BACKGROUND The No Germs on Me (NGoM) Social Marketing Campaign to promote handwashing with soap to reduce high rates of infection among children living in remote Australian Aboriginal communities has been ongoing since 2007. Recently three new television commercials were developed as an extension of the NGoM program. This paper reports on the mass media component of this program, trialling an e...

We describe an operational program that l o cates objects in a television image and traces their edges. The program accommodates the te levision camera, maximizing dynamic range during acquisit ion and sensi t iv i ty during t racing, to obtain the most appropriate image for each phase. If the trace routine loses an edge, various heurist ics diagnose the d i f f i c u l t y and tune both the ca...

This article focuses on the German television (“TV”) market from an antitrust perspective, limited to some competition aspects of the technical and program side of the German TV market. On the technical side, we are in a situation of an emerging market for digital TV where a TV household needs a decoder in order to transfer digital TV signals into analog TV signals, because most households stil...

The paper focuses on how a local station of Indonesian public television, i.e., TVRI Yogyakarta, framed the news about 2010 Mt. Merapi eruption. Applying textual analysis model developed by Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki, analyses program Yogyakarta called ‘Berita Yogya’ from 26th October to 14th November 2010. study finds that has emphasized figures or element ‘who’ in news, especially co...

Автор рассматривает эстетическую природу телевидения, составляющие компоненты художественного образа, язык выразительных средств различных искусств и природную связь ТВ с кинематографом. The article examines the aesthetic nature of television, components artistic image, «language» expressive means arts and natural connection TV with cinema.

The established digital video broadcasting networks can do more than transmit the ordinary TV program to the viewer’s living room. The future of digital television will be interactive. Especially for local communities or people who are not familiar with computers, local cable networks can be an interesting alternative to the global Internet. We present a technology platform for using the tradit...

The television is currently the most important mass media. On the other hand, the World Wide Web is showing as another important mass media which can easily provide interactivity. The combination of the Web and the television can make the classical TV more attractive as well as more interactive. First, we propose a scheme which offers Web pages related to a TV program as an added-value service....

Between early August 1990 and the end of February 1991, coverage Persian Gulf War on Cable News Network (CNN) television showcases a comprehensive example simulacra. Based Jean Baudrillard's ideas postmodern simulacra simulation, this paper attempts to demonstrate how appeared before Nepali audience through domestic nationwide channel. The major source news perspectives contents Nepal Televisio...