... viewer. Innovation, change and hard work had not been particularly necessary in a static situation. Now they were suddenly essential. Contemporary Television Media in China In 1958, the first television station was set up in Beijing. After the economic reformation in 1980s, television industry boomed in China. By 2006, there are 296 stations and 2984 channels in China. There are ... number of stations are competing for rating and audience. Thus, a good broadcasting management is necessary. Management of Program Production Generally, a management team will decide what type of material th...

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... once again under scrutiny. In an article in Broadcasting & Cable titled The Gender Trap, Post Newsweek president Bill Ryan stated, "Any station, any network is vulnerable." Former Post Newsweek director Dow Smith claims that this law suit could leave any station susceptible for charges. (qtd. Trigboff 129: 20-25) Last year Columbia University published a journalism review documenting the attempt of one television ... create a news program that exemplified "old fashioned" news, where the story was the top concern instead of the look, age, or sex of the correspondent. The station was WBBM...

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... stations were regulated and licensed by the Department of Commerce. With the number of stations growing faster and faster, the department began to specify hours and wavelengths for which each station would be permitted to operate. However, in 1926, a federal court ruling stated that no one had a legal right to force restrictions. This resulted in the interference between signals from stations ... to the radio act of 1927. Found on FCC.com, The Act of 1927 stated that the newly founded "Federal Radio Commission" would regulate station frequencies and on-air hours. Within the Act was the ...

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... show featuring normal people with unique hobbies and talents. Throughout his stay Allen took notes on the business side of entertainment, learning the workings of television production. By personally calling station owners, programming directors and advertisers, one-by-one and market-by-market from his dining room he learned business of advertising and syndication. The rest was up from there. It ... produces about 10 new hours of content each week. Each week he churns out 10 hours of new content. Being the Capitalist that he is Allen's strategy involves meeting TV station demands for pr...

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... are assured that his show will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting," said John Hogan, president and CEO of Clear Channel Radio. Stern replied that he had tripled the station's revenues and that New York advertisers paid $15,000 per minute. That figure alone shows how much revenue a talk show such as Howard Stern can help US economy and if ... and their kids grow up fine. Howard Stern is a radio show that is not out there in front of your nose. To listen to it you have to switch the station. If you don't believe in what he says or don't like what he talks about th...

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... , and then heavily choreographed. (Eric Cramer 1-25)There has been many of cases where they the people have found out the candles and the television station got cough and suede. In the television show Survivor the the station was sued because producers thought a certain individual was bad for ratings. Therefore, the told the other contestants to vote them off the island and ... ...

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... very often created and based mostly on speculation based on rumors. The media feeds itself and bombards most people with news that is either speculative, or manipulated according to the station's or editor's views based on their political, religious, or general life style. He feels that anyone making a decision based on the media must be better educated in order to really ... impact at the time, until it was broadcasted on TV and all the world leaders were parading at the funeral. He first found out about 9/11 when he watching a European station and at first thought it was an accident. ...

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... the first time. He was not terribly popular in college"(Leamer, 1989). As soon as Johnny graduated college in 1949, he went to work for WOW, the most important radio station in Nebraska. On August 1, 1949, The Johnny Carson Show went on the air each morning form eight fifteen until nine o"clock. This was really a variety news show where he told ... time with chit chat. On October 1, 1949, Johnny and Jody were married. While Johnny was at WOW, television was becoming an emerging force in broadcasting. WOW had just started a television station in the summer of 1949, and Johnny was enthusi...

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... pillow, reclined my side of the sofa, and grabbed my soft velvet afghan. I pressed the button on the remote control; the TV flared to life, and I was appalled with every station I switched to, from factual stories in the news, to the violence in the movies being shown, to the so called comedy of the cartoons, the shows all revolved around violence ... by TV with the same importance. Any violence is TV news, the video capture and sound bite is what TV deems important. I keep clicking again and again. Is there any station broadcasting news that is not "violent"? I choose next to find a mo...

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... share the Stanley Cup Finals. The NHL's championship series. (It should also be noted that ABC owns ESPN). The problem with TV deal is that ESPN is a paid for cable station, which means that you can only watch the finals games on ESPN if you have cable. Because of this, hockey doesn't get as much exposure as other sports do too ... was on ESPN for people to watch in all parts of the country except the Tri-State area. Here, we are expected to watch the game on the Devils local station, which happens to be FOX Sports Net NY. The only problem with this is that my cable deal doesn't give me...

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... into or up to this great responsibility, that there has to be something to fall back on. Unfortunately, that fall back seems to lead back to station programming. I guess it is now or never that station programming needs to step up and think about what their programming is, and who will be watching. I am enrolled in a class called Culture, Race, and Media ... ...

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... rating and parents won't have to worry about it. Many TV's now are being made with the V-Chip in them. It really is a good way for parents to block the station and keep teens away from TV violence. As a result to this teens have been less aggressive towards other classmates and other teens, many who watch violent TV become very careless ... ; it's the choice of the parents to take this into consideration. Many teens will rebel but set them down and talk to them; make sure they know why their favorite station was taken away and how it could affect them if they got too immune to violent pr...

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... an outside group step in and stop what is being shown. A couple of years ago a man pulled out a gun and shot himself in front of a new conference. All the news station had their own video of it and each had to decide when to stop showing the recording of the event. Do they show the man in front of the group ... his final curse and then stop? Do they show him pulling the trigger and killing himself and then stop? Do they show the entire event and the reactions afterward? Each station decided when to stop. According to some studies, the violence acts shown on TV, inspires children to do t...

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... operators were particularly hit hard by the restrictions. The importance of radio to the military was immediately noticeable. In August, 1914, the Belgians had to completely destroy a major international communications station located near Brussels, in order to keep it from falling into the hands of the advancing German army. Immediately following World War One, the Navy Department attempted to gain a complete ... over all radio communication. That effort failed, so the Navy began to develop ideas for promoting interest in radio, since amateurs were a ready reserve of operators. On Octo...

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... local news. Stark says, "A 1990 study published by the Columbia Journalism Review found that eighteen of thirty-two stories analyzed on local news were inaccurate or misleading, and the station usually made no attempt to correct the mistakes." (387). Clearly, these misconceptions and inaccurate information are affecting the people. These lies have been causing the people confusion. People do ... ...

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... children see this material anyway? The American people put pressure on the big television companies to begin a ratings system on TV shows several years ago. The result was every large station suggesting their own system, with the exclusion of NBC. The government then opted for a system similar to the one used to rate movies. Generic letters suggesting a certain group of people ... ...

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... the TV chat show, People Are Talking. For eight years Winfrey stayed with the hit show until she was recruited to host her own morning show, A.M. Chicago, by a Chicago TV station. Phil Donahue was a major competitor of hers. Winning her 100,000 more viewers than Donahue, Winfrey's open, warm-hearted personal style had taken her show from last place to first ... ...

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... the following elements: The deregulation of most cable TV rates by 1999. • • Elimination of the FCC rule barring single ownership of multiple TV stations. Increased the broadcaster's TV station audience from twenty-five percent • to thirty-five percent. Ended the FCC limited ban on networks than owned • cable systems. Allowed competition between telephone and cable companies &bull ... ...

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... in 2003. Films premiering this year that are believed to help increase revenues even more are "X-men 2" and "Dare Devil," which is in theaters now. Fox also increased their television station revenues by 101 million dollars. Fox's TV revenues in 2001 were 499 million dollars and jumped to 598 million dollars in 2002, and they hope to break the 650 million ... ...

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... a greater influence in our lives than our parents and teachers do. The broadcasters are now the ones who have the power over us. What they decide to air on their station is what is now used to influence our everyday lives. Whether it is our fashion style to who we want to vote for, they help to influence it. The broadcasters ... ...

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... edge, and ask if your man enough to take it. They call it reality TV, but how real is it. The show is directed towards men, along with the whole station. The show covers one exercise for each of the four military services. What this show does with each one of these is hype them up. It uses all the "fast ... ...

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... that more discretion should be used when reporting? A rating is an estimate of the percentage of the total number of people or households inn the total population tuned to a specific station or network during a specific time period. Ratings quantify the value of television advertising. They also help determine the success or failure of TV programs. Ratings are an objective estimate of ... ...

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... zoned into their television set and sit there and watch it all day long without moving a single muscle. It is very easy to become addicted to a certain television show or station. Being addicted to the program is what the people who run the show want you to be so that the show can get more ratings and make more money. If ... ...

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... were huge. The bill in effect increase the numbe of stations a company could own. This caused a frenzy of buying and selling of radio stations. The bill also effected television and station ownership, it removed the number of stations that could be owned (as long as less than 35% of Americas homes were reached). Various other changes took place as well they ... ...

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... zoned into their television set and sit there and watch it all day long without moving a single muscle. It is very easy to become addicted to a certain television show or station. Being addicted to the program is what the people who run the show want you to be so that the show can get more ratings and make more money. If ... ...

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