Sentences with phrase «by broadcasters of»

Acting for Discovery Communications in its successful defence of UK High Court proceedings for trade mark infringement and passing off brought by broadcasters of the History channel, following Discovery's launch of a television channel called «Discovery History».

The sober scrutiny of legislation can go hand - in - hand with a fulsome treatment by broadcasters of our political culture.

Not exact matches

A potential deal for Tribune, first reported by Reuters, could come as soon as Monday, just weeks after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to reverse a 2016 decision that limits the number of television stations some broadcasters can buy.

Canadians were caught off - guard recently when Jian Ghomeshi, the popular host of Canadian Broadcast Corporation's radio show «Q» was fired by the public broadcaster.

Tower of Babble chronicles Stursberg's tumultuous CBC stint from 2004 to 2010, a stretch largely defined by the ongoing debate over what a public broadcaster is and should be.

She did it in part by selling off a 7.8 % stake in TV broadcaster Mediaset and replacing the CEO of the group's core business, Mondadori, Italy's leading book and magazine publisher, where she is pushing an aggressive digital transformation.

84 Lumber said last month the first cut of its ad was rejected by Super Bowl broadcaster Fox for being too political.

Comcast - Universal with the NBC transition: The part that is different — certainly there are similarities in that you're buying a content producer and the various media assets that NBC Universal had — however, NBC was a broadcaster, which is a form of distribution, which was being bought by Comcast, which was a cable operator trying to buy media.

A study cited by local media suggests the number of Norwegians who listen to the radio on a daily basis has dropped by 10 % in a year, and the public broadcaster NRK has lost 21 % of its audience.

The move would be a win for newspaper companies and broadcasters that have pushed for the change for decades, but was criticized by Democrats who said it could usher in a new era of media outlet consolidation.

It's also been helped by a proliferation of Internet - based broadcasters such as Ustream, Livestream.com, and Justin.tv that small business owners can use to stream their feeds for little or nothing.

With increased clout, and broadcasters desperate to get content and ads to us, expect even more of these deals by the little blue bird.

Like several other live stream broadcasters, Livestream.com offers a free service that's supported by advertising, as well as premium plans with lots of extra, including a white - label player companies can put on their own website.

Tait's appointment is the latest in a series of moves the Liberal government has made at the public broadcaster that began in 2016, when it boosted funding to the CBC by $ 675 million over five years.

The deal has been held up by concerns about the influence Murdoch could wield over public opinion through owning all of the broadcaster as...

The deal has been held up by concerns about the influence Murdoch could wield over public opinion through owning all of the broadcaster as well as...

The deal has been held up by concerns about the influence Murdoch could wield over public opinion through owning all of the broadcaster as well as British newspapers including The Times and The Sun.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said its ruling stemmed from a 2008 decision in which it held that Cablevision Systems Corp. could offer a remote digital video recording service without paying additional licensing fees to broadcasters because each playback transmission was made to a single subscriber using a single unique copy produced by that subscriber.

The federal appeals court in New York ruled that Aereo did not violate the copyrights of broadcasters with its service, but a similar service has been blocked by judges in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Euronews was created in the wake of the 1990 Gulf War as a «European CNN» and used to be owned by a consortium of state - owned European channels before Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris took a 53 percent stake in the broadcaster.

The Twitter banner upload did not go unnoticed by Chinese state media, with state broadcaster CCTV flashing screenshots of the photograph on Thursday.

The biggest radio broadcaster in the US with nearly 850 radio stations, iHeartMedia, formerly called Clear Channel Communications — which was acquired by private equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout at the apex of the LBO boom just before the Financial Crisis — has finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after threatening to do so since 2010.

Managed by a dedicated team of TV analysts in Europe, the US and Asia, it addresses the needs of major studios, producers and distributors; broadcasters; channel providers and packagers; platform operators; technology providers; regulators; investors and financial institutions.

The tech giant is working with programmers to offer a bundled service of about 25 channels anchored by broadcasters like ABC, CBS and Fox, on devices such as Apple TV.

By relying on the antennas, Aereo does not pay the kinds of retransmission fees that distributors like Time Warner Cable pay to broadcasters like CBS — an approach that Aereo says is legal, but that the broadcasters say is not.

LONDON — The board of Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm that allegedly exploited information from 50 million Facebook users to help Donald Trump's campaign, suspended CEO Alexander Nix on Tuesday for his comments secretly recorded by a British broadcaster.

But Mr. Lee and others argue that the recent spate of large deals, which also include the $ 16 billion merger of cable companies Liberty Global Inc. and Virgin Media Inc., and the $ 18.1 billion to be spent by Comcast Corp. to buy General Electric Corp. out of broadcaster NBC Universal, are more than coincidental timing.

Thousands of mobile apps are powered by Polar Mobile's SMART ™ Platform for hundreds of media publishers in dozens of countries, including top - tier magazines, newspapers, broadcasters and online portals across the news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle media verticals.

The Fox - Sky deal has been held up by concerns about the influence Murdoch could wield over public opinion through owning all of the broadcaster as well as British newspapers including The Times and The Sun.

A lot of ink has been spilled lately over reports that Canadian content owners and broadcasters, led by Bell Media but including other content players such as Cineplex and broadcaster / ISPs (Rogers, Shaw), are finally proposing a solution to the problem of rogue offshore websites streaming pirated content to Canadian audiences.

Religion News Service: Poll: Queen should remain head of the Church of England Nearly three - quarters of people in England believe Queen Elizabeth II should retain her position as titular head of the Church of England, according to an opinion poll commissioned by Britain's largest television and radio broadcaster.

These broadcasters, who once could not get enough time, have been so effective in their struggle that they now hold a virtual monopoly over air - time used for religious programming, having forced most other religious programs off the air by their cut - throat purchase of time.

A Christian campaigner has spoken with Premier one month since she engaged with the broadcaster in a fierce interview on ITV's This Morning which became side - tracked by the topic of homosexuality.

Broadcasters are considered by their stockholders to be acting in an economically responsible way if they provide programs that are produced very cheaply — even if the programs contain much unnecessary violence — if, in doing so, they reach the largest possible audience and make the largest number of sales and highest possible profits.

Whereas before the low - audience period of Sunday morning was a difficult one in which to sell commercial time, stations have been able to compensate by selling whole blocks of time to the religious broadcasters.

Part of the reason for the takeover of religious television by conservative, paid - time religious broadcasters has been the changes that have occurred in American religious culture, changes that have reduced the power of those broadcasters who represent the mainline denominations while increasing the power of those representing the conservative denominations and groups.

The rapture has become an accepted part of the Christian vocabulary with the publication of the megaselling «Left Behind» novels and a heavily publicized prediction earlier this year by a Christian radio broadcaster that the rapture would occur in May.

One of the problems continually faced by religious broadcasters has been that of handling the large volume of correspondence generated by their programs.

The FCC set hearings on the matter as one of its first orders of business, and in January of l935 recommended that, since the broadcasters were making their facilities available in a spirit of «unity and cooperation,» no fixed percentages of broadcast facilities should be allocated by Congress for the use of nonprofit activities.

For example, as the result of law suits instituted by public - interest groups, the courts held that whenever broadcasters present a particular point of view on a matter of public importance, they also must provide opportunities for opposing viewpoints to be presented.

This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.

One of the most detailed studies of the electronic church ministries was undertaken by Jeffery Hadden, a sociologist, and Charles Swann, a mainline religious broadcaster, in their book, Primetime Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism.

One of the participants at the research conference, an electronic church broadcaster, summed up all of the data by stating, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they're doing!»

And everyone — even most broadcasters — agree that the 1988 Presidential candidate «debates» were not debates at all, but a carefully scripted tip - toe of bland questions not being answered by carefully rehearsed candidates, a charade boring rather than enlightening the viewers.

At the press conference announcing the Annenberg - Gallup study, a member of the audience, himself an electronic - church broadcaster, summed up the report by commenting, rather wistfully, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they «re doing!»

Who benefits when the agency assigned by Congress to regulate television in the public interest instead regulates it in the interest of the broadcasters?

(1) While such extravagant claims may be seen by some as unfortunate overstatements stimulated by the enthusiasm of the preachers and the controversial mood at the time, others see such exaggerations as deliberate deception by the broadcasters, designed to increase their influence

Rightly perceiving the nature of the television environment and having to succeed financially within it, the broadcasters have allowed their programs to be almost totally shaped by it.

When the paid - time religious broadcasters do make the effort to defend themselves and their enterprise against their detractors, they do so by demonstrating how their programs further the mission of the church.

Much of the future influence of the paid - time religious broadcasters may also be modified by the opportunities which they are given to exert it.