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Channel 4: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy

Channel 4: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy

Dorothy Hobson

Explores the Channel 4's foundation period, under its first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. This work assesses the legacy of the channel and discusses whether it has changed the nature of British television.
Independent Television in Britain: Volume 6 New Developments ...

Independent Television in Britain: Volume 6 New Developments ...

P. Bonner

after some discussion at our meeting last Wednesday, the Board of Channel Four will be prepared to agree to your recommendation that Stewart Purvis, who is your choice, be appointed Editor of Channel Four news subject to three strict ...
Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows

Martin Fradley

Memory, Haunting and Return through Television Seriality David Rolinson and Faye Woods This chapter will discuss the Channel Four serials This is England ' 86 and This is England '88 in their specific television contexts. Although these ...
Television: Technology and Cultural Form

Television: Technology and Cultural Form

Raymond Williams

First published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules, Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its.
Eat to Beat Indigestion: The Antacid Action Plan

Eat to Beat Indigestion: The Antacid Action Plan

Amanda Ursell

She was nutritional consultant and presenter for the Channel 4 television series, Food File. She is the author of 'The Antioxidant Recipe Book.'
Channel Excellence

Channel Excellence

Axel Schultze

Channel Excellence reveals insights and provides guidance to leverage global partner networks.
Cross Channel

Cross Channel

Julian Barnes

Clever, wise, reflective and imaginative, these stories are permeated with understanding of what it has meant for generations from these islands to cross the Channel.
This is Civilisation

This is Civilisation

Matthew Collings

'This is Civilisation' is a greatly elaborated version of the Channel 4 television series of the same name, written and presented by Matthew Collings. Many of the images in the book are stills from the programme.
Neuromancer

Neuromancer

William Gibson

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer.
Attacks on the Press in 2007: A Worldwide Survey by the ...

Attacks on the Press in 2007: A Worldwide Survey by the ...

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Jahangir Alam Akash, a reporter in the northwestern city of Rajshahi for the television news channel CSB, told CPJ in May that he received death threats from a major with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for his reporting on a raid in which the ...
Children talking television: the making of television literacy

Children talking television: the making of television literacy

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Considers the role of social class, gender and ethnic background in determining children's understanding and use of television. The book looks at the development of children's conceptions of television genres and narrative forms.
Entertainment World

Entertainment World

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Al-Jazeera Television: Intifada on the Air

Al-Jazeera Television: Intifada on the Air

Mahmoud Raouf Al-Sadi

The Doha-based, pan-Arab "al-Jazeera Satellite Channel" came to life on November 1, 1996 by a Qatari Emiri decree, and began a 24-hour operation on February 1, 1998.
Transforming Your Go-to-market Strategy: The Three ...

Transforming Your Go-to-market Strategy: The Three ...

V. Kasturi Rangan

This book outlines three disciplines that companies must master to navigate the complex distribution environment successfully: map the industry channel, build and edit one's own channel continuously to best serve customers, and align and ...
Channel Surfing with God

Channel Surfing with God

Gary Fisher

This new book connects their stories into a unified tapestry that reveals miracles even in the midst of unspeakable tragedies. Original. God is watching. He channel surfs our lives and sometimes intervenes.
Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television ...

Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television ...

Su Holmes

The book is iconclastic, percipient and grounded in archival research, and will be of use to anyone studying television history.
Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow

Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow

Hubert Chanson

This new edition includes substantial new material on hydraulic modelling, in particular addressing unsteady open channel flows. There are also many new exercises and projects, including a major new revision assignment.
Exposé of Polygamy: A Lady's Life Among the Mormons

Exposé of Polygamy: A Lady's Life Among the Mormons

Fanny Stenhouse

1 (London: Chato and Windus, Piccadilly, 1876), 208. 7. She also said Stenhouse was “born a Frenchwoman,” which is not entirely inaccurate, since many Channel Islanders were bilingual and since political control of the Channel Islands has ...
Sid and Sal's Famous Channel Marker Diner

Sid and Sal's Famous Channel Marker Diner

Priscilla Cummings

When condo builders destroy their home, two ospreys move to a channel marker in Chesapeake Bay, where they open a diner
Toward Cross-Channel Management: A Comprehensive Guide for ...

Toward Cross-Channel Management: A Comprehensive Guide for ...

Thomas Rudolph

With the help of 71 interviews with top and middle managers in retailing, this book derives a variety of recommendations in the field of cross-channel management for retailers and manufacturers.
Serialization in Popular Culture

Serialization in Popular Culture

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Dan Hassler-Forest Television is no longer what it was. Changes in American television production and distribution practices have transformed not only the way we watch television, but have also challenged the medium«s very definition.
BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension: ...

BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension: ...

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As shown on sheet 40, in order to maintain the creek invert elevan'on and allow adequate separation between the top of the BART subway box and the channel bottom, it is necessary to relocate the channel crossing to the north. After exiting ...
Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across ...

Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across ...

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Looking to global television formats as vital for various cultural meanings, relationships, and structures, this collection shows how formats can further our understanding of television and the culture of globalization at large.
International Television Almanac

International Television Almanac

Richard Gertner

Robert Wehrman. chief eng. Operation: 1957. WPGH-TV (Channel 53) U.S. Communications of Pittsburgh Inc.. 750 Ivorv Ave.. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15214: (412) 931-6833. Martin S. Polling, v. p. & gen. mgr.; John R. Lease, sta. mgr.; Jeff Davidson, ...
Rusty Bugles

Rusty Bugles

Sumner Locke Elliott

Rehearsal script, ABN Channel 2, Drama and Features Department, 1964-1965, of Rusty Bugles, a play by Sumner Locke Elliott, adapted by John Warwick for television.
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One

Paige McKenzie

A New York Times bestsellerThe Haunting of Sunshine Girl,in active development for television by The Weinstein Company, a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an "adorkable" teenager living in a haunted ...
The New Television Handbook

The New Television Handbook

Patricia Holland

The New Television Handbook?provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes.
Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets

Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets

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List ofIllustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Channel vision 1 Andrew Radford and Victoria Reid 1 Sea change: English responses to French poetry between Decadence and Modernism Jennifer Higgins 2 Entente ...
Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11

Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11

Kevin Tuerff

Channel of Peace tells the story of how Gander’s compassion, then and now, has ignited a spirit of kindness that renewed Kevin’s spirituality and has inspired an annual and growing “giving back” day.

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