Appendix A: Non-Executive Directors of Channel 4 1981–92
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Grille Des Canaux Classique Février 2019
Shaw Direct | Grille des canaux classique février 2019 Légende 639 CTV Prince Albert ..................................... 092 Nat Geo WILD HD..................................... 210 ICI Télé Montreal HD ............................... 023 CTV Regina HD .......................................... 091 National Geographic HD ...................... 707 ICI Télé Ontario .......................................... Chaînes HD 648 CTV Saint John ........................................... 111 NBA TV Canada HD ................................. 221 ICI Télé Ottawa-Gatineau HD ............ ...............Chaîne MPEG-4 378 CTV Saskatoon .......................................... 058 NBC East HD (Detroit) ........................... 728 ICI Télé Quebec.......................................... La liste des chaînes varie selon la région.* 641 CTV Sault Ste. Marie ................................ 063 NBC West HD (Seattle) ............................... 732 ICI Télé Saguenay ..................................... 356 CTV Sudbury .................................................... 116 NFL Network HD....................................... 223 ICI Télé Saskatchewan HD ................... 650 CTV Sydney ................................................. 208 Nickelodeon HD ........................................ 705 ICI Télé Trois-Rivieres ............................. 642 CTV Timmins ............................................... 489 Northern Legislative Assembly ........ 769 La Chaîne Disney ..................................... -
I INFORMING a DISTRACTED AUDIENCE: NEWS NARRATIVES
INFORMING A DISTRACTED AUDIENCE: NEWS NARRATIVES IN BREAKFAST TELEVISION Emma Copeman Submitted in fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (MECO), Honours Department of Media and Communications October, 2007 i Abstract This thesis takes its lead from Baym‟s (2004) suggestion that incorporation of entertainment techniques into television news undermines its authority and credibility. To explore this question, textual analysis was conducted on the news bulletins of Australian breakfast television programs Sunrise and Today with regard to narrative features and the spread of traditional news conventions compared to entertainment techniques. This analysis was followed by a discussion of the dominant meanings produced by the news narratives of Sunrise and Today. The two programs employed similar narrative styles that largely adhered to traditional news conventions, positioning themselves as impartial and authoritative relayers of news. However, narratives of both programs also diverged from traditional news: both used entertainment conventions – with Today often abandoning the traditional Inverted Pyramid news story structure for new structures – and contained briefer stories, with references to the opinions and personal experiences of the item presenters. In some breakfast news items, the short and sometimes personal narrative structure diminished the construction of impartiality. While entertainment techniques represented a potential threat to the overall authority of the news, in this analysis, the threat was mitigated by the dominance of traditional news conventions and authority was retained. In summary, departures from traditional news narrative structure and delivery are evident in Australian breakfast television, and may partly decrease its news authority and impartiality. However, the ability of these programs to retain distracted breakfast audiences may depend on the brief, entertaining and sometimes personal nature of the news items. -
The Ratification by the United Kingdom of the European Charter for Regional Or Minority Languages
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 479 896 FL 027 784 AUTHOR Dunbar, Robert TITLE The Ratification by the United Kingdom of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Mercator Working Papers. SPONS AGENCY European Union, Brussels (Belgium). REPORT NO WP-10 ISSN ISSN-1133-3928 PUB DATE 2003-00-00 NOTE 51p.; Prepared by CIEMEN (Escarre International Centre for Ethnic Minorities and Nations), Barcelona, Spain. AVAILABLE FROM CIEMEN, Rocafort 242, bis, 08020 Barcelona,(Catalunya), Spain. Tel: 34-93-444-38-00; Fax: 34-93-444-38-09; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.ciemen.org/mercator. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Irish; Language Maintenance; *Language Minorities; *Language Usage; *Official Languages; Scots Gaelic; Uncommonly Taught Languages ; Welsh IDENTIFIERS Language Policy; *United Kingdom ABSTRP'iCT This paper describes the impact of the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in the United Kingdom, examining the history and current demographic and social position of the various languages to which the Charter applies. The first section, "Linguistic Minorities in the United Kingdom: Historical Development and Present Demographic Position," describes the history and notes that the languages of migrants are not covered by the Charter. The second section, "Existing Measures of Support for Linguistic Minorities in the United Kingdom," focuses on Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Ulster-Scots, and Cornish. The third section discusses "Application of the Charter to British Regional or Minority Languages." The final section, "Conclusions," suggests that the United Kingdom's ratification of the Charter may create a very useful dynamic and significant step forward for regional or minority language communities. -
Stephen Harrington Thesis
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE BEYOND JOURNALISM: INFOTAINMENT, SATIRE AND AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION STEPHEN HARRINGTON BCI(Media&Comm), BCI(Hons)(MediaSt) Submitted April, 2009 For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Australia 1 2 STATEMENT OF ORIGINAL AUTHORSHIP The work contained in this thesis has not been previously submitted to meet requirements for an award at this or any other higher education institution. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the thesis contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made. _____________________________________________ Stephen Matthew Harrington Date: 3 4 ABSTRACT This thesis examines the changing relationships between television, politics, audiences and the public sphere. Premised on the notion that mediated politics is now understood “in new ways by new voices” (Jones, 2005: 4), and appropriating what McNair (2003) calls a “chaos theory” of journalism sociology, this thesis explores how two different contemporary Australian political television programs (Sunrise and The Chaser’s War on Everything) are viewed, understood, and used by audiences. In analysing these programs from textual, industry and audience perspectives, this thesis argues that journalism has been largely thought about in overly simplistic binary terms which have failed to reflect the reality of audiences’ news consumption patterns. The findings of this thesis suggest that both ‘soft’ infotainment (Sunrise) and ‘frivolous’ satire (The Chaser’s War on Everything) are used by audiences in intricate ways as sources of political information, and thus these TV programs (and those like them) should be seen as legitimate and valuable forms of public knowledge production. -
Measuring the News and Its Impact on Democracy COLLOQUIUM PAPER Duncan J
Measuring the news and its impact on democracy COLLOQUIUM PAPER Duncan J. Wattsa,b,c,1, David M. Rothschildd, and Markus Mobiuse aDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; bThe Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; cOperations, Information, and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; dMicrosoft Research, New York, NY 10012; and eMicrosoft Research, Cambridge, MA 02142 Edited by Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Susan T. Fiske February 21, 2021 (received for review November 8, 2019) Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of pro-Clinton articles.” In turn, they estimated that “if one fake misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has news article were about as persuasive as one TV campaign ad, generated extraordinary concern, in large part because of its the fake news in our database would have changed vote shares by potential effects on public opinion, political polarization, and an amount on the order of hundredths of a percentage point,” ultimately democratic decision making. Recently, however, a roughly two orders of magnitude less than needed to influence handful of papers have argued that both the prevalence and the election outcome. Subsequent studies have found similarly consumption of “fake news” per se is extremely low compared with other types of news and news-relevant content. -
Speaker Profiles Andrew Bulmer President
SPEAKER PROFILES ANDREW BULMER PRESIDENT Andrew Bulmer is President of Active International’s Canadian Division, a global media and asset solutions company. Andrew has spent a 20+ year career leading teams and building business for iconic global brands in North America, Including Molson, Redbull, and OfficeMax (Grand & Toy). A high energy and goal-driven executive, Andrew approaches each new business challenge with a focus on innovation, shaping corporate culture, and measured risk-taking to drive bottom-line results. Since joining Active International in 2011, he’s delivered significant change and innovation to the business. With the media industry in a major state of disruption, his strategy is built on a culture of trust and strong values all tied to performance. This transparency with clients, agencies, and media providers enable them to build and sustain long-term relationships in the media industry. • Employee Satisfaction Scores have jumped from 76% in 2013 to 92% in 2018 • Accelerated bottom line growth in the past 3 years (236%) • Active has Received the Globe & Mail’s Employee Recommended Workplace designation for 2017,2018,2019 Andrew’s perspective on business, leadership, culture and human capital have been published in publications such as the Financial Post, Supply Chain Canada, Purchasing B2B, and MMD Magazines. He has spoken at a number of events including the Deloitte Human Capital and Supply Chain Management conferences. Andrew holds an ICD Director designation and is currently on the Board of Directors for CannTx, an innovative private company in the Canadian cannabis market. Andrew volunteers his time as a member of the Board of Directors for motionball in support of Special Olympics Canada. -
Topographies of Popular Culture
Topographies of Popular Culture Topographies of Popular Culture Edited by Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela Topographies of Popular Culture Edited by Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela This book first published 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2016 by Maarit Piipponen, Markku Salmela and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-9473-7 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-9473-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations .................................................................................... vii Introduction: Imagining Popular Culture Spatially...................................... 1 Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela Chapter One ............................................................................................... 11 The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Middle-earth: Tolkien, Cinema and Literary Cartography Robert T. Tally Jr. Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 35 Anti-Colonial Discourses in Joe Sacco’s Palestine: Making Space for the Losers of History Ranthild Salzer Chapter Three ........................................................................................... -
Cross-Media News Repertories in New Zealand
. Volume 14, Issue 2 November 2017 Shopping in a narrow field: Cross-media news repertories in New Zealand Craig Hight, University of Newcastle, Australia Arezou Zalipour, University of Waikato, New Zealand Abstract: This article reports on the New Zealand case study within a larger project investigating cross-media news repertoires within (and across) national audiences. Six key news media repertoires emerged in this case study; heavy news consumers; hybrid browsers; digital browsers; ambivalent networkers; mainstream multiplatformers; and casual and connected). Despite a range of news media outlets available within New Zealand, particularly across digital platforms, participants consistently noted a relatively narrow social, cultural and political discursive field for news content in the country. Within this context, the news repertoires identified within this case study highlighted the high value placed by news consumers on national daily newspapers (print and online), and the continued salience of television and radio news broadcasting for some audience segments. But findings also offered a snapshot of the ways these are being supplemented or replaced, for some audience segments, by digital news outlets (even as these also generated dissatisfaction from many participants). Keywords: news repertoires, New Zealand, Q-methodology, news consumption, cross- cultural Introduction This article reports on the New Zealand case study within a larger project investigating patterns of news repertoires (Schrøder 2015) within (and across) national audiences, at a time of broadening forms of distribution of news content across a variety of media Page 416 Volume 14, Issue 2 November 2017 platforms. The overall project involved 12 countries and used a Q-sort methodology (Kobbernagel & Schrøder, 2016) to analyze and examine cross-media news consumption among audiences. -
A Supreme Court's Place in the Constitutional Order: Contrasting Recent Experiences in Canada and the United Kingdom
A Supreme Court's Place in the Constitutional Order: Contrasting Recent Experiences in Canada and the United Kingdom Paul Daly" In 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss 5 and 6 that its position at the apex of the judicialsystem was constitutionally entrenched. It did so by interpreting its own history and developing a narrative that emphasized both the critical importance of section 6 in protecting Quebec's distinct interests and legal tradition, and the Court's position as domestic rights protector. The author analyzes this narrativeand argues that the Court'sentrenchment within the Constitution Act, 1982 was not as inevitable 2015 CanLIIDocs 5258 as its reasoning suggests. The article then turns its attention to the newly established United Kingdom Supreme Court and its role pre-and post-adoption of the Human Rights Act 1998. The authorpulls out themes in the Court's recent judgments-which suggest a move awayfrom the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Strasbourg Court and a desire to return to British common law traditions-andan emerging narrativethat resembles that of its Canadiancounterpart. The author then compares the narrativesdeveloped by the two courts to predicthow the United Kingdom Supreme Court might in the future interpret its own role as the guardian of its legal tradition. * Associate Dean and Faculty Secretary, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal. Special thanks to Marie-France Fortin and Matthew Harrington for discussion. I am indebted to the two anonymous reviewers and fear only that my revisions do not do justice to the excellent and thoughtful comments they produced. -
Television and Media Concentration
•• IRIS Special Edited by the European Audiovisual Observatory TelevisionTelevision andand MediaMedia ConcentrationConcentration Regulatory Models on the National and the European Level TELEVISION AND MEDIA CONCENTRATION IRIS Special: Television and Media Concentration Regulatory Models on the National and the European Level European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg 2001 ISBN 92-871-4595-4 Director of the Publication: Wolfgang Closs, Executive Director of the European Audiovisual Observatory E-mail: [email protected] Editor and Coordinator: Dr. Susanne Nikoltchev (LL.M. EUI and U of M) Legal Expert of the European Audiovisual Observatory E-mail: [email protected] Partner Organisations that contributed to IRIS Special: Television and Media Concentration IViR – Institute of European Media Law EMR – Institute of European Media Law Rokin 84, NL-1012 KX Amsterdam Nell-Breuning-Allee 6, D-66115 Saarbrücken Tel.: +31 (0) 20 525 34 06 Tel.: +49 (0) 681 99275 11 Fax: +31 (0) 20 525 30 33 Fax: +49 (0) 681 99275 12 E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] CMC – Communications Media Center MMLPC – Moscow Media Law and Policy Center New York Law School Mokhovaya 9, 103914 Moscow 57 Worth Street, New York, NY 10013 Russian Federation USA Tel./Fax: +7 (0) 503 737 3371 Tel.: +1 212 431 2160 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax: +1 212 966 2053 [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] Proofreaders: Florence Pastori, Géraldine Pilard-Murray, Candelaria van Strien-Reney Translators: Brigitte Auel, France Courrèges, Christopher -
Review of Operations
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS OVERVIEW Turnover from continuing operations was £964.6 million (2001 restated: £1,040.1 million).The decline is primarily due to a reduction of £35.7 million in advertising revenues. Operating costs are under tight control. A stringent review last year identified £45.0 million in annual savings in the second full year, including Carlton’s share of savings in ITV. Delivery is well ahead of target with savings of £54.2 million achieved by end-September. June Brown and Penelope Keith star in Total continuing operating profit before amortisation and Margery & Gladys, a Carlton production for 2003. exceptional items was maintained at £65.3 million (2001: £65.8 million).The total amortisation charge, including joint ventures, was £17.6 million (2001: £17.4 million) and operating exceptional items totalled £4.8 million (2001: charges £52.4 million). Net interest charges were £12.0 million (2001: £35.6 million).The fall is attributable to lower effective interest rates and lower net interest bearing balances. Amounts written off investments were £8.2 million (2001: nil). Profit on continuing operations before taxation was £32.3 million (2001: loss of £39.6 million). ITV has extended its rights to show Bond movies on TV. BROADCASTING Turnover was £799.5 million (2001: £830.1 million) and profits were £67.4 million (2001: £83.3 million). Carlton’s television advertising revenues recovered to show an increase of 2 per cent in the second half of the year, compared to the same period last year. After a difficult first six months, year-on-year growth resumed in May. -
Independent Television Producers in England
Negotiating Dependence: Independent Television Producers in England Karl Rawstrone A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of the West of England, Bristol for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, University of the West of England, Bristol November 2020 77,900 words. Abstract The thesis analyses the independent television production sector focusing on the role of the producer. At its centre are four in-depth case studies which investigate the practices and contexts of the independent television producer in four different production cultures. The sample consists of a small self-owned company, a medium- sized family-owned company, a broadcaster-owned company and an independent- corporate partnership. The thesis contextualises these case studies through a history of four critical conjunctures in which the concept of ‘independence’ was debated and shifted in meaning, allowing the term to be operationalised to different ends. It gives particular attention to the birth of Channel 4 in 1982 and the subsequent rapid growth of an independent ‘sector’. Throughout, the thesis explores the tensions between the political, economic and social aims of independent television production and how these impact on the role of the producer. The thesis employs an empirical methodology to investigate the independent television producer’s role. It uses qualitative data, principally original interviews with both employers and employees in the four companies, to provide a nuanced and detailed analysis of the complexities of the producer’s role. Rather than independence, the thesis uses network analysis to argue that a television producer’s role is characterised by sets of negotiated dependencies, through which professional agency is exercised and professional identity constructed and performed.