What is the e¤ect of liberalizing a country’s broadcasting system on the level of information of its citizens? To analyze this question, we …rst construct a model of state monopoly broadcasting where the government selects the amount of television news coverage of di¤erent public policy outcomes, and then sets public policy and political rents. Voters vote retrospectively given the news provide...

Social news, unlike video games or TV programs, conveys real-life interactions. Theoretically, social news in which people help or harm each other and violate rules should influence both prosocial and violation behaviors. In two experiments, we demonstrated the spreading effects of social news in a social interaction context emphasizing social conventions and a nonsocial interaction context emp...

The paper reviews the development of a new Slovenian broadcast news speech database. The database consists of audio, video and annotation transcripts of about 34 hours of television daily news program captured from the public TV station RTVSLO. The paper addresses issues concerning transcription and annotation of the collected data, provides information on content analysis and basic statistics ...

In this paper, we present the results that our n-gram based word string language model, combined with speaker and noise adaptation of the acoustic model, improves recognition performance of noisy broadcast news speech. The focus was brought into a remedy against recognition errors of short words. The word string language models based on POS and n-gram frequency reduced deletion errors by 17%, i...

The abundant choices offered by digital media have raised concerns that audience behavior in news consumption might become polarized into people either aggressively seeking out or avoiding the news. Despite growing evidence to that effect, there is no research that precisely measures exposure to news over a period of years. This study assesses TV news consumption by analyzing respondent-level “...

We propose an automatic and intelligent news broadcasting system, which generates full-CG animated news-shows from original text formats from the Internet. The news broadcasts are delivered to users on multiple platforms in the language of their choice. Users are also provided with interactive and intelligent news services. This paper introduces the overall system and provides a feasibility tes...

There is a great need for more TV programs to be subtitled to help hearing impaired and elderly people to watch TV. NHK has researched automatic speech recognition for subtitling live TV programs in real time efficiently. Our speech recognition system learns frequent words and expressions expected in the program beforehand and also learns characteristics of announcers’ voices in order to reduce...

The broadcast media have awesome powertoday, and. as a result, nurses no longer have a choice as to whether or nOI they will use the radio and television media to enhance their professional image. Wcll-dcvclopcd radio and television communication skills can increase a nurse's own success. the success of health care institutions nurses work in. and the success of the nursing profess ion overa ll...

Detecting anchor shots accurately is very important for automatically parsing news video and extracting news items. The paper presents a fast anchor shot detection algorithm, based on background chrominance and skin tone models. The algorithm involves only simple computation, but robust. Moreover it operates in MPEG compression domain, which makes the detection speed very fast. The algorithm wa...