Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Broadcasting policies'

This thesis provides an extended analysis of the television policies of the British Labour Party from 1951 up to the present day. It examines the evolution of Labour's television policy and focuses on the social, political and economic contexts in which policies were developed, the party forums in which policies were discussed and the consequenceso f thesep olicies for British television as a whole. It evaluatest he contrasting contributions to television policy made by the parliamentary leadership, the Labour left, the trade unions, and intellectuals sympathetic to the party. Although the Conservatives have been widely acknowledged to be responsible for the majority of innovations in British television, the thesis refutes the view that this is due to any lack of interest in television policy inside the Labour Party. Drawing on extensive archive material and interviews with key participants, it argues that the Labour Party has intervened in all the main debates concerning British broadcasting and has produced a wide range of proposals for the reform, modemisation and consolidation of television structures in the UK. The thesis examines the party's response to the development of commercial television in the 1950s and to the Pilkington Report in the early 1960s. It assesses the impact on television policy of the Labour governments in the 1960s and highlights the contribution of left-wing demands for television reform in the 1970s. The thesis then considers the government's response to the Annan Report at the end of the 1970s and analyses how the party responded to the Conservative government's reform of television in the following decade. The thesis concludes with an evaluation of the role of television in the emergence of New Labour and provides a critique of the current Labour government's record concerning television developments. The thesis suggests that divisions between rival interests in the Labour Party have undermined the possibility of a unified television policy. The result of these divisions has been that the leadership has marginalised innovative proposals for reform in favour of policies that have safeguarded the existing structures of and power relations in television.

This thesis provides an extended analysis and review of the television policies of the UK Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1997 and examines the causes, coherence and consequences of those policies. In particular, it identifies the potential forces for change in UK television policy from the late seventies: notably, international changes in the economic, social and cultural, and technological environment of the industry; and the political changes in the UK introduced by the new Conservative administrations, generally known as `Thatcherism'. The thesis analyses the specific strengths of the UK television system established by the 1970s, and reviews the criticisms made of that system in the years before 1979. It then assesses the major developments in television policy instituted by the Thatcher and Major administrations: the establishment of Channel 4; their policies on the new technologies of satellite and broadband cable; the impact of the Committee chaired by Alan Peacock on the Financing of the BBC; the reform of ITV; their policies for the renewal of the BBC charter in the 1990s; and their policies on digitalisation and multimedia. Particular attention is paid to the changes that these policies produced in the UK television industry, and the lack of overall coherence of the policies. The thesis argues that the changes were significant but that they were only partial, and that, while pursuing a general goal of marketisation, the policies were incoherent in many of their specifics. This incoherence stemmed partly from resistance by established institutions within the industry, and partly from internal contradictions within the Tories' overall free-market project. The thesis concludes with an examination of the light that Tory television policy during this period sheds on the wider political debate on `Thatcherism' and the international context of UK television policy during the same period.

Will community television one day be lamented in the same way as the Glenn Valley Bridge Club in Pennsylvania, where no one remains 'who can tell us precisely when or why the group broke up' (Putnam, 2000: 15)? Robert Putnam's bestseller Bowling Alone proposed that people 'need to reconnect with one another' and rebuild their communities for the good of society. Although he may not have succeeded in instigating a revival of lawn bowls and bridge, Putnam did spark a debate about the meaning of "community" today and its role in bringing about positive social change. At a time when the communications landscape is set to transform with the introduction of digital broadcasting technology, this thesis looks at the status of community broadcasting and its role within civil society. Taking Australia's community television sector as its starting point, it aims to define the pressures, public philosophies and policy decisions that make community broadcasting what it is. This thesis is structured thematically and geographically. The introductory chapters establish the research question in relation to Australia's community broadcasting sector. As well as tracing the intellectual path of community media studies, it sets out to locate community broadcasting within broader intellectual debates around notions of community, governance and the media. These are brought back to the "on-the-ground" reality throughout the thesis by means of policy analysis, interviews and anecdotal evidence. Chapters Three to Five map out the themes of access, the public interest and development by reference to community broadcasting in different regions. In North America I explore notions of free speech and first-come-first served models of access. In Europe, notions of "quality", public service broadcasting and the difficult relationship that community broadcasting has with public interest values. Through the Third World and the Third Way I examine how community broadcasting is implicated within development discourse and ideas of social change. The final chapter of the thesis moves into the virtual region of the Internet, looking at changing notions of access and the relevance of new communications rationales to the community broadcasting project. At the intersection of the various themes and models discussed throughout the thesis exists a strong rationale for the future of community broadcasting. Although new technologies may be interpreted as the beginning of the end of community broadcasting, I have argued that in fact it is an idea whose time has come.

The objective of this study is to examine historically the policies of theDirectorate of Documentary Programs (DDP) of the Turkish Radio Television Corporation (TRT). Since there is very little research about particular sphere of the public service broadcasting in Turkey it is aimed to contribute to this area of study. In the course of the study, historical conditions, structural factors, broadcasting policies, the conditions of public broadcasting of a country, and the role of individuals and the research methods applied in media studies were taken into consideration. Furthermore, governmental, military, lawful, economic, cultural policies, and policies emerging from the institutional mechanisms, and practices of individuals are illustrated regarding the different time periods. In this study, documentary research, observation, interview, and internet research were used as data gathering methods. Literature analysis, historical analysis and interpretative analysis were employed as methods of analysis. It is mentioned that the role of individuals in the analysis of media studies is not paid much attention, additionally, especially in Turkey, research conducted about media generally ignores the methods of ethnography, field research and interpretative analysis. In analyzing the policies of DDP, it is asserted that except for the structural effects, individuals/actors have also roles in shaping these policies. Furthermore, to examine the media, particularly television policies, it is maintained that there is a need to carry out analysis at the individual level by the help of conducting field research, applying methods of ethnography, and interpretative analysis in Turkey. Finally, it is claimed that to a large extend DDP have been under the effects of public broadcasting notion of Turkey, and there is a need for improving the institutional policies for the DDP to serve the public interest.

Community radio in Thailand is an alternative to public, commercial and state radio with unique characteristics in that listeners can participate at all levels. Community radio varies considerably in its definitions as well as serving several purposes depending on its role in the nation's media system. However, its fundamental philosophy is similar in that radio is used to serve the needs and the interests of the community. Access and participation in small-scale media may not only empower the voiceless, but also maintain local identity and cultures. The reformation of the Thai broadcasting media system by Section 40 of the 1997 constitution and the 2000 Broadcasting Act has increased the chance for some communities to use radio to fulfill their community development needs. The aims of this thesis are: to explore Thai community radio in the broader context of community radio internationally; to examine Thai broadcasting policies on community radio; to explore the development of Thai community radio in relation to the wider liberalisation of the media between 1998 and 2002; and to analyse similarities and differences in station management, programming and audience reception in the four different models of community radio that developed in a range of different provincial Thai community radio stations. A comparative case study using qualitative research methods was used to examine the four case studies, namely at Petchaburi (PRD, 1998) Nakhon Si Thammarat (MCOT, 1998), Roi Et (INN, 2000), and Kanchanaburi (people's radio, 200 I). The contribution of this thesis lies in its exploration of different models of Thai community radio so as to illustrate different interpretations by several stakeholders of community radio discourse, as well as reflecting the constraints on community broadcasting caused by the political economy of the broadcasting system and regulatory inconsistencies. It concludes that community radio has not yet contributed to a more empowered media because of several constraints. Thai community radio did not pursue real participatory communication to empower its listeners. It merely widened the public space for local communities to have more choices for information community-based programs with phone-in formats that provided twoway communication. Thai community radio has not created a wider liberalisation of the media, however, its development facilitated media democratisation through promoting the media reform process, and increasing the awareness of citizens' rights among ordinary people. Station manager and middle-class activists played important roles in putting forth local issues for public discussion. Increasing numbers of local people became alert to their rights to communicate as promised by the 1997 constitution, but unfortunately media reform lacked government support. The Thaksin government had an ambivalent attitude and contradictory policies towards community radio.

In the South African (SA) model of community radio, listeners are expected to be in charge of the management and programming operations of stations. This study tests the SA model against the actual conditions at an existing station. For this purpose, the study focuses on Radio Graaff-Reinet, a community radio station in the Eastern Cape. Emphasis is on examining the extent to which members of the station’s target community are involved in its operations. The study first assesses the nature of this involvement, keeping in mind the principles of, ‘community ownership’ and ‘participatory programming’ on which the SA model of community radio is based. It is argued that the station does provide a valuable ‘public sphere’ for its listeners. The potential of this sphere remains limited, however, due to the impact of ongoing power struggles around the ownership of the station. The lack of proper systems for managing these struggles has contributed to the fact that the station continues to be in a constant state of flux, with a high turnover of staff and regular changes in its policies and strategies. The study argues that, until such systems are put in place, the principles of community ownership will not be fully realizable. Areas in which the struggle over ownership plays itself out can be identified in the relationship between the station’s Board of Directors and its managing staff, between one particular station manager and her staff and between the station and its target community. These struggles often take place in context of a debate about the financial sustainability of the station versus its developmental aims. It is argued that this opposition needs to be questioned since, until the station is financially stable, it will remain vulnerable to interference by powerful individuals and groups in its attempts to establish such developmental aims. The study then goes on to identify key weaknesses in the station’s approach to community ownership and participation. In particular, it is pointed out that various stakeholders in the station have contradictory understandings of what is meant by ‘community’, using the term to include or exclude sections of the Graaff-Reinet society in very different ways. There are also very different understandings at play about the concept of community radio itself. These contradictions have an impact on the station’s ability to implement participatory programming. This situation is exacerbated by the fact that the station does not have a consistent forum in which shared decision-making can take place. Consequently, the station also remains unable to draw effectively on its own volunteer staff and on its community as resources for programming content. Finally, the study explores the broader significance of the weaknesses that exist in the case of Graaff-Reinet, arguing that these are problems that repeat themselves throughout the South African community radio sector. Possible strategies for addressing these problems are suggested, including approaches to monitoring and research, training, organizational development and advocacy.

This study describes and assesses the problems associated with the development of the new broadcasting media in the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg in 1981-1986. It also examines the implications associated with the new broadcasting media in both the audiovisual landscape and the public policies concerning broadcasting. It describes and analyses the audiovisual policy initiated by the Commission of the European Community. This study believes that the impact of the the new broadcasting media on the audiovisual environment has been mostly indirect because of their very slow development. In all three countries, the development of the new broadcasting media has taken on an industrial dimension in terms of assisting the restructuring of their mature economies. The strongest impression to emerge from this project is a profound confusion and uncertainty about the media developments. A situation including an increased number of actors, involved both in conventional and new broadcasting media adversely influenced the latter's development. Even though the United Kingdom and France followed a different policy path, the outcome was the same: small growth. While France followed a state-led policy, the United Kingdom favoured private initiative and the market forces. This project also stresses that although economic pressures and challenges have been a driving force for policy adjustment, technology and markets do not themselves dictate specific and institutional arrangements. Additionally, it describes the state policy on broadcasting in Luxembourg and the anxiety of its politicians to maintain the Grand Duchy's traditional role as the location for international broadcasting. Finally, the European Community's broadcasting policy is discussed in terms of another attempt to harmonise diversified national legislations for the satellite age of television and 1992's Single Market.

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This paper analyzes the major challenges that the new technologies and changes in the post-industrial society are imposing on the Brazilian digital TV and its business model and provides an analysis of how this new configuration of the information society affects the business model of opened television networks in Brazil in the transitional moment from analog to digital. It analyzes the business model before, analog TV, based on the thirty-second commercial and points to difficulties that the old model is adopted in contexts of political, social and economic affairs that takes place in the new Brazilian society. Still, it seeks to demonstrate that other factors contribute to the migration of audience to other platforms for content distribution, refuting the common view that access to broadband internet is the main cause of falling ratings. This study uses an extensive bibliography that goes beyond the specific field of communication and expands the vision of the television industry in Brazil opened by listing weaknesses of the sector and point to possible strategies for the Brazilian television that can adapt to the new structure of communication which is forming in our country.
O presente trabalho analisa os importantes desafios que as novas tecnologias e as transformações na sociedade pós-industrial estão impondo à TV digital brasileira e ao seu modelo de negócios. Tem como principal objetivo realizar uma reflexão sobre a viabilidade financeira das emissoras abertas com a chegada da TV digital. Para tanto, analisa o modelo de negócios anterior, da TV analógica, baseado nos comerciais de trinta segundos e como esta forma poderá ser afetada inviabilizando a estrutura de produção e distribuição de conteúdo pelas emissoras abertas digitais. Ainda, busca evidenciar demais fatores que contribuem para a migração da audiência para outras plataformas de distribuição de conteúdo, refutando o senso comum de que o acesso à internet banda larga é a principal causa da queda dos índices de audiência. Este estudo se utiliza de uma ampla bibliografia que extrapola o campo específico da Comunicação e amplia o olhar sobre a indústria televisiva aberta no Brasil, enumerando fragilidades do setor e apontando possíveis estratégias para que a televisão brasileira possa se adaptar à nova estrutura da comunicação que está se formando em nosso país.

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This work is the result of research undertaken in the Programa de Pós- Graduação Interdisciplinar em Direitos Humanos da Universidade Federal de Goiás, master's level, and has as a research subject to Brazilian legislation on images and sound broadcasting and Public Policy for Human rights in Brazil. The overall objective of the research is to identify what are the regulatory provisions and recommendations of the Brazilian legislation for the operation of television stations that integrate the system of public broadcasting of images and sounds. In this sense the research seeks to answer the following questions: What are the normative legal provisions and present recommendations on the Brazilian legislation on broadcasting and the Public Policies for Human Rights in Brazil to operate the stations that make up the public broadcasting system sounds and projected images in Article 223 of the Federal Constitution of 1988? These regulations and recommendations are focused on the communication security as a fundamental human right and the defense and promotion of human rights in Brazil in the field of broadcasting? To answer such questions, the work will hold: 1) an analysis of the legislation on broadcasting images and sounds that comprise the laws and decrees promulgated on the broadcasting of images and sounds between the years 1931 and 2014; and 2) an analysis of Public Policies for Human Rights in Brazil, which will deal with the National Human Rights Plans 1996, 2002 and 2009, the World Programme of Education for Human Rights of 2005 and the National Plan of Education on Human Rights 2007. Before that, in order to support the above-mentioned analysis, the study will conduct a literature review of authors from different fields of knowledge with the specific objectives of: 1) understand the communication as a fundamental condition for ensuring the dignity and human rights from the concept of law in other authors as Arendt, Lyotard, Chauí, Ruiz Santos, among others; and 2) understand the communication as the foundation of social and an essential human right today and the role of mass media, especially television, from systems thinking thought Niklas Luhmann. Thus, the study aims to contribute to the interdisciplinary field of studies and research on Human Rights to seek to reflect on the important role that public television can and should play in ensuring communication and information as a human right and the promotion and defense of rights humans in Brazil.
O presente trabalho é resultado de pesquisa empreendida no âmbito do Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Direitos Humanos da Universidade Federal de Goiás, nível mestrado, e tem como objeto de pesquisa a legislação brasileira sobre radiodifusão de imagens e sons e as Políticas Públicas para os Direitos Humanos no Brasil. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é o de identificar quais são as disposições normativas e recomendações da legislação brasileira para a atuação das emissoras de televisão que integram o sistema público de radiodifusão de imagens e sons. Nesse sentido a pesquisa procura responder as seguintes questões: quais são as disposições normativas e recomendações legais presentes na legislação brasileira sobre radiodifusão e nas Políticas Públicas para os Direitos Humanos no Brasil para atuação das emissoras que compõem o sistema público de radiodifusão de sons e imagens previsto no Artigo 223 da Constituição Federal de 1988? Essas normativas e recomendações estão voltadas para a garantia da comunicação como um direito humano fundamental e para a defesa e promoção dos direitos humanos no Brasil no campo da radiodifusão? Para responder a tais questões, o trabalho realizará: 1) uma análise da legislação sobre radiodifusão de imagens e sons que compreenderá as leis e decretos promulgados sobre a radiodifusão de imagens e sons entre os anos de 1931 e 2014; e 2) uma análise das Políticas Públicas para os Direitos Humanos no Brasil que abarcará os Planos Nacionais de Direitos Humanos de 1996, 2002 e 2009, o Programa Mundial de Educação para os Direitos Humanos de 2005 e o Plano Nacional de Educação em Direitos Humanos de 2007. Antes, porém, a fim de subsidiar as análises acima citadas, o estudo realizará uma revisão bibliográfica de autores de diferentes campos do conhecimento com os objetivos específicos de: 1) entender a comunicação como condição fundamental para a garantia da dignidade e dos direitos humanos a partir do conceito de direito do outro em autores como: Arendt, Lyotard, Chauí, Ruiz, Santos, entre outros; e 2) entender a comunicação como fundamento do social e um direito humano essencial na atualidade, bem como a função dos meios de comunicação de massa, em especial da televisão, a partir do pensamento sistêmico de pensamento de Niklas Luhmann. Desse modo, o estudo visa contribuir para o campo interdisciplinar dos estudos e pesquisas em Direitos Humanos ao procurar refletir sobre o importante papel que a televisão pública pode e deve desempenhar na garantia da comunicação e informação como um direito humano e na promoção e defesa dos direitos humanos no Brasil.

This thesis examines the process of storytelling on television police drama, The Bill. It explores how factors such as commercial imperatives, working processes and artistic constraints affected representation of the police. The study argues that, in the early days of the show, stories originated with the freelance writers and were based on research and observation of police work. Representation of the police was favourable, partly due to the ideological views of the makers and partly due to the format: stories had to be resolved within a half-hour timeslot, which militated against writers being able to tell stories about issues such as racism, sexism and corruption. However, due to changing market forces in the television industry, the show reinvented itself as a serial in 2001. The exigencies of the new schedule meant less time for research. There was also pressure on the makers to attract a younger audience demographic. Stories were now originated by an in-house team and based on other media sources, setting up “media loops” (Manning 2003) and a recycling of ideas current in media culture about policing and law and order politics. Story-lines became inaccurate and controversial. Findings from focus groups with officers from the Metropolitan Police Service and the Greater Manchester Police also showed that, on occasion, story-lines concerning the handling of witnesses on the show and interview procedures had hampered officers when carrying out investigations. The study concludes that, to echo Silverstone (1985), there is an arbitrariness at the heart of making any television show – that whether the police are depicted favourably or unfavourably is determined as much by the need to attract a certain audience demographic and restrictions in the format as by any ideological intent on the part of the programme-makers.

Diariamente uma batalha de grandes dimensões é travada em cidades espalhadas por todo o Brasil envolvendo, de um lado, milhares de estações de radiodifusão que operam clandestinamente (Rádios Piratas) e, de outro, órgãos responsáveis pela fiscalização e repressão da atividade ilegal. Os equipamentos irregularmente instalados, apreendidos nessas estações, são enviados aos laboratórios da criminalística para que sejam efetuados exames periciais, cumprindo o rito legal. Neste trabalho são abordados os aspectos forenses e periciais relativos ao tema realizando-se ainda uma análise técnica dos transmissores apreendidos pela Polícia Federal na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo quanto às suas características construtivas, potência e frequência permitindo uma avaliação quanto à potencialidade lesiva destes equipamentos, tomando como base informações extraídas de seiscentos e sessenta exames periciais do Departamento de Polícia Federal realizados pelo autor e por outros peritos criminais federais entre os anos de 2008 e 2011.
Daily, a battle of great proportions is engaged in cities throughout the country involving, on one hand, thousands of broadcasting stations illegally installed (Pirate Radios), and on the other, public entities in charge of monitoring and of the prosecution of such illegal activities. Improperly installed equipment are seized in these stations and sent to Criminalistics Laboratories of the Forensic Institutes for examination, thus fulfilling the legal requirements. The present dissertation deals with the forensic examination aspects of such seizures. The technical aspects of the transmission equipment arrested by the Brazilian Federal Police in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region were analyzed as to its various characteristics, such as workmanship involved, potency and frequency in order to evaluate among other things the potential damage caused by such equipment. The study was based on information obtained from six hundred and sixty forensic examination reports issued by the Forensic Examiners of the Brazilian Federal Police Department, including reports written by the author, between the years of 2008 through 2011.

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this assignment is to examine two investigative journalism programmes in South Africa, namely Carte Blanche and SpecialAssignment in order to ascertain whether two South African policing organisations have been subjected to racist stereotyping on these two programmes. Both these programmes are held in high esteem within South African and international media circles. Carte Blanche has won many awards, such as the prestigious eNN African Journalist of the Year Award in 2002. Special Assignment won the equivalent award in 2001. The approaches and styles in revealing the truth by using investigative forms of journalism are however slightly different. Both Carte Blanche and Special Assignment have produced stories from August 2003 to September 2004 that have exposed corruption within the South African policing organisations. Many of the perpetrators within the police force were identified as people of colour. This assignment therefore aims to discover whether racist stereotyping exists in this niche of investigative journalism television programmes. This opens up the possibility for these portrayals to be seen as stereotypical, since the dominant press codes in South Africa stipulates that reference to 'race' in news reporting should only be done where it will contribute significantly to understanding the subject matter or if the reference to the race of the person is particularly applicable. This assignment aims to discover whether racist stereotyping exists in this niche of investigative journalism television programmes. The research method comprised analysing programmes on Carte Blanche and Special Assignment that dealt with the South African policing organisations from August 2003 to September 2004. The original transcripts of the programmes were retrieved from the relevant websites of Carte Blanche and Special Assignment and have also been studied. Sources on media ethics as well as newspaper and magazine articles dealing with the South African policing organisations, crime and corruption were scrutinized in order to provide background information for the study. The analyses of the programmes was complemented by interviews conducted with the investigative journalists at the helm of the two programmes, namely, Ruda Landman from Carte Blanche and Jessica Pitchford from Special Assignment.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om twee ondersoekende joernalistiekprogramme in Suid-Afrika, naamlik Carte Blanche en Special Assignment, te ondersoek ten einde vas te stelof die Suid- Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies in dié twee programme aan rassestereotipering onderhewig is. Albei dié programme word hoog geag in Suid-Afrikaanse en internasionale mediakringe. Carte Blanche het reeds verskeie toekennings gewen, soos die toonaangewende eNN Afrikajoernalis van die Jaar Toekenning in 2002. Special Assignment het hierdie toekenning in 2001 gewen. Die benaderings en styl wat tydens die bekendmaking van die waarheid gevolg word deur die toepassing van ondersoekende vorme van joernalistiek verskil egter effe. Sowel Carte Blanche as Special Assignment het van Augustus 2003 tot September 2004 stories opgelewer wat korrupsie in die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies aan die kaak gestel het. Baie van die skuldiges in die polisiemag is geïdentifiseer as gekleurde mense. Hierdie studie beoog dus om vas te stel of daar rassestereotipering in hierdie afdeling van televisieprogramme met betrekking tot ondersoekende joernalistiek bestaan. Ondersoekende joernalistiek is ongetwyfeld een van die stimulerendste afdelings van die joernalistiek. Dit is 'n uitgesproke vorm van joernalistiek wat die vermoë het om die samelewing te beïnvloed. Ondersoekende joernalistiek maak gewoonlik misdrywe aan die publiek bekend. Die konsekwente uitbeelding van gekleurde mense op 'n negatiewe wyse sou kon lei tot die inboet van etiese waardes en dus tot rassestereotipering. Die navorsingsmetode het behels dat daar van Augustus 2003 tot September 2004 na programme oor die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies op Carte Blanche en Special Assignment gekyk is en dat dit op band opgeneem is. Die oorspronklike transkripsies van die programme is van Carte Blanche en Special Assignment se onderskeie webtuistes verkry en word as bylaes by hierdie studie aangeheg. Bronne oor media-etiek asook koerant- en tydskrifartikels wat oor die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies, misdaad en korrupsie handel, is noukeurig nagegaan. 'n Persoonlike onderhoud is met Ruda Landman van Carte Blanche gevoer, en met Jessica Pitchford van Special Assignment is 'n onderhoud per e-pos gevoer. Landman en Pitchford was albei betrokke by die samestelling van die betrokke

碩士
國立交通大學
科技管理所
89
Due to the progress in digital technologies, digital TV has become an emerging multimedia communications vehicle that will be one of the major broadband accesses to information and entertainment content from home. Because terrestrial TV broadcasting makes use of public resource of radio spectrum, a well conceived government policy is essential to make DTV a driving force to promte the econmic, social cultural and educational development. This research explores the trend of DTV new services and applications, focues on the issues of transmission standards and DTV channel ownership and management. Scholars in media and communication management are surveyed about their opinions, on several aspects in DTV policies and regulations. The findings of this research shall provide as input to the regulators.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005.
Advisor: Dr. John K. Mayo, Florida State University, College of Communication, Dept. of Communication. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 14, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains v, 193 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

碩士
淡江大學
美國研究所
82
From the angle of media''s functions, television is not only a major channel for general public to acquire news and entertainments in their daily life but also an important social resource; therefore whenever a country is formulating its broadcasting regulations, a serious task it will faced is broadcasting regulations, a serious task it will faced is how to regulate appropriately such a vital resource. Although both U.S. and U.K. are democratic countries, sharing long and close historical background and a similar to develop their broadcasting industries, they share no commonground in the concept and means of regulating broadcasting medium (includes television); consequently, the studying center of this thesis is mainly to analyze the differences of broadcasting policies and regulations between this two countries, the causes which bring about these differences have influenced the televisions of this two countries, Through the method of analysing the broadcasting acts and court decisions of both countries, in the summation, this thesis holds that differences of the broadcasting policies and regulations between U.S. and U.K. are actually originated from their political system. For .S., in the premise that "broadcasting as commerce," according to the jurisdiction f Congress; though Congress has the right to initiate law and authorizing FCC to regulate broadcasting industries, however due to the fact that "freedom of speech" and "freedom of press"

MA (Linguistics)
Department of Communication and Applied Languages Studies
The question of the use of languages in radio broadcasting is of particular importance in multilingual communities in Vhembe district of Limpopo province. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) issues broadcasting licenses, and further regulates conditions of implementation of these licenses. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which community radio stations in Vhembe district adhere to ICASA language policies and guidelines stipulated in their licenses. Literature was drawn from government language policy documents (Acts, rules and regulations), broadcasting legislative framework manuals (ICASA), government gazettes, books, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The design for the study is exploratory, whereas the target population comprised of seven (7) community radio stations, fifteen (15) radio programmes, and station managers of community radio stations in the Vhembe district. Purposive sampling was used to select three community radio stations, three programmes per station and station manager of each sampled station. Non-participant observation, documents analysis and tape recorder were used as instruments for data collection, whereby the researcher observed, recorded a total of (nine) 9 talk format programmes. The researcher further analysed documents (broadcasting licenses and programme schedules), from sampled radio stations, to examine stipulated language quotas by ICASA. Lastly, the researcher employed unstructured interviews to collect data from the station managers of community radio stations, in the Vhembe district. The sampled data was analysed through qualitative content analysis and interpreted subsequently. Findings from data analysis determined that community radio stations partially adhere to the policies stipulated in their licenses.
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碩士
國立中山大學
傳播管理研究所
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Due to high frequency and occurrence of chronic kidney diseases in Taiwan, as well as the low public awareness, this research aims to explore the knowledge construction process of Hemodialysis in health broadcasting programs from a health communication point of view. This research intended to answer the following questions: 1) What are health radio program audience types? 2) How does the knowledge on hemodialysis differ among audiences? 3) What is the knowledge construction process among audience in regards to hemodialysis? Data were collected by ten episodes of the Kaohsiung Police Ration Station’s “Medical Network” program for a six month period (January ~ June 2011). This research has utilized content analysis method on the audience type, quantitative description on questions identified by the audience and qualitative methods to summarize and interpret the audience’s knowledge construction process on hemodialysis. The results showed that the main audiences for health broadcast programs are mostly male, age 31 to 50 years, holding profession as drivers, service personnel and potential patients. Among them, the potential patients and their family members most often times ask diagnostic questions, falling into the compelled group in seek of knowledge. Those who have not been diagnosed with the disease often times bring up knowledge confirmation questions, belonging to the proactive knowledge chaser group. These two groups also demonstrated different hemodialysis knowledge construction processes. While the radio program host plays the role of knowledge enhancer to the diagnostic-need group (potential patients), the role transfers to a knowledge transformation model for the knowledge confirmation group (non-patients). Participating physicians follow the treatment process of – examination, diagnosis and treatment to deliver information. The research process shall provide broadcasters or other media professionals a best practice on how the audience absorbs information - to study the distribution and motives of the audience and to deliver the knowledge of health and illnesses.