OBJECTIVE To characterise the relative amount and type of daily newspaper, local and national TV newscast, and national news magazine coverage of tobacco control issues in the United States in 2002 and 2003. DESIGN Content analysis of daily newspapers, news magazines, and TV newscasts. SUBJECTS Items about tobacco in daily newspapers, local and national TV newscasts, and three national news...

Television has long been recognized as a significant source of news for the mass public. Research shown rise and fall in public viewing on television due to advancement digital technologies. Younger audiences, particular, have turned social media access this trend is rapidly growing. The current study sought ascertain if was case people who may continue watch despite said technological advances...

Modern TV or radio news talk-shows include a variety of sequences which comply with specific journalistic patterns, including debates, interviews, reports. The paper deals with automatic chapter generation for TV news talk-shows, according to these different journalistic genres. It is shown that linguistic and speaker-distribution based features can lead to an efficient characterization of thes...

This paper describes the COALA (Content-Oriented Audiovisual Library Access) project, which aims to offer a framework for the retrieval of audiovisual TV news documents. COALA’s principal design features are based on the analysis of a classical archive system: TSR (Television Suisse Romande) archive. It provides a retrieval interface allowing simple/advanced search capabilities combined with hi...

The integration of semantic technologies and television services is an important innovation in traditional broadcasting in order to improve services delivered to end users in an extended home environment: new methods emerge for getting TV content via the Web and interacting with TV content on end users devices. This paper gives a short description of a Personalized Semantic News scenario in the...

Television news has gained a new dimension in terms of ideological approaches as a result of such factors as globalization, cross monopolization, presence of international companies etc. and certain strategies have been developed at the production, presentation and distribution stages of news. In this study, television news about a process called “settlement process” was investigated. In this f...

This paper proposes a content-based video indexing system which provides the functionalities necessary for automatic management of video data through integration of syntactic and semantic features. The proposed system has been applied to detection, classiication and then indexing of news programs collected from diierent TV channels. Although the paper focuses on news programs, the same methods ...

There is a great need for more TV programs to be closed-captioned to help hearing impaired and elderly people watch TV. For that purpose, automatic speech recognition is expected to contribute to providing text from speech in real-time. NHK has been using speech recognition for closed-captioning of some of its news, sports and other live TV programs. In news programs, automatic speech recogniti...