Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from March 2003

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from March 2003

The evolution of the cables-satellite distribution system.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2003... The television industry began a dramatic transformation in the mid 1970s following the creation of the cable-satellite programming distribution system. This paper details the evolution of the cable-satellite link, from its conceptual roots in...

Exhibiting global television: on the business and cultural functions of global television fairs.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2003... Global television programming fairs, officially known as "sales markets" in the business, lie at the heart of international syndication. Such programming trade shows as MIP-TV (Marche International des Programmes de Television, or International...

Prime-time violence 1993-2001: has the picture really changed?(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2003... Concerns about television violence have sparked intense debate since television's earliest days. There is general agreement that violence exists on television, but because of differences in the way violence is defined and measured, there is...

Popular video games: quantifying the presentation of violence and its context.(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2003... Video games are one of the most recent forms of mass media to come under attack. Critics have charged that video games such as Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, and Doom are not only inundated with violence, but that playing such games may be having a...

Viewer aggression and homophily, identification, and parasocial relationships with television characters.
March 1, 2003... Since the early days of television, people have been concerned about the possible negative effects of television on violent or aggressive behavior. One research direction to studying these effects has been to explore people's perceptions of the...

Memory misattributions for characters in a television news story.
March 1, 2003... How well do viewers of television newscasts remember the who-did-what-to-whom narratives of the television news stories that they see? That is, how well can viewers retain in memory the identities of characters portrayed in news stories, those...

Making news memorable: applying theory to the production of local television news.
March 1, 2003... An increasing number of studies have documented that media consumers don't learn much from news, particularly broadcast news (Wilson, 1994; Neuman, 1976; Katz, Adoni, & Parness, 1977). Yet, television is the primary source of news information...

Attention-getting and comprehension-raising attributes in visuals in Dutch and American, public and private television news about violence.
March 1, 2003... Using visual aids is a hallmark of television news in the United States and the Netherlands. In the words of Henny Stoel (1996), a well-known news reader and editor of the Dutch NOS (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) news, "When you turn on the...

Whither digital television?
March 1, 2003... I was in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1995 watching with great interest as what was to become known as the Telecommunication Act of 1996 was being pieced together by Congress. Like many other optimistic broadcast scholars, I was...

High-definition television as policy failure.
March 1, 2003... Early in 1981 about a dozen Federal Communications Commission officials, including several commissioners and their assistants, filed into a darkened room in a building near Commission headquarters in Washington, DC, to witness the beginning of...

Who wants DTV?
March 1, 2003... The United States will have an all-digital terrestrial television broadcast system at some point in the first half of the 21st century. The key question is not whether this transition will take place, but rather how soon it will occur. Some...

The public interest obligations initiative: lost in the digital television shuffle.
March 1, 2003... Amidst all the discussion of digital television issues, such as transition deadlines, mandatory tuners, and must-carry provisions, one very important issue has fallen off of policymakers' radar screens. That is the issue of the public interest...