Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
137,078
result(s) for
"Television stations"
Sort by:
What happens at a TV station?
Follows what happens at a televsion station when a young girl performs on a TV talent show.
Book
New Set at Channel 11, But Many Familiar Faces
Schack has transformed the environment at the CBS affiliate, with which Arkansas Business has a news-sharing agreement. The makeover of 720 Izard St., the TV station's only home since it went on the air in November 1955, runs the gamut from new breakroom amenities to a vast 2,000-SF newsroom now free of cubicles. Though the set is new, it's a throwback in spirit to the beginnings of KTHV, which was born with state-of-the-art equipment in the infancy of commercial TV in Arkansas.
Journal Article
Gunmen storm Ecuador TV station mid-broadcast
A live broadcast of Ecuadorian television station TC was taken over by armed men on Jan. 9. The incident occurred a day after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency after the country’s most notorious gang leader escaped from a prison.
Streaming Video
Súil Eile
Based on new research and on interviews with those who have the inside story about the founding and development of TG4, Suil Eile promises a lively, no-nonsense account of Irish language TV in the last twenty years.Sil Eile provides an insight into the channel's unique story from the early, lively campaign for 'Teilifs na Gaeilge' right up to to the present day.Alongside the history of the station the author presents a clear-eyed critical appraisal of the station's achievements since its inception.
eBook
Changing Channels
In the years before the civil rights era, American broadcasting reflected the interests of the white mainstream, especially in the South. Today, the face of local television throughout the nation mirrors the diversity of the local populations.
The impetus for change began in 1964, when the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ and two black Mississippians, Aaron Henry and Reverend R. L. T. Smith, challenged the broadcasting license of WLBT, an NBC affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi. The lawsuit was the catalyst that would bring social reform to American broadcasting.
This station in a city whose population was 40 percent black was charged with failure to give fair coverage to civil rights and to integration issues that were dominating the news. Among offenses cited by the black population were the cancellation of a network interview with the civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall and editorializing against the integration of the University of Mississippi.
However, muscle, money, and a powerhouse Washington, D.C., law firm were on the side of the station. Despite the charges, the Federal Communications Commission twice renewed the station's license. Twice the challengers won appeals to the federal courts. Warren Burger, then a federal appeals court judge, wrote decisions on both challenges. The first ordered the FCC to allow public participation in its proceedings. The second, an unprecedented move, took the license from WLBT.
This well-told, deeply researched history of the case covers the legal battles over their more than fifteen years and reports the ultimate victory for civil rights. Aaron Henry, a black civil rights leader and one of the plaintiffs, became the station's chairman of the board. WLBT's new manager, William Dilday, was the first black person in the South to hold such a position.
Burger's decision on this Mississippi case had widescale repercussions, for it allowed community groups in other regions to challenge their stations and to negotiate for improved services and for the employment of minorities.
Kay Mills is the author ofA Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page,This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer,From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know about Women's History in America, andSomething Better for My Children: The History and People of Head Start. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
eBook
Local News and National Politics
The level of journalistic resources dedicated to coverage of local politics is in a long-term decline in the US news media, with readership shifting to national outlets. We investigate whether this trend is demand- or supply-driven, exploiting a recent wave of local television station acquisitions by a conglomerate owner. Using extensive data on local news programming and viewership, we find that the ownership change led to (1) substantial increases in coverage of national politics at the expense of local politics, (2) a significant rightward shift in the ideological slant of coverage, and (3) a small decrease in viewership, all relative to the changes at other news programs airing in the same media markets. These results suggest a substantial supply-side role in the trends toward nationalization and polarization of politics news, with negative implications for accountability of local elected officials and mass polarization.
Journal Article
Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections
Has the decline in traditional sources of local news contributed to the nationalization of U.S. elections? I hypothesize that local news coverage mitigates nationalization by providing voters with information that allows them to assess down-ballot candidates separately from their national, partisan assessment. The geography of media markets places some voters in a neighboring state’s market and others in in-state markets. I demonstrate that residents of in-state markets have access to vastly more local television news coverage of their governor and U.S. senators, and this increased coverage translates into greater knowledge of these officeholders. Further, access to in-state television news substantially increases split-ticket voting in gubernatorial and senatorial races. Supplementary analyses provide strong evidence that the estimated effects are not the result of unobserved differences between residents of in-state and out-of-state media markets. These results imply that local news coverage attenuates the nationalization of elections even in the present polarized context.
Journal Article