An original task of structuring and labeling large television streams is tackled in this paper. Emphasis is put on simple and efficient methods to detect precise boundaries of programs. These programs are further analysed and labeled with information coming from a standard television program guide using an improved Dynamic Time Warping algorithm (DTW) and a manually labeled reference video data...

In public surveys, the most common complaint about television is the amount of violence depicted on the screen. More than half the programs shown on television are violent, and hundreds of studies have shown that viewing TV violence causes an increase in societal violence. Nevertheless, advertisers continue to sponsor violent programs. For an advertisement to be effective, people should be able...

Television programs seek to attract and hold audiences in order to show them advertisements. Audience members insist on controlling their media experience by changing the channel. As a result, there is great interest in understanding the factors that lead up to and contribute to the decision to change the channel. Many factors—related to audience individual differences, program content, and med...

This study focuses on the hypothesis that television viewers’, depth of psychological involvement in a program is inversely related to their recall and recognition of accompanying advertisements. Ninety subjects watched an involving or a relatively uninvolving television program accompanied by six completely unfamiliar advertisements. They then responded to a series of questionnaires designed t...

Full Text Word Count: ISSN: Accession Number: Database: Full Text Database: Back 12 page(s) will be printed. Record: 1 Switching channels: The effects of television channels on the mental representation of television... Leshner, Glenn Reeves, Byron Nass, Clifford Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; Winter98, Vol. 42 Issue 1, p21, 13p, 2 charts Article *TELEVISION broadcasting of news *T...

25.1 Goals The purpose of this program is to conduct research relevant to the improvement of broadcast television systems. Some of the work is carried out in the Research Laboratory of Electronics and some in other parts of M.I.T., including the Media Laboratory. Audience research is carried out by Prof. W.R. Neuman in the Political Science Department. Reporting is by means of theses and publis...

Effective competition for local monopoly cable systems would seem to offer a natural solution to nagging problems widely attributed to the cable industry, such as high prices and poor service. In regulatory and legislative proceedings leading up to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992,(note 1) however, potential or existing competitors to local cable systems comp...

In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health 2010 (REACH 2010) funds to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to develop a community-based intervention to improve the health of this rural, mountainous community in North Carolina. During the first year of the Cherokee Choices program, team members conducted formative resea...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a national current affairs television program about the association between osteonecrosis of the jaw and bisphosphonates on subsequent prescription use, fractures and deaths. DESIGN AND SETTING National Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme prescription data for 9 months after the television program were used to estimate the impact of reduced bisphosphonate use on ...

This paper analyzes a single television station’s choice of airing tune-ins (preview advertisements). I consider two consecutive programs located along a unit line. Potential viewers know the earlier program but are uncertain about the later one. They may learn its location through a tune-in if they watch the earlier program and the television station chose to air a tune-in, or by sampling it f...