Download or read book I Want to Change My Life written by Barrie Gunter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition talent shows have been among the most popular on television in the 21st century. The producers of these shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities to change their lives by showcasing a specific skill leading to a new career trajectory. Most participants will claim that they entered to get a big break and to develop a career they have always dreamed of. To what extent do these shows deliver on such promises? Following through what happens to leading contestants in singing, entertainment, modelling, cooking and business entrepreneur competitions, this book shows that few go on to achieve lasting success in their chosen career. Many return to obscurity or to their previous lives. Some enjoy a low level career in the new direction delivered by the competition they entered. Just a few become truly successful. The pop and entertainment themed contests have discovered just a handful of major pop stars and entertainers out of many hundreds who have taken part after the initial auditions. Turning to the cookery or business franchises, there are few who go on to achieve lasting success in their chosen career. In these it is equally likely that the winners go on to enjoy success with media careers rather than as chefs or entrepreneurs. The most successful franchise of all is the fashion model competition (Next Top Model), which has yielded a high hit rate in terms of career success. What the analysis here also reveals is that it isn’t only the winners who ultimately benefit the most from their appearances in these shows. Moreover, television picks its own stars by recruiting contestants because they are telegenic or have a good backstory as much as for their relevant talents. In this way, a talent hungry medium has co-opted these franchises to replenish its own needs.

Download or read book Competition and Technological Change in the Television Industry written by Erik Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Video Media Competition written by Eli M. Noam and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competition in Television written by Huw Wheldon and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technology Television and Competition written by Jeffrey A. Hart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analogue television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates over digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and Japan was the eventual victory of the ideas of digitalism (the superiority of everything digital over everything analogue) and of digital convergence (the merging of computing, telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructures made possible by digitalization) in public debates over standards. Jeffrey Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism combined with digitalism to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the three regions, an outcome which has led to missed opportunities in developing the new technologies. Hart's book contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world's great economic powers.

Download or read book Who Owns the Media written by Benjamin M. Compaine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-07-13 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited third edition analyzes corporate ownership of major media, including television, film, on-line, and print, and includes primary influences, government's roles, and key criteria for evaluating the current state of media ownership.

Download or read book Toward Competition in Cable Television written by Leland L. Johnson and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the major sources of competition to the cable television industry, such as telephone companies, direct broadcast satellite services, and traditional broadcasting stations.

Download or read book Television and Competition written by Alasdair Milne and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding Competition and Diversity in Television Programming Economic crisis TV written by Andreas Masouras and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines and analyses the diversity of television content. More specifically, it provides an in-depth study of the development of television content. We attempt to study content through the concept of diversity, which is considered as being

Download or read book Competition in Television Production Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technology Television and Competition written by Jeffrey A. Hart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Competition Among Japan the U S and Europe Over High definition Television written by Ellis S. Krauss and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Competition in Television written by Huw Wheldon and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Media Industry Programming Competition and Copyright Issues written by Ryan E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media industry plays a vital role in informing and entertaining the public. Media ownership and the availability of diverse programming have been a long-standing concern of Congress. Despite numerous programming choices in television and radio available to the public, some studies have reported that independently produced programming, that is, programming not affiliated with broadcast networks or cable operators, has decreased through the years. This book discusses the extent to which the sources of television programming have changed over the last decade; the factors industry stakeholders identified as affecting the availability of independent television programming; and the factors industry stakeholders identified as influencing decisions in radio.