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Bailey, George – 1995
The purpose of this report is to identify changes in the radio environment, especially those which affect public radio's ability to compete. In Boston and other markets around the country, most formats have subdivided into targeted niches. The effect has been to even out station shares, so that rather than trying to reach mass audiences,…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Change, Competition, Futures (of Society)
Robinson, Karla Salmon – 1994
Like other industries, television has its own version of the used-car dealership or second-hand store: off-network syndication. Since researchers who study television have rarely investigated the market for these programs, a study examined program and marketplace characteristics to determine which contributes most to the successful syndication of…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Mass Media Use, Models, Programming (Broadcast)
Militello, Matthew – 2003
While its educational goals were yet to be defined, the aims of the radio in the early 1920s included the social goal of cultural pluralism; the economic goal of profiteering; the military goal of communicating, training, and surveillance; and, the political goal of propaganda and morale building. In the end, like previous technological advances,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Radio, Mass Media Use
Kunkel, Dale; Cope, Kirstie M.; Farinola, Wendy Jo Maynard; Biely, Erica; Rollin, Emma; Donnerstein, Edward – 1999
Media portrayals involving sexuality can contribute to the sexual socialization of young people. If television is an important source of information and potential influence about sex for young people, then obviously it is important to understand the nature and extent of sexual information that is being conveyed by television. This report contains…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Children, Content Analysis, Programming (Broadcast)
Balas, Glenda R. – 2000
Contending that public broadcasting has great potential to invigorate national discourses and to function as an agent of social change; at the beginning of the 21st century, many public television licensees are united solely by a core programming schedule and the need to raise funds at least four times a year. The paper traces the history of…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Educational Television, Government Role
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Metallinos, Nikos; Meimaris, Michael – Journal of Educational Media, 1996
Provides an overall view of the present state of educational broadcasting in Greece, discusses the main reasons that hinder its development, and proposes solutions for improvement. Government control and the direct imitation of foreign broadcasting programming are cited as two main problems that need to be overcome. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Television, Foreign Countries, Government Role
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Kalas, Andrea; Berenstein, Rhona J. – Journal of Film and Video, 1996
Looks at the ways in which the relationship between women and work was characterized during the late 1940s in "Woman Speaks," a combination newsreel/television show in Chicago. Expands upon the work of other historians and critics who have examined the representations of gender in early television marketing ploys and variety/situation…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Issues, Programming (Broadcast), Television
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Emmison, Michael; Goldman, Laurence – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Examines the complex nature of pretense as portrayed in a popular UK children's television puppet show. Argues that animality of puppets is rendered opaque as their identities as children are linguistically accomplished, leading to a piece of representational art structured by moral and behavioral dictates typical of conventional adult-child…
Descriptors: Children, Fantasy, Foreign Countries, Imagination
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Holderman, Lisa B. – New Jersey Journal of Communication, 2003
Examines the popular portrayal of intellectual expertise through a content analysis of 200 of the 10 top-rated popular US television talk shows. Shows that experts in this sample were typically brought on late in the program, allotted little speaking time, placed among non-experts, frequently interrupted, and sometimes challenged. Indicates that…
Descriptors: Anti Intellectualism, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Mass Media Role
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Hutchby, Ian – Discourse Processes, 1995
Investigates the management of expertise in advice-giving in the calls to a radio advice line. Analyzes how the expert's talk handles the tension between the personal and public dimensions of advice-giving in such a public forum. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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Varan, Duane – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1999
Discusses the Cook Islands experience in acquiring television and how highlighting push, pull, and temporal factors accounts for the creation and maintenance of dependency relationships. Demonstrates how the dependency relationships cannot be reduced to "natural" market forces but rather a range of strategies which Television New Zealand…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects
Horner, Tommy – Teleconferencing Business, 1998
Presents four ways to improve broadcasts of company satellite conferences, including creative site selection (using facilities at educational institutions rather than hotel rooms); creative programming (using graphics and other interruptions to break up lectures or speeches); creative crew selection; and creative downlink site activities (to…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Facilities, Graphic Arts, Program Improvement
Sanderson, Neil – American School Board Journal, 1998
Thousands of today's high school students run FM radio stations at school, carrying on a tradition that began 50 years ago. Radio helps students learn to work with others and develop a strong sense of responsibility. A sidebar gives advice on starting a high school radio station. (MLF)
Descriptors: Career Development, Education Work Relationship, High School Students, High Schools
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Avery, Robert K. – Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 1996
Discusses the paucity of serious academic research focusing on public broadcasting in the United States and Western Europe, the likely reasons for this, as well as the need to encourage more research. Details scholarly publishing in the 1990s in the field of public broadcasting. (JKP)
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Programming (Broadcast), Public Television, Publishing Industry
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Wilson, Barbara J.; Smith, Stacy L.; Potter, W. James; Kunkel, Dale; Linz, Daniel; Colvin, Carolyn M.; Donnerstein, Edward – Journal of Communication, 2002
Investigates the nature and extent of violence contained in television programming that targets children aged 12 and younger. Notes that the violence itself is just as likely to be glamorized in children's as in nonchildren's shows, but it is even more sanitized and more likely to be trivialized. Documents five subgenres of children's programming…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Childrens Television, Elementary Education, Programming (Broadcast)
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