Walking a Thin Line: The Regulation of EPGs

The digitisation of television broadcasting has facilitated an exponential growth both in the number and the diversity of programs and channels. Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) help consumers find their way in this abundance of offerings.EPGs serve as a classical listing magazine or broadcasting guide with extensive information on television programs; like VCRs, they enable the recording of programs; as search engines, they allow users to look for content on the basis of a keyword; and finally, EPGs list the most favoured programs on the first page, either on the basis of popularity, the personal profile of the consumer or on the basis of agreements with particular broadcasting agencies. This article assesses how various European countries approach the regulation of EPGs and determines whether and how they try to reaffirm guarantees for diversity and pluralism in the digital television environment.

Broadcasts to Cuba : TV Marti surveys are flawed : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives /

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I looked and I listened; informal recollections of radio and TV.

Mode of access: Internet.

Investigation of regulatory commissions and agencies : interim report of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight.

"February 9, 1960."

So you're going on TV.

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First report on prospects for additional networks /

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A proposal for five-branch merger by the Joint study group on five-branch merger, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California [and] New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

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Challenges to values-based military intervention /

"First published February 1995"--T.p. verso.

Mobile message services and communications policy

Something of a design after-thought, mobile phone SMS (Short-Message Services) have been enthusiastically adopted by consumers worldwide, who have created a new text culture. SMS is now being deployed to provide a range of services and transactions, as well as playing a critical role in offering an interactive path for television broadcasting. In this paper we offer a case study of a lucrative, new industry developing internationally at the intersection of telecommunications, broadcasting, and information services—namely, premium rate SMS/MMS. To explore the issues at stake we focus on an Australian case study of policy responses to the development of premium rate mobile messaging services in the 2002-2005 period. In the first part, we give a brief history of premium rate telecommunications. Secondly, we characterise premium rate mobile message services and examine their emergence. Thirdly, we discuss the responses of Australian policy-makers and industry to these services. Fourthly, we place the Australian experience in international context, and indicate common issues. Finally, we draw some conclusions from the peregrinations of mobile message services for regulators grappling with communications policy frameworks.

Umpire Bernice Gera holds press conference at ABC-TV NY

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TV camerawoman at Anti-Castro demonstration

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Video technicians

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TV studio trainee for Channel 5

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Camera woman and sound technician at NOW conference in Houston

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