The responsibility of television programme planners

Framing Responsibility on Local Television News

Acknowledgments: There are many who deserve thanks for their roles in the development of this project. First and foremost, this research would not have been possible without funding from the Jesse Bell duPont Fund. My Masters Thesis committee members were instrumental in providing ideas and fine tuning the finished product. The raw data provided by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, espe...

Consulting patterns after a television programme on sexually transmitted diseases.

The effect on the work load in one of two clinics featured in a television programme devoted to the sexually transmitted diseases was monitored. The patients' source of referral was recorded before and after the programme and the number of telephone inquiries noted during the same periods. For the two weeks after the programme 18% of the male patients and 13% of the female patients attending th...

High dynamic range television for production and international programme exchange

TST programme of USTC

Alternative medicine in Bangladesh context means Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine. Government recognizes and patronizes allopathic (modern and western) medicine. This system through Government Institutions viz. hospitals and health care centres can offer services to only about 30% people. The other two systems (Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic) can serve 50-60% people. Limited health man...

The Impact Of Television Programme On The Mindset And Attitudes Of Youths In The Rural Areas

Issues on the role of television as a medium of education and persuasion, apart from entertainment and information gathering have been widely discussed and debated by researchers in the past (see for example, Zajonc 1968, Tan, Fujioka & Tan 2001, Mastro & Tropp 2004). In this case, television is seen as a medium that is capable of positively educating and influencing the attitudes and mindset o...