Elderly people often find that speech in contemporary broadcasts is too fast for comfortable listening. In response to this problem, we have developed new radio and television receivers that enable users to reduce the speed of speech delivery while maintaining voice pitch and quality without overrunning the program time slot. Listening experiments conducted with elderly people have confirmed th...

Audio visual communication is a type of collective expression. Due to inform the masses, give direction to opinions, and establish public opinion, audio visual communication must be subjected to special restrictions. This has been stipulated in both the Constitution and the European Human Rights Agreement. This paper aims to review freedom of expression and its restriction in audio visual media...

This study assessed the relationship between recent exposure to family planning (FP) messages in the media (newspaper, radio, television, and mobile phones) and use of modern contraceptive methods among women aged 15-24 years living in six cities in Nigeria. Logistic regression models were used to predict recent media exposure to FP messages and its association with sexual experience and modern...

In the last years, FTTH (Fiber-to-the-home) networks became an excellent solution to deliver broadband internet access and TV services. A furthermore integration of IRUWB (Impulse-radio ultra-wideband) signals into GPON (Gigabit-Passive-Optical-Network) technology is analyzed, with opportunity to allow wireless distribution of high definition video over a future personal area network. It is con...

abstractthis study examined information flow on minisett technology among yam farmers in delta state, nigeria. a sample size of 180 respondents was involved in the study. data were obtained from respondents of the study through the use of a validated interview schedule. percentage, frequency count and mean scores were used to summarize data, while line diagrams were used to develop maps of info...

Regulation of radio began in 1910 when Congress passed modest legislation over the infant wireless communication industry. Following the development of broadcasting and a surge of growth during the 1920s, the Radio Act of 1927 was passed. The act created an independent commission to determine regulatory policy for broadcasting in the United States. The venerable Communications Act of 1934 expan...

This paper uses an unusually rich sample of liquor brands in the U.S. over the period 1994 to 2004 to test substitutability of advertising media. The liquor industry in the U.S. has experienced a substantial increase in case sales and advertising expenditures since the mid-1990s, raising numerous public policy concerns. Moreover, the mix of advertising media used by liquor brands also changed s...

BACKGROUND Public radio and television announcements have a long tradition in public health education. With the global rise of computer and mobile device ownership, short message service (SMS) and email-based health services (mHealth) are promising new tools for health promotion. OBJECTIVE Our objectives were to examine 1) self-reported exposure to programs related to noncommunicable diseases...

This article analyses Australian media’s coverage of China’s efforts to contain COVID-19. The is a critical discourse analysis the major news stories, documentaries, opinions, and published in entire array media, including both television radio programs from taxpayer-funded public broadcaster ABC, commercial media outlets such as Murdoch’s newspaper Nine Entertainment’s Sydney Morning Herald, s...