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What You Say Is What You Get: Policy Discourse and the Regulation of Canada's First Domestic Communications Satellite System
This article examines the Canadian satellite-policy debates that occurred in 1969 prior to the passage of the Telesat Canada Act. This Act created a new corporation that would own and operate Canada’s first domestic satellite system. Various interest groups vied for control over satellites, using strategic rhetoric to influence how the system would be handled within policy circles. This rhetoric helped to simplify complex issues, limit options, and encourage consensus among policy actors that had very different ideas about the same technology. Key decisions included regulating satellites like microwave networks and labeling the new corporation a carrier’s carrier, natural monopoly, and public utility. In addition, the new corporation was to complement existing telecom networks and would not compete with them for business. The choices made about Canadian satellites thus were bound up with the ways in which this technology was conceived of and discussed, with far-reaching results for Canada’s industrial and communications policy.
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Lehigh University's Fritz Laboratory and the Five-Million-Pound Universal Testing Machine
Cutcliffe features Lehigh University's Fritz Engineering Laboratory and its five-million-pound universal testing machine. The new Fritz lab and its testing equipment propelled Lehigh into a position of leadership in materials testing and structural research, especially in the area of reinforced concrete, then coming into vogue, but also with regard to variious new alloys of steel. Here, Cutcliffe tells that everything about the machine is big and heavy wherein almost nothing is moved by hand, but by the twenty-ton overhead crane or by a smaller chain lift on the machine itself.
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Development of the Audiovisual Industry in Brazil from Importer to Exporter of Television Programming
In Latin America at mid-century, the formal media of communication (press, radio, cinema) satisfied the tastes of the colonizing elites for European and American programming, while the informal types of communication (songs, dances, poetry) remained faithful to indigenous local values. In the 1970s, the extension of broadcasting systems created a demand for popular cultural programming. There was also an increase in the regional exchange of programming between Latin American nations. Gradually, Latin American popular programs have begun to co-exist naturally with imported ones. Using Brazil as a case study, the article details some Brazilian networks’ (Globo, Manchete, Bandeirantes) recent success as international exporters of popular genres (telenovelas, popular music), as Latin America begins to overcome its history of cultural dependency.
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It's a Home Run: World Baseball Classic Goes Global with Intelsat
\"Intelsat's single platform for global delivery, as witnessed through its seamless transmission services of the World Baseball Classic, showcases our strength in delivering HD content, the value of our global video neighborhoods, and the efficiency of our fully integrated satellite and terrestrial network for transmitting global events,\" said Ron Rosenthal, Intelsat's Regional Vice President, Broadcast Solutions.
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