyalty, audience satisfaction, and program preference for TV programs in China. Results indicated that (a) the congruity of audience's self-concept and typical audience image had a positive influence on audience watching mentality; (b) a positive brand personality could result in favorable program evaluation; (c) preference for the host played a moderating role on brand personality effects.

Organizational Ethics of Chinese Mass Media

This study examined the organizational ethics of 51 Chinese media outlets by investigating their organizational statements through breaking them down into three components: definitions, loyalties and values (functions and purposes), and ethical principles (consequentialism vs. formalism). The impact of three characteristics on organizational ethics was also tested. It was found that the Chinese media are most loyal to organizational development, then to the government; and least loyal to their audience. Furthermore, media organizations tend to use consequentialism rather than formalism to justify their moral decisions. This pattern is particularly salient in TV stations compared with daily newspapers.

Três formas do experimentalismo na MPB da década de 1970

Neste artigo, pretende-se analisar aspectos e características da produção experimental de compositores e grupos da música popular brasileira dos anos 1970, período marcado pela ditadura militar e pela expansão das indústrias midiáticas ligadas ao campo da canção popular (gravadoras e emissoras de TV). Parte-se da discussão teórica sobre experimentalismo feita por Umberto Eco e do conceito de “canção crítica”, de Santuza C. Naves, para pensar a “canção experimental”. Serão apontadas três linhas gerais da experimentação praticada por esses criadores: 1) relação entre tradição e modernidade, como herança tropicalista, mas efetivada em outro patamar; 2) experimentalismo como exercício estético realizado especificamente na materialidade do código poético e musical da canção visando determinados significados; 3) uso criativo do corpo e da performance como elementos produtores de sentido, em sintonia com a leitura nacional da contracultura.
 
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 Música popular brasileira. Experimentalismo. Contracultura. Anos 1970.

Development of Pay Television Channels in China

In 2003, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) determine those network development years and released a policy document. This indicates that management is aware of the importance of pay TV and digital TV and hoping to promote the development of network services and system integration, and change the business model of the radio and television industry has long rely solely on advertising. As of July 2009, approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to set up a pay TV channel has 142 units, divided into two categories broadcast on nationwide broadcast and province. In 7 years, the national digital pay TV channels from scratch, from small to large, from more than 20 of the initial development to the current level of 142, the number increased by 7 times. Judging from the number of digital pay channels have begun to take shape, the categories covered very rich. But from the overall development situation of Chinese digital TV, pay-TV channels, the number of users is far less than the (wired) digital TV subscribers, the development is very optimistic. 2010 cable industry revenues constitute the revenue of the premium channels is also very small. At present, China has a number of pay-TV channels integrated operating agencies, the premium channels transmission operators institutions user access and pay channels, operations, CCTV and local TV stations to form a pay channels.

Just Being a Woman Isn't Enough Any More

This study focuses on TV news coverage of women in the local elections held in Israel in 2008. The questions posed were: Did national TV news in Israel during the election campaign reflect the changes in the status of women in local politics that have occurred in the last two decades? How prominent was the representation of women politicians in national TV news coverage and what patterns did it display? The sample used in the study consisted of all items dealing with women that were broadcast by one of the national TV stations during the month prior to the local elections. All the news and current affairs broadcasts were analyzed. All items in which women candidates featured, as well as items dealing with issues relating to women in politics in general, were taped and transcribed. The study was based on an interpretive analysis employing the analytical tool of “media frames.” Although the extent of the coverage of women remained quite meager, this reflects the sociopolitical reality in which women politicians are still a small minority. However, whereas the literature emphasizes the negative stereotypical representation of women politicians, the national TV news representation of women in the local elections was more complex. On the one hand, it mirrored the patriarchal power structure, primarily the subordination of women to men, but on the other hand it also offered a forum for genuine feminist discourse.

A virtual stone soup: letter from the editors

This issue of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications features six papers covering the fields of Cloud/Grid/ Autonomic Computing, Recommendation Systems, Web Services, and Security. It is released when the greatest media event on Earth has just taken place: the Olympic Games of London 2012. The experience of The Games has been made more pervasive, in-depth, and personalized as never before with fans being able to follow their favorite sports on a multitude of hand-held devices, either live or asynchronously. An unprecedented computing infrastructure has been set up to produce and deliver, via Internet, content (schedules, news, records and result history, athlete profiles) and live feeds of most events, even those that are not to be broadcasted by any TV station. Cloud computing and cloud-enabled technologies were used for capturing, storing, editing, and enhancing content, such as projected flags on tracks and swimming pools, lines highlighting record marks in pools and sandboxes for track and field events. Encoding and streaming live and on-demand has required massive computation, storage, and network deployment. But, besides the sheer scale of equipment and deployment, there are also challenges and opportunities related to data handling and processing, as well as application integration. We thus see that this intensive use of computerrelated technologies and, in particular, of Internet-related

Aurora CMHC Immediately Puts Crisis Plan Into Action

Aurora CMHC Immediately Puts Crisis Plan Into Action

'Welcome to Chavezuela' - An Anatomy of Polarization in Today’s Venezuela

On 10 January 2007, Hugo Chavez was sworn in as president for the third time since 1998. A few days earlier, the President had already begun reshuffling his government (sacking old comrades such as Deputy President Jose Vicente Rangel). He also refused to renew a broadcasting licence for the private TV station Radio Caracas Television and announced the nationalisation of the telephone company CANTV. Not only have these initiatives re-invigorated the political warfare between Caracas and Washington, but they have also created tensions with the Organisation of American States and further aggravated the political conflict in the country.

Early Video Pioneer: An Interview with Skip Blumberg

SKIP BLUMBERG IS AN INFLUENTIAL FIGURE in evolution of independent video documentary and experimental filmmaking. He has produced hundreds of shorts, TV shows, installations, exhibitions, and multimedia performances and continues as an active mediamaker. Beginning in late 1960s, during inception of independent video, he collaborated with production groups including TVTV, Videofreex, Ant Farm, and Paper Tiger TV and with many other pioneering artists and independent videomakers, such as Nam June Paik and Shirley Clarke. Blumberg is active in independent video community, including having served as a board member of Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. From his seminal experimental video JGLNG (1976) to his classic video documentaries such as triple Emmy-winning Pick Up Your Feet: The Double Dutch Show (1982), to his more recent diaries such as Nam June Paik: Lessons from Video Master (2007) and experimental nonfiction video On Dream Street . . . (2012), Blumberg brings a distinctive, warm, personal approach to filmmaking. He was one of first one-person-crew camcorder reporters. Several hundred of Blumberg's movies are online and in distribution for home viewing and for academic and public screenings through Electronic Arts Intermix, Video Data Bank, and In Motion Productions, Inc. His videos have appeared on broadcast and cable TV and in museums and festivals around world, with retrospectives in Berlin Film Festival Videofest, Rotterdam Film Festival, and Dallas Video Festival. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ohio State University Journalism Award; has been named one of Esquire magazine's Best of Next Generation; and has been screened at Museum of Broadcasting's TV Critics' Favorite TV Shows of All Time event. He was also artistin- residence at several public TV stations, at Walker Art Center, and at 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. Blumberg has produced for Sesame Street (more than 150 shorts), Great Performances (700,000-plus online views), The 90's, National Geographic Explorer, and MyHero.com, as well as for nonprofits, including Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity and Twenty-First Century Foundation. Blumberg has been a US State Department cultural envoy in Senegal, Kosovo, Herzegovina, Slovakia, and other countries and a visiting filmmaker, artist-inresidence, and teacher at universities, schools, libraries, and media centers. Blumberg currently is Special Professor in MFA documentary program at Hofstra University School of Communication. melanie l a rosa: Let's start with what's happening with your early videos now. skip blumberg: I just returned from WRO Biennale in Poland- the leading forum for new media art in Central Europe-where there was a lot of exciting work and many inspiring media artists, a week of screenings, installations, concerts, performances-and it was gratifying to see audience's interest in early video screening. I was there with Abina Manning, from Video Data Bank. We screened newly restored videotapes from Videofreex Archive from 1969 to 1971, which are in vdb.org's collection. It was great to see contemporary audience connect with work and with activism of that time period. Videofreex has had a couple of other recent well-received screenings-in Brooklyn at Light Industry and in Washington, D.C. at DC Arts Center. I appreciate these screenings-and opportunity to talk to you about early videotapes, and that era, and history of video-because it was a rare and exciting phenomenon, a very special time. What's especially important is that it was beginning of medium of video, when it was brand new. And this is also a chance to speak to you and professors about a syndrome now that I've noticed in film schools and schools of communication where history of video is sometimes ignored. …

Just like a TV show: Public criminology and the media coverage of ‘hunt for Britain’s most wanted man’

The week-long police search for Raoul Moat in Northumbria in northeast England in the summer of 2010 formed a major news event across rolling 24/7 TV stations and newspapers. It is argued that much of the media coverage borrowed heavily from fictional depictions of crime. The boundaries between fictional and news representation are not only blurred by TV shows and movies that adopt a pseudo-verité style imitative of factual reporting but also, the Moat case suggests, by news media that borrow frameworks and formats from fictional media. The paper explores the role of academic commentary in such coverage and the opportunities that this might present for the development of a robust public criminology. It is argued that a better appreciation of the media framing of such events, as outlined in the first part of the paper, is crucial to the development of effective public criminological interventions in media coverage of high-profile criminal incidents.

Total Quality Management for the Audiovisual Broadcasting Systems

This paper presents the principles and the implementation phases of a Total Quality Management in the TV stations, showing at the same time the advantages of this process and its positive effects upon both the broadcasted programs and the amount of the production costs. The subject was approached by the author in her Ph.D. thesis, “The Management of the Audiovisual Communication Systems in Fuzzy Logic”, being an original and personal contribution in the TV management field.