- Television coverage of the 1995 legislative election
in Taiwan: rise of cable television as a force for balance in media
coverage.
Before the emergence of cable television, Taiwan was served by three state-controlled broadcast television stations. The triple alliance of the government, the military, and the ruling party (Kuomintang, KMT) has monopolized the television industry (Lee, 1993). Consequently, television coverage of election campaigns was overwhelmingly pro-KMT and its candidates, while coverage ......
- Blanket License For File Sharing: Easier Said Than Done
Despite all of the efforts by the record industry -- including educational initiatives, Congressional lobbying and lawsuits -- illegal file sharing of copyrighted music continues to thrive and poses a huge challenge to existing business models. Some representatives of the music industry and, lately, even of file sharing companies, believe ......
- RAI launches Umbriafiction TV with international
support.
RAI Launches Umbriafication TV With International Support Umbriafiction TV needs to be explained. It is not publicized as a market, and it is not a pure festival, nor is it just a conference. But, it could well be a pre-MIP-TV market, it has a competition, therefore it is fair to ......
- Lights, camera ... action!
The familiar phrase of 'lights, camera ... action!' has been heard repeatedly over past few years in Saskatchewan, but certainly the emphasis has been on action, as Saskatchewan's film and television industry has recently exploded to new heights. Anchored in large part by the resoundingly successful television sitcom, Corner Gas, ......
- City intensifies fight with cable TV industry; Bradley
wants regulation.
The City of Los Angeles is battling the cable television industry on several fronts, and the one consistent theme is that the city wants more control -- over rates, service and which company operates where. When it comes to competition, however, the water gets muddy. On the one hand, the ......
- Italy's new hall of mirrors: Berlusconi's
media cover Berlusconi.
Silvio Beriusconi, Italy's new prime minister, is by all accounts a remarkable man, although what kind of remarkable is in dispute. According to his supporters, he is a self-made broadcasting tycoon who took on Italy's state television monopoly and through risk, creativity, and hard work, broke the monopoly and built ......
- A longitudinal analysis of foreign program imports on South Korean television, 1978-2002: a case of rising indigenous capacity in program supply.
The purpose of this study is to trace the trajectory of South Korea's (hereinafter referred to as South Korea or Korea) dependency on imported television programs by investigating the presence of foreign imports on the country's terrestrial television over the past 25 years. Korea fits well as an illustrative case ......