List of American television networks - List of American television networks American analog over-the-air television channels are numbered 2 through 69, and occupy the following frequencies: 54-88 MHz (Channels 2-6) 174-216 MHz (Channels 7-13) 470-806 MHz (Channels 14-69) See list of local television stations in North and Central America. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 American commercial over-the-air television networks 2 American non-commercial television networks 3 Extinct American television networks American commercial over-the-air television networks American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (formerly NBC Blue) National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (formerly NBC Red) Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Fox Network (Fox) Warner Brothers Network (WB) United Paramount Network (UPN) PAX Network (PAX) National networks try, when possible, to own the same "channel space" in all cities where they broadcast. CBS lays claim to "channel 2", NBC has "channel.
List of British TV shows remade for the American market - List of British TV shows remade for the American market Many successful British TV shows (particularly sitcomss) have been remade for the American market. The amount of reworking varies with some shows (such as All in the Family) keeping the basic situation and then adding many original features and others taking complete scripts (such as Amanda's) taking entire scripts verbatim. There are relatively few examples of American shows remade for the British market (the majority of these being game shows), as the British television audience are very accepting of the American originals. Indeed the US remakes are often imported back into the UK. By contrast original British shows are rarely seen on the major networks and are usually broadcast only on the Public Broadcasting Service and.
Journalist - articles or reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film and the Internet. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Origin and scope of the term 2 19th century journalists 3 20th century print journalists 4 20th century broadcast journalists 5 Internet journalists 6 Contemporary journalists 7 See also Origin and scope of the term In the early 19th century, the term journalist once meant simply someone who wrote for journals, such as Charles Dickens in his early career, but has come to mean a writer for newsapapers and magazines as well. The term journalist is interchangeable with reporter. Many journalists write for print periodicals, but some also write books or publish on the Internet. Broadcast journalists appear on radio or television..
1949 in television - 1949 in television See also: 1948 in television, other events of 1949, 1950 in television and the list of 'years in television'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Popular Television Shows 3 Births 4 Deaths Events January 11 - A 2 hour special on all networks celebrates the linking of the eastern and midwestern networks via coaxial cable January 22 - The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood, California. January 31 - The first Emmy Awards are presented and broadcasted on television from Los Angeles May - The first telethon, benefitting the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, is hosted by Milton Berle and lasts for 24 hours August 25 - RCA announces the development of a compatible color TV.
American Broadcasting Company - American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company or ABC is a television and radio network in the United States, today owned by The Walt Disney Company. The ABC Logo was designed by Paul Rand in 1962. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Founding of American Broadcasting Corporation 2 Merger of ABC with United Paramount Theatres 3 Proposed Merger of American Broadcasting Corporation with ITT 4 ABC Television Programming and Innovation 5 Related articles 6 References Founding of American Broadcasting Corporation In 1940 the Federal Communications Commission issued the "Report on Chain Broadcasting." The report proposed "divorcement," or the selling of either NBC Red or NBC Blue by RCA. NBC Red was the dominant NBC radio network. The report said RCA used NBC Blue to suppress competition against.
Television network - Television network A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in the United States was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks, but with the advent of cable television the cost of creating a television network has been reduced and there have been a huge increase in the number of networks with most of the newer networks catering to a small group. Many early television networks evolved from earlier radio networks. Broadcast television networks: Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Australia 2 Canada 3 China, Peoples Republic of 4 China, Republic of 5 Finland 6 India 7 Ireland 8 Japan 9 Sweden 10 Taiwan 11 United Kingdom 12 United.
Television commercial - Television commercial From the earliest days of the medium, television has been used as a vehicle for advertising. Since their inception in the late 1940s, television commercials have become far and away the most effective, most pervasive, and most popular method of selling products of all sorts. The radio advertising industry was well-established when television made its debut in the 1940s, and television was intentionally developed as a commercial medium, based upon radio's successful format, by the first television broadcasting networks (especially RCA, the founder and owner of the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks). In the earliest days of television, it was often difficult to perceive the boundary between the actual television programs and the commercials. Many of the earliest television shows were sponsored by.
Children's television series - Children's television series Children's television shows are television programs designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, and often with the purpose of educating a young audience about basic life skills or ideals. The programs are usually divided by age groups, including pre-school, kindergarten through second grade, third grade through age ten, and ages ten through twelve. The term "children's television" is also often associated with cartoon television shows, though cartoon television was intended for adults until well into the late 1970s when "Saturday morning cartoons" became a U.S. television tradition. Children's television is nearly as old as television itself, with early American examples including live broadcast shows such as Howdy Doody, Bozo The Clown'\' and The Mickey Mouse Club. These.
List of Canadians - List of Canadians This is a list of well-known Canadians. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Artists 2 Astronauts 3 Authors 4 Business Personalities 5 Cartoonists 6 Criminals 6.1 Alleged criminals 6.2 Wrongfully convicted 7 Educators 8 Explorers 9 Humanitarians 10 Inventors 11 Military Figures 12 Motion Pictures, Radio, & Television 13 Musicians 14 Political Leaders 15 Religious personalities 16 Scholars 17 Scientists 18 Sports Personalities 19 Other Personalities Artists The Group of Seven - male painters The Beaver Hall Group - female painters Robert Bateman (1930-), painter Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter Emily Carr (1871-1945), painter Jack Chambers Susan M. Cohen Watercolour artist, Thornhill, Ontario Greg Curnoe (1936-1992) Charles Daudelin (1920-2001), sculptor Marcelle Ferron (1924-2001), glazier Pierre Granche (1948-1997), sculptor Jack Harman, (1927-2001), sculptor Jean-Paul Mousseau, (1927-1991),.
List of reference tables - List of reference tables You usually find a collection of reference tables in the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work). As these tables appear, please add them to this index. What we have in mind is listings or tabular information for quick reference, not narrative articles. Alternate versions: For an alphabetical listing: Special:Allpages/List of (cont. 1 2 3 4 5 6) By type: List of glossaries (glossaries are also included in this list) Lists of articles by category (also included here) List of themed timelines (also included in this list) List of trivia lists (also included here) List of countries (general lists by country not included here) Lists of people (not included here) Table of.
List of electronics topics - List of electronics topics This is a list of communications, computers, electronic circuits, fiberoptics, microelectronics, medical electronics, reliablity, and semiconductors. Please remove any redirects (and do not add any redirects). A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # 16VSB 2VSB 32VSB 4000 series 4VSB 555 741 7400 series 8VSB A Absolute gain Access control Acceptance pattern Access time Acoustic coupler Acquisition ADSL Adaptive communications Adder Adjacent-channel interference Alarm sensor Aliasing Alternate party Alternating current AM radio Amateur radio Ambient noise level American Radio Relay League (ARRL) AMI Ammeter Ampere Amplitude distortion Amplitude modulation Amplifier Analog Analog computer Analog decoding Analogue switch Analog to digital converter Angular misalignment.
John F. Kennedy assassination - same assassination attempt. Later that afternoon, U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States aboard Air Force One. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Assassination 1.1 A nation mourns 2 List of Witnesses to the Assassination 3 Investigations into the assassination 4 Security failures 5 The Zapruder Film 6 Conspiracy Theories 7 KGB disinformation 8 BBC 'Correspondent' programme in 2003 9 External Links The Assassination At 11:40 AM (U.S. Central standard time), President Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, and the rest of the presidential entourage arrived at Love Field, then Dallas' only airport, in Air Force One. The original itinerary was for the president to proceed in a motorcade from Love Field through downtown Dallas, to the Trade Mart. The president was expected.
U.S. presidential election, 2000 - Bill Clinton's former Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Numerous local court rulings went both ways, some ordering recounts because the vote was so close and others declaring that a selective manual recount in a few heavily-Democratic counties would be unfair. Eventually, the Gore campaign appealed to the Florida Supreme Court whose liberal judges ordered that the recounting process proceed. The Bush campaign subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States which took up the case Bush v. Gore on December 1. On December 4, the court nullified the decision of the Florida Supreme Court saying that the court's decision to bypass state election laws, which stated that results had to be certified by a certain date, was dubious at best saying that there was "considerable uncertainty" as to the.
December 2003 - bomb sent two days ago to the Bologna home of Romano Prodi, the head of the European Commission. [1] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces a ban on the sale of dietary supplement ephedra, citing "an unreasonable risk of illness or injury" from the use of the drug. [1] U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the CIA leak scandal, in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was leaked by Washington insiders. Democratic political leaders had been calling for Ashcroft's recusal. [1] The man who was convicted of breaking into mainland China cable television networks and broadcasting footage of the banned Falun Gong reportedly dies in prison. Falun Gong and the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy claim he was.
Afghanistan timeline January 1-16, 2002 - January 3, 2002 15 January 2, 2002 16 January 1, 2002 January 16, 2002 A U.S congressional delegation met with Afghan president Hamid Karzai, promising American involvement in the country would not end with the winding down of the conflict. The delegation included senators Bob Smith, Byron Dorgan, Mark Dayton, Richard Durbin, and representative Ellen Tauscher. Their pledge was contrasted by representative Tom Lantos, a senior member of the House International Relations Committee, who said to an audience in Tokyo that the United States should not take the lead in rebuilding Afghanistan. John Walker Lindh was charged with conspiracy to kill U.S nationals overseas and with supporting al-Qaeda. The U.N. Security Council adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, Taliban and al-Qaida members, requiring all nations to impose arms embargoes and freeze.
Afghanistan timeline November 2002 - base near Khost, about 100 miles south of Kabul, Afghanistan. November 28, 2002 To date, U.N-monitored disarmament commissions collected more than 6,000 small arms and 30 tanks in the northeast of Afghanistan since the start of the disarmament plan on November 10. The commissions covered the provinces of Baghlan, Badakhshan, Kunduz and Takhar. November 27, 2002 A New Zealand telecoms company Argent Networks won a $4.5 million contract to develop cellular and internet services in Afghanistan. Argent will develop a billing system for the GSM mobile network set up in June by the Afghan Wireless Communications Company, a joint venture between Telephone Systems International and the Afghan Ministry of Communications. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to extend the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for a year beyond December.
ANT1 - better known as ANT1 was the most popular television channel in Greece. The pronunciation is not Antoine or Ant-1, ANT1 is pronounced Antenna because is not pronounced but from Greek éna meaning one in English.The first broadcast began in the late-1980s. Programs like Wheel of Fortune (Greek Version), and Oi Men Kai Oi Den were among being the top 10 shows in the nation or state of Greece. Cartoons are offered in the morning. Most of them are shown in the Greek language. Today they are offered only on Weekend mornings. Studio me Thea replaced Saturday morning (8 to 11am Balkans-Nile Valley Time, a time zone not to confuse with other names with the same GMT+2 time zone like Balkans, Finland, Mozambique Time zones, etc.) cartoons for Fall, Winter and Spring..
Atlanta, Georgia - of Tears by the Federal government, white settlement in this area increased rapidly. Atlanta was first planned in 1836 as a terminus on the Western & Atlantic Railroad, hence the original name, Terminus. The railroad terminus for lines connecting from Birmingham, Chattanooga, Macon, Athens, etc. was originally intended to be in Decatur, but the citizens of Decatur did not want a railroad terminal. So an arbitrary spot was picked, around which the village of Terminus grew up in expectation of railroad traffic. The name "Atlanta" dates officially from 1847, by which time several of the railroad lines were already in operation. In 1864, the city became the target of a major Union invasion in the American Civil War and scene of the Battle of Atlanta, later immortalized in the novel and.
August 2003 - Kursk died when it sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000. Environmental organizations say that the submarine could be dangerous for fishes, because radioactive material could leak to the sea from its two nuclear reactors. [1] August 29, 2003 Najaf, Iraq: A car bomb explodes during prayers outside the holiest shrine for Shiites, Imam Ali Mosque (Tomb of Ali), just as main weekly prayers are ending. More than 125 people are killed, including the influential cleric Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Dozens are injured. [1] class="external">[1 [1] [1] [1] Israel is alleged to have contingency plans to bomb an Iranian nuclear power plant if it begins producing weapons grade material. [1] Tensions flare again over.
The Walt Disney Company - Zone restaurants. It owns Hyperion Books, Disney Publishing Worldwide and the Walt Disney Cruise Line. Disney's music division includes Walt Disney Records, Mammoth Records, Lyric Street Records, and Hollywood Records. TWDC also owns the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network and television and radio stations, Radio Disney, the Disney Channel and ESPN's family of cable television networks. It is also part owner of E! Entertainment Networks, Lifetime Television, A&E, and The History Channel. The company also owns the Anaheim Mighty Ducks hockey team and owned the Anaheim Angels baseball team, which was later sold to businessman Arturo Moreno. It also handles licensing of Disney products and sales through the Disney Store, Disney Toys, Disney Publishing, and Disney Interactive. Some librarians have objected to TWDC's lobbying of the world's major legislative bodies into.
