Television Channel Plan

The Virtual Channel Model for Personalized Television

This research is based on the realization that the desktop computing paradigm is not appropriate for television, because it is adapted to fundamentally different user aspirations and activities. Instead, the virtual channel is proposed as a model that explains the proper design of user access to personalized television programming. The virtual channel is a model that aids the organization and d...

From Minority to Mainstream: Channel 4’s Queer Television

Since its launch in 1982, Channel 4 has operated under a remit that demands that it serves the " tastes and interests not generally catered for " by other UK broadcasters.1 Owing to a professed " commitment to diversity, " C4 has ostensibly sought, in the decades since its inception, to make provision in its programming for under-represented groups, including ethnic and sexual minorities.2 The ...

Adjacent Channel DVB-H Interference into Analogue PAL Television

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DVB-T BER measurements in the presence of adjacent channel and co-channel analogue television interference

This paper presents some laboratory tests carried out to measure the BER degradation caused by an analogue PAL-G television interference on a COFDM 8K digital television signal. The tests made include co-channel and both upper and lower adjacent channel interference situations. Recently this year, the ITU-R has presented some protection ratios to be sought when planning DVB-T networks. The resu...

Professionalism, Oversight, and Institution- Balancing: The Supreme Court's "Second Best" Plan for Political Debate on Television