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Television ... The etymology of the word has a mixed Latin and Greek origin, meaning "far sight": Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin visio, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view in the first person). Commercially available since the late 1920s, the television set has become commonplace in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as a vehicle for advertising, a source of entertainment, and news...

Public ... So in political science and history, a public is a population of individuals in association with civic affairs, or affairs of office or state... John Dewey defined (Dewey 1927) a public as a group of people who, in facing a similar problem, recognize it and organize themselves to address it... A public is a subset of the set of stakeholders for an organization, that comprises those people concerned with a specific issue...

Television In Colombia ... Initially television in Colombia was public, with emphasis on education and cultural topics until the government developed a system of concessions, in which the State was in charge of the television infrastructure and gave programming slots in the channels for private companies known as programadoras, similar to the syndication system that is still used in the United States: networks and TV channels broadcast TV programs that were not produced by them. In 1963 Inravisión, the public broadcaster, was created...

Television In The United Kingdom ... Over the next 30 years, whilst the network of transmitters expanded, two additional commercial services were offered (Channel 4 and Channel Five). This system is currently being phased out, from 2008 to 2012...

Social Aspects Of Television ... They refer to this finding as the Social Surrogacy Hypothesis. Furthermore, when an event such as a fight or argument disrupts a personal relationship, watching a favorite TV show was able to create a cushion and prevent the individual from experiencing reduced self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy that can often accompany the perceived threat...

Television In New Zealand ... In New Zealand, in addition to a legacy analogue network, there are three forms of broadcast digital television. Satellite services provided nationwide by both Freeview and Sky, terrestrial DVB-T service provided in the main centres by Freeview and Igloo, and cable service available in Wellington and Christchurch from TelstraClear...

Geographical Usage Of Television ... From 2000 onwards, India also encouraged new private stations. Star TV, which is based in Hong Kong, has expanded to other areas in Asia recently...

Television In Switzerland ... Romansh-speaking Swiss had to wait until 1963 for the first programme in their language, a full decade after regular television transmission were initiated and, to this day, there's no television channel broadcasting exclusively in Romansh language. The 1960s also saw the arrival of television advertising, in 1964, and of colour television, in 1968...

Television In Italy ... The public broadcaster RAI is, unlike the BBC which is controlled by an independent trust, under direct control of the government... The Berlusconi II Cabinet started promoting the digital format in December 2003 by granting a public financial contribution for the purchase of a MHP digital television decoder...

BBC ... The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary...

Television In Brazil ... As a matter of fact, the first national public television network, TV Brasil, was only launched on December 2, 2007, the same day that digital television was introduced in the country, initially limited to the cities of Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Luís and São Paulo...

Mechanical Television ... The earliest mechanical television components originated with 19th century inventors, with 20th century inventors later adding electronic components as they were created. Mechanical systems were used in television broadcasting from 1925 to 1939, overlapping the all-electronic television era by three years...

Television In Portugal ... History On March 7, 1957 public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) began broadcasting RTP1, the first television channel in the country... Terrestrial See Digital terrestrial television in Portugal List of free-to-air terrestrial channels RTP1: the flagship channel of RTP, the Portuguese public broadcasting corporation, and presents a general programming composed mainly by news, talk shows, discussion-based programmes, national and international fiction and drama and entertainment...

Television In Norway ... If licence is granted NTV during 2005, the company says it plans to roll-out infrastructure during 2006-2009, offering the Norwegian public between 15 and 18 TV stations; of them NRK1, NRK2, TV2, TV2 Zebra and a local channel...

Television In Spain ... Antena 3, Telecinco and Canal+ were launched in 1990, in January, March and September respectively, finishing the public television monopoly in Spain... Through the 1990s and 2000s (decade), more autonomic channels (most of them public, but some of them private) were launched, and all of them created FORTA, a union of public autonomic channels...