Television

Television (TV), sometimes shortened to tele or telly, is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television show, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but it would still be several years before the new technology would be marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became …

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Fraser Institute · 16 October 2024 English

The annual index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which people in 165 jurisdictions around the globe are allowed to make their own economic choices. …

actresses and belly dancers, performed the tango on television, and mused aloud about forming a nearly all-female


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the best shows ever produced and one of the finest depictions of life in classical and a drama that raises vital questions about the role of the arts in society. Kuchar reads the television show – ever fluctuating between faith and doubt in the power of drama – as an allegory of Peter

Slings & arrows (Television program) | lcsh: Shakespeare, William, 1564– 1616—Television adaptations. | | lcsh: Television adaptations—History and criticism. Classification: lcc pn1992.77.s62 k83 2024 | ddc academ- ically controversial three-season Canadian television series Slings & Arrows (2003–06). On one hand sometimes said of television as a medium. According to Jean Baudrillard, television “cools and neutralizes tions without originals.6 From this perspective, television induces an 4 Shakespeare and the World of Slings


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure

contemporary ghost hunters, despite the my- riad television shows, documentaries, and YouTube channels dedi- medium- specific qualities of photography, film, television, video, and digital networks. Ghosts are transmedial look like photographs. And moving images. And television broadcasts. And electronic video playback. And ghosts and haunting across photography, film, television, video, and networked new media – that is, the Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, Sconce argues that the history of electronic


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

whole thing bewildered me, but hey ho, kids’ television started at 4 p.m., so I didn’t really care. It on my life as a child. These people were on television or in the news, and I’d 13 ESSEX BOYsee them hard that when he got home, he’d watch some television, have his dinner, and fall asleep shortly after only reference to Advent was via Blue Peter, a television show that probably every child in the country Snowman and Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer on television, and movies about Allied sol- diers escaping


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

worked both in radio and on TV, began transmitting television shows in 1952, and IBM produced its first computer printed in Explorations. The one pertaining to television directs its pro- ducers to ensure that “the moral


NSP: New Society Publishers · 8 October 2024 English

Everyone's guide to using the power of science to produce healthier and tastier fruits and vegetables From garden to fork, Food Science for Gardeners is everyone's guide to optimizing the …

Creator and Host of Emmy Award-winning PBS television series, Growing a Greener World ® and Founder


DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English

101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg film was raided for for obscenity? Why was Oliver Reed arrested while shooting The Brood ? Which iconic Canadian television series was syndicated in over fifty different countries? Which Canadian film critic wrote a full-page and the worst, the firsts and the lasts, and the groundbreaking truths behind Canada’s film and television industry.

LCSH: Motion pictures—Canada—Miscellanea. | LCSH: Television programs—Canada—Miscellanea. Classification: unsung efforts are keeping Canadian film and television alive and onlineThis page was intentionally left blankPREFACE There are 101 Canadian film and television facts in this book. There could be 101 more facts in our one hundred years of cinema, with television not far behind. One hundred and one facts are and Dim the Fluorescents? Will my favourite television shows, like The Road to Avonlea, the inexcusably


Fraser Institute · 26 September 2024 English

programs observed its own fiscal principles. A machine content analysis of CBC and CTV network television and cable public affairs programs was conducted to assess media coverage of the new social programs cost of the programs was mentioned in only 0.6% of the government press releases and 4% of the television coverage (CTV 4.1% and CBC 3.7%). Budget and fiscal issues more broadly were covered in 3.5% of

machine content analysis of CBC and CTV net- work television and cable public affairs programs was conducted the government press releases and 4% of the television coverage (CTV 4.1% and CBC 3.7%). • Budget maintain the principles of the fiscal plan. Role of television When assessing media coverage, sometimes the Care readership, 67% of Canadians still rely on television to fol- low news and current affairs, and among than 55 it is 88% (Statistics Canada, 2023). Television news is easily accessible, and the visuals enrich


Fraser Institute · 26 September 2024 English

programs observed its own fiscal principles. A machine content analysis of CBC and CTV network television and cable public affairs programs was conducted to assess media coverage of the new social programs cost of the programs was mentioned in only 0.6% of the government press releases and 4% of the television coverage (CTV 4.1% and CBC 3.7%). Budget and fiscal issues more broadly were covered in 3.5% of

NEWS RELEASE 96% of television news coverage of Ottawa’s child care, dental care and pharma care programs recent years, but Canadians—many of whom rely on television news for their information—have not been given The study, a content analysis of CTV and CBC television news coverage from 2021 to 2024, finds that of CTV coverage, and just 3.7 per cent of CBC television coverage reported the specific costs of the


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 September 2024 English

In a rare convergence of academic and political worlds, Professor Morton draws on his experience as a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, inviting readers into a reflection on Alberta’s …

senator-in-waiting.”4 And it worked. Both print and television media showed up, and we got lots of coverage


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