Video Year Book
With its higher power and superior video and audio quality, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) communications is proliferating worldwide. Many new DBS systems are evolving and with the introduction of HDTV, DBS technology is predicted to become even more prevalent. Written by a leading DBS authority, this book is required reading for anyone involved in this burgeoning field. This comprehensive reference describes the history and structure of DBS systems, the regulatory environment, the subsystem...
This book traces the development of the broadcasting system in Canada from the inception of television in 1952 to the passing of the Broadcast Act of 1968, focusing on the policy decisions made by governments and broadcasting authorities and the circumstances under which they were made. Several public investigations of the system and its performance took place during television's first sixteen years in Canada and their aims and outcomes form an important part of the story.The book deals with the...
Pirate Radio Stations: Tuning in to Underground Broadcasts in the Air and Online
by Andrew Yoder
This book pinpoints the newest, most active pirate stations. It covers the Internet pirate radio, with URL directory. Experience radio's swashbuckling side! 74 minutes of audio from dozens of underground stations. Listening to pirate radio is perfectly legal - and frequently an ear-opening experience. This book makes it easier for you to locate and tune in to pirate radio stations - and tells you all about the unlicensed broadcasters who play David to broadcasting conglomerates' Goliath.Inside,...
Nuclear Development Nuclear Power Plant Life Management and Longer-Term Operation (Nuclear Development)
The Historias de La Television En America Latina (Estudios de Television, #15)
by Guillermo Orozco
This book should be of interest to courses in corporate video, professional video, nonbroadcast video and business TV.
When Garth Ancier left NBC for the start-up FOX network, NBC head Grant Tinker told Ancier he was making a terrible mistake. "I will never put a fourth column on my schedule board," Ancier recalls Tinker telling him. "There will only be three." Today, fewer than twenty years later, FOX is routinely referred to as one of the "Big Four" television networks while more recent arrivals like UPN, PAX, and the WB strive to be number five. The Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, an...
Career Opportunities in Television, Cable, Video, and Multimedia (Career Opportunities in...)
by Maxine K Reed, Robert M. Reed, and Lee Phenner
He has been a general manager of a television station; she has distributed programs and been a program manager. They describe over 100 careers for those who want to follow the bright lights in such areas as programming, production, news, management and administration, and advertising. For each, they
HD-DVD Demystified (Demystified)
by Jim Taylor, Charles Crawford, Christian Armbrust, and Michael Zink
"HD DVD Demystified" describes the strengths, weaknesses, and common traps for new developers and authors of this important format. Providing you with an outline of the technology of HD DVD, it makes sense of the battling video, audio, and data formats and also covers content protection.
Fibre Optics and Cable Television Business Strategy
by Robert K. Yates, etc., Nolwen Mahe, and Jerome Masson
Blends technical detail and industry analysis in coverage of all aspects of fiber optics as it relates to CATV. Includes applications of principles and sufficient technical information to plan an advanced cable system, and can be used for strategic planning as well as engineering and network plannin
Manipulacion de La Informacion Televisiva (Paidos Communicacion, #35)
by Lorenzo Vilches