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Black Entertainment Television (BET), a subsidiary of Viacom, is the nation's leading 24-hour television network providing quality entertainment, news and public affairs programming for the African-American audience. The BET Network reaches more than 71.3 million households according to Nielsen media research. BET is a dominant consumer brand in the urban marketplace with a diverse group of branded businesses: BET.com, the Number 1 internet portal for African Americans; BET Digital Networks -- BET Jazz, BET Gospel and BET Hip-Hop, a new alternative for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; and BET Books, the nation's leading publisher of African American-themed romance novels under the Arabesque Books label.
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The aim of this project, which began in January 2006, is to explore the relationship between contemporary UK television news and current affairs programming and young people (16-24 year olds). Television could provide an important resource of information, interpretive frameworks and debate about the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of young peoples lives. However, there is evidence of a problem of disconnection between television news, current affairs and young people, just as there is evidence of a broader disconnection between elected political representatives and the public. The reasons for this broader crisis in political representation clearly go beyond the question of media representation, but the latter may well be isomorphic with these deeper problems around a lack of inclusiveness, participation, diversity and engagement. Using content analysis, audience research and interviews with programme makers, this study will explore how extensively television’s representation of news/current affairs would have to be reconfigured (judged against existing output) in order to engage the interest of young people and how far broadcasters are able and/or willing to explore new types of provision in this area.
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BET, a subsidiary of Viacom, Inc, is the nation's leading television network providing quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs programming for the African-American audience. The BET Network reaches more than 78 million households according to Nielsen media research, and can be seen in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. BET is a dominant consumer brand in the urban marketplace with a diverse group of branded businesses: BET.com, the Number 1 Internet portal for African Americans; BET Digital Networks -- BET Jazz, BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Event Productions, specializing in a full range of event production services, including event management, venue selection, talent recruitment, sound, lighting and stage production; and BET Books, the nation's leading publisher of African-American themed romance novels under the Arabesque Books label, and publisher of new imprints Sepia and New Spirit.
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Digital television is a new broadcasting technology that uses digital signals rather than analog signals. Digital television must be the most misleading market ever witnessed. Digital Television is an exciting new technology that changes the way that Free to Air television broadcasters provide their television broadcasts to you, the viewer. Digital television provides better picture quality, improved sound and superior reception to your existing analogue television service. Digital television ... allows broadcasters to provide certain programs in a very high quality picture format equal to that shown in movie cinemas.
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The New York Observer's Rebecca Dana details the moves of some well-known Western television personalities who are joining Al-Jazeera, lured with promises of foreign bureaus and new opportunities. Specifically, she tells of how ex-CNNer Riz Khan described his move to former President Bush and Colin Powell, who apparently were concerned at first but appear to feel a bit better about the situation - once it was clear that this would ultimately allow more coverage of American politics to the Arab people.
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