Download or read book Local Programming on Broadcast Cable and Satellite Television written by Charles B. Goldfarb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most broadcast television stations' viewing areas extend far beyond the borders of their city of license, and in many cases extend beyond state borders. Under existing FCC rules, which are intended to foster "localism," the licensee's explicit public interest obligation is limited to serving the needs and interests of viewers within the city of license. Yet, in many cases, the population residing in the city of license is only a small proportion of the total population receiving the station's signal. Hundreds of thousands of television households in New Jersey (outside New York City and Philadelphia), Delaware (outside Philadelphia), western Connecticut (outside New York City), New Hampshire (outside Boston), Kansas (outside Kansas City, Missouri), Indiana (outside Chicago), Illinois (outside St. Louis), and Kentucky (outside Cincinnati) have little or no access to broadcast television stations with city of license in their own state. The same holds true for several rural states ? including Idaho, Arkansas, and especially Wyoming, where 54.55% of television households are located in television markets outside the state. Although market forces often provide broadcasters the incentive to be responsive to their entire serving area, that is not always the case. This report provides, for each state, detailed county-by-county data on the percentage of television households located in television markets outside the state and whether there are any in-state stations serving those households. The Nielsen Designated Market Areas ("DMAs") also often extend beyond state borders. Local cable operators are required to carry the broadcast signals of television stations located in their DMA. If they are located in a DMA for which the primary city is in another state, and most or all of the television stations in that DMA have city of license in the other state, then the broadcast television signals they must carry will be primarily or entirely from out of state. In some cases, they may not be allowed to carry signals from within the state but outside the DMA to provide news or sports programming of special interest in their state because of network non-duplication, syndicated exclusivity, or sports programming blackout rules or because of private network affiliation contract agreements, or may be discouraged to do so because these signals do not qualify for the royalty-free permanent compulsory copyright license for local broadcast signals. The Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 expanded the scope of in-state television signals that satellite operators are permitted (and in some cases required) to offer subscribers. In addition to the signals of those broadcast television stations with city of license within the DMA in which the subscriber is located ("local-into-local" service), satellite operators may offer (subject to certain restrictions) signals from outside the DMA if those signals are "significantly viewed" by those households in the subscriber's geographic area that only receive their broadcast signals over-the-air (not via cable or satellite). In addition, satellite operators may offer certain subscribers located in New Hampshire, Vermont, Mississippi, and Oregon certain in-state signals from outside the subscribers' DMA and must offer subscribers in Alaska and Hawaii certain in-state signals.
Download or read book Localism written by Charles B. Goldfarb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadcast cable Programming written by Susan Tyler Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely used text (over 250 adoptions) offers a current strategies approach to broadcast and cable programming, with network/local and commercial/noncommercial perspectives. It focuses on three primary responsibilities of programming executives: (1) evaluating audiences and programs; (2) selecting programs; and (3) scheduling, or organizing, programs into coherent program services. The book is divided into five major sections: Part One introduces the concepts and vocabulary for understanding the remaining chapters; Parts Two through Five look at programming strategy respectively for television, cable, radio, and public broadcasting from the perspective of industry programming experts.
Download or read book Satellite Television Access and Viewer Rights Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broadcast Television Industry written by James Robert Walker and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first look at the particular strengths and weaknesses of broadcast television written during the new age of television: an era that includes cable, home video, and digital satellite systems as competing distribution systems.The Broadcast Television Industry is a current, comprehensive review of the dominant distributor of television programming in the United States. The book reviews the history and current practices of both commercial and public television. Separate chapters explore the regulation of television, the operation of local stations and national networks, audience research, the impact of our most pervasive medium, and the future of broadcasting as a means of television distribution in an increasingly competitive environment. Broadcast and cable television managers and employees.Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Mass Communication
Download or read book Blue Skies written by Patrick Parsons and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.
Download or read book How Not To Pay For Cable Or Satellite Television written by Marna Sieck and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average cable bill in the U.S. costs $107 per month. We're here to tell you there's a better way. By taking simple steps like switching to a live streaming service, using a TV antenna, or taking advantage of free TV options, you can drastically cut that bill down, if not eliminate it entirely. In this book, you'll learn: - How to get free broadcast TV - What channels are available free where you live - What channels are available on which services - Which local channels are available via the Internet - How to watch FREE TV and Movies via the Internet - Which devices support which services - How to use a DVR with an antenna - Which antenna do you need
Download or read book Direct Broadcast Satellite Service and Competition in the Multichannel Video Distribution Market written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scrambling of Satellite TV Signals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States written by Megan Mullen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, McGannon Communications Research Award, 2004 In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable television to the first uses of movable type and the invention of the telephone. Cable's proponents in the late 1960s and early 1970s hoped it would eventually remedy all the perceived ills of broadcast television, including lowest-common-denominator programming, inability to serve the needs of local audiences, and failure to recognize the needs of cultural minorities. Yet a quarter century after the "blue sky" era, cable television programming closely resembled, and indeed depended upon, broadcast television programming. Whatever happened to the Sloan Commission's "revolution now in sight"? In this book, Megan Mullen examines the first half-century of cable television to understand why cable never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication. Using textual analysis and oral, archival, and regulatory history, she chronicles and analyzes cable programming developments in the United States during three critical stages of the medium's history: the early community antenna (CATV) years (1948-1967), the optimistic "blue sky" years (1968-1975), and the early satellite years (1976-1995). This history clearly reveals how cable's roots as a retransmitter of broadcast signals, the regulatory constraints that stymied innovation, and the economic success of cable as an outlet for broadcast or broadcast-type programs all combined to defeat most utopian visions for cable programming.
Download or read book Broadcast Television in Transition written by Charles B. Goldfarb and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market and technological changes are creating challenges to the long-standing business models employed by broadcast television networks and local television stations, but at the same time generating potential opportunities for those networks and stations. These changes generally are strengthening the position of parties that control popular program content in their negotiations with distributors of that programming. The changes also may be affecting the three pillars of U.S. government media policy - localism, diversity of voices and competition - and damping the effectiveness of existing regulations intended to foster them. This book explores the transitions being made in broadcast television with a focus on the market forces affecting broadcast news networks and the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA).
Download or read book My TV for Seniors written by Michael R. Miller and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy, clear, readable, and focused on what you want to do. Step-by-step instructions that show you exactly how and where to watch what you want to watch. Help when you have specific questions. Tips and notes to help you get the most from local, cable, satellite, and streaming TV. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through watching TV today on a variety of devices—and saving money doing so. Learn how to Cut the cable and satellite cord Save money on your cable or satellite TV bill Watch local TV stations for free Choose the best TV and streaming media player for you Connect and use an Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, or Roku streaming media player Watch Amazon Prime Video, CBS All Access, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Net_ ix, Peacock, and other streaming video services Watch live streaming video services like AT&T TV, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV Find where to best watch sporting events Get a better picture with HD, 4K, 8K, and HDR Get better sound with a sound bar or surround
Download or read book My TV for Seniors written by Michael Miller and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers What, How, and Where to Watch TV for Less Millions of people are cutting the cord on old-fashioned cable TV plans, and choosing more modern, efficient, and cost-effective ways to watch their favorite programming and movies. My TV for Seniors is an exceptionally easy and complete full-color guide to all the services and hardware you’ll need to do it. No ordinary “beginner’s book,” it approaches every topic from a senior’s point of view, using meaningful examples, step-by-step tasks, large text, close-up screen shots, and a full-color interior designed for comfortable reading. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through watching TV today on a variety of devices–and saving money doing so. Learn how to Cut the cable and satellite cord Save money on your cable or satellite TV bill Watch local TV stations for free Choose the best TV and streaming media player for you Connect and use an Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, or Roku device Watch Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, and other streaming video services Use live streaming services like DirecTV Now, fuboTV, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, and YouTube TV Find where to best watch sporting events Get a better picture with HD, Ultra HD, and HDR Get better sound with a sound bar or surround sound system Watch TV on your phone, tablet, or computer An AARP TV for Grownups publication
Download or read book Satellite Television Laws in Title 17 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media Localism written by Christopher Ali and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.
Download or read book Satellite Broadcasting written by Ralph Negrine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, this book provides a thorough examination of the possibilities and key issues in satellite technology which at the time already seemed likely to change the face of broadcasting both within nations and internationally. It begins with a guide to the technical development of different systems of satellites and signal reception and an outline of the international, political and regulatory issues involved. It then examines the situation in various industrialised countries by analysing launching plans, funding, the interaction between satellite, cable and VCRs and the effect on existing broadcasting systems. Concerned throughout with a wide range of cultural considerations and the potential impacts of the new media, this is a useful reflection on the time.
Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
