The article presents (1) the technical characteristics of Mobile TV [Mobile TV] and how it differs from IPTV Internet [Internet TV], (2) network, spectrum equipment issues that will influence regulatory framework, (3) opportunities created for when migrating to digital TV, (4) a case study in Mexico concerning framework telecommunications broadcasting services, market players, availability, mig...

We analyse the rivalry between two TV-channels competing both on the market for audience and the market for advertising. We identify the nature of TV-programs emerging from this competition, and the quantity of advertising that TV-viewers will have to attend at equilibrium. Finally, we examine how a government’s regulation of this quantity will affect programs’ selection by the channels. CORE, ...

This contribution presents some recent developments in interactive digital television and discusses the trends and challenges of bringing TV services to mobile devices. Two areas will be addressed: portable use of mobile devices to complement the TV set in the home and mobile TV services while on the move using the emerging mobile broadcasting technology.

background: media advertisements especially radio and tv are one of the most important and effective ways for health promotion and consumption of healthy productions worldwide. ministry of health and some other ministries in iran agreed to control and restrict the advertising of unhealthy products and services. therefore, adequate supervision and monitoring should be done in this field.  a cont...

Earlier this year we were asked to offer a perspective from AIED on the development of interactive educational television (ie-TV). This theme paper discusses our response to the question: what can the field of AIED offer to developers of education for the wired and wireless future with particular respect to TV? We note the changes that have taken place over the past 50 years in the nature and p...

Earlier this year we were asked to offer an AIED perspective to the development of interactive educational television (ie-TV). This theme paper discusses our response to the question: what can the field of AIED offer to developers of education for the wired and wireless future with particular respect to TV? We note the changes that have taken place over the past 50 years in the nature and proli...

Broadcast Multimedia, Arthur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, and Seppo Kalli, Springer, 2004, $80, 254 pp., ISBN 0-38720843-7. In the 1930s, television gradually found its way into consumers’ homes. With the introduction of color TV in the 1960s, it became a widespread and highly accepted consumer product. It has taken another 40 years to bring a new innovation into the world of TV: the digitalizatio...

In 1959, the regional government of Western Nigeria established the 1st television station in Nigeria and in Africa. Even though it promoted the station as a means to educate the people about development and the world, it initially served as a means for an opposition leader to address the people of Western Nigeria. The regional governments of Eastern and Northern Nigeria and the federal gover...