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Global Television: How to Create Effective Television for the 1990's [Hardcover]

Tony Verna (Author)

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Publication Date: December 13, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0240801342 | ISBN-13: 978-0240801346

Evolving technologies such as fiber optics, high definition television, digital transmission, and computerization are expanding the possibilities, heightening audience expectations, and driving producers toward creating more complex and lavish yet more cost-effective international productions. This book examines and explains how technology and the demands of the marketplace are driving television into becoming truly global.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Focal Press (December 13, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240801342
ISBN-13: 978-0240801346
Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,257,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Globalcasting can be described as television transmission from multiple points on earth to multiple points on earth, usually live or live with tape inserts, employing all of the technical facilities that allow a maximum number of viewers/listeners around the world to share the television experience. Read the first page

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inject locations, percent buy rate, satellite schematic, syndicated feed, live injects, super quad, prayer for world peace, standby copy, transponder time, remote producer, transponder space, downlink station, audio box, musical medley, domestic feed, uplink station, master control room, medal count, tape room, dish owners, world feed, audio lines, uplink signal, monitor walls, global television

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New York, Live Aid, Goodwill Games, Sport Aid, Larry King, Christmas Around the World, Persian Gulf War, Time Warner, Our Common Future, United Nations, John Denver, Mary Major, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Nick Charles, Rolland Smith, Debbie Gibson, United States, Bob Geldof, Eastern Europe, Hannah Storm, John Naber, Los Angeles, Snowman Music, Super Bowl

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Bob Geldof (Profile Series) by Chris May on page 15, and page 114
Our Father by Marilyn French on page 32
Closing Ceremonies by Harold king on page 129
Guide to College Courses in Film and Television by American Film Institute on page 260
Frosty the Snowman (a Golden Super Shape Book) by Carol North on page 80

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