The Topic: Television This 42eXplore project has two extensive companion sites; two more webpages containing hundreds of more site-links for related information on televsion: (1) TV Broadcasters & Production/Distribution Groups contains links to television stations, networks, and more, and (2) Television Programs contains a selected listing of links to specific TV program series. Look there to see if your favorite show is linked.   Easier - Television is an electronic system for sending sounds and images over a wire or through space by devices that change light and sound into electronic signals. Those electrical signals are received and changed back into light (pictures) and sound that can heard and seen on a receiving television set. The television receiver, usually called a television, has a screen for viewing the motion image along with sound from its speaker.   Harder - Television, also called TV, brings moving pictures and sounds from distant places around the world into millions of homes, businesses, and schools. Television even takes viewers out of this world with coverage of the astronauts exploring outer space. It is one of our most important communication technologies. The word television is combined from a Greek word meaning far and a Latin word meaning to see. Television means to see far.   Today almost every home in the United States has a television set; there are over 200 million television receivers. In the average home, the television is operating for about seven hours each day. Television programming provides more entertainment than any other media and is an important cultural influence. Television impacts how we spend our time and money, what we give attention to, and what we learn.   In the late 1940s, regional television stations started sending electronic signals called electromagnetic waves from their transmitters into the airwaves to carry television programs to home antennas But nowadays over-the-air broadcasting is just one of several methods used to distribute television programming. About sixty percent of U.S. homes have cable or wireless cable systems and others receive their programs from satellite systems. Many schools, universities, hospitals, and businesses operate closed-circuit television systems that send programming to their unique network of television sets. Several television stations, networks, and independent producers have recently began web-casting programs over the Internet.   Big Dream Small Screen from PBS American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/technology/bigdream/index.html In 1921, a 14-year-old boy working in a potato field in Idaho had a vision of sending pictures in waves over the air, like sound waves for radio. Related Television History Websites: 2) Birth of Television adapted by H. Landen http://www.videouniversity.com/farnhal.htm 3) Farnovision http://www.farnovision.com/ 4) History of Television (Part 1 of 10) by S.E. Schoenherr http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/television1.html 5) History of Television (Links-site) http://www.nb.net/~schaefer/tvt.html#TELEVISION 6) History of Television from About.com http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelevision.htm 7) Inventing of Television from Inventors Museum http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/television.htm 8) Phylo T. Farnsworth Archives http://philotfarnsworth.com/ 9) Science Hero: Philo T. Farnsworth http://www.myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=philoTFarnsworth 10) Television from How Things Work by L.A. Bloomfield http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/television.html 11) Television: A History by A. Iqbal from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/consumer_electronics/52487 12) Television History - The First 75 Years http://www.tvhistory.tv/ 13) Television in the Fifties by A. Lee from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/broadcasting/31851 14) Television in the Sixties by A. Lee from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/broadcasting/32783 15) Television in the Seventies by A. Lee from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/broadcasting/33586 16) Television in the Seventies (2) by A. Lee from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/broadcasting/34385 17) Television in the Eighties by A. Lee from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/broadcasting/34853 18) Television: Colored-up by A. Iqbal from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/consumer_electronics/53700 19) Who Invented What and When? by P. Schatzkin http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/FARNSWORTH_SPECIAL.html   How Television Works (Page 1 of 9) by M. Brain from HowStuffWorks http://www.howstuffworks.com/tv.htm Television has been around long enough to seem ordinary, but the box that brings TV shows into your home is an amazing device. Find out what's going on inside a TV set. Related Topics from HowStuffWorks: 2) How accessDTV Works (Page 1 of 7) by M. Brain http://www.howstuffworks.com/accessdtv.htm 3) How Cable Television Works (Page 1 of 7) by C. Franklin http://www.howstuffworks.com/cable-tv.htm 4) How Camcorders Work by (Pages 1 of 6) T. Harris http://www.howstuffworks.com/camcorder.htm 5) How Does the Electron Gun Inside a TV Work, and Why is It Called an "Electron Gun"?: Question of the Day http://www.howstuffworks.com/question694.htm 6) How Do Television Ratings Work? How Do They Figure Out How Many People are Watching a Show?: Question of the Day http://www.howstuffworks.com/question433.htm 7) How DVDs and DVD Players Work (Page 1 of 14) by K. Nice http://www.howstuffworks.com/dvd.htm 8) How DVRs Work (Page 1 of 8) by J. Bickers http://www.howstuffworks.com/dvr.htm 9) How EyeVision Works (Page 1 of 4) by S. Brannan http://www.howstuffworks.com/eyevision.htm 10) How Plasma Displays Work (Page 1 of 4) by T. Harris http://www.howstuffworks.com/plasma-display.htm 11) How Projection Television Works (Page 1 of 11) by C.C. Freudenrich http://www.howstuffworks.com/projection-tv.htm 12) How Racef/x Works (Page 1 of 4) by K. Bonsor http://www.howstuffworks.com/racefx.htm 13) How Satellite TV Works (Page 1 of 8) by K. Nice and T. Harris http://www.howstuffworks.com/satellite-tv.htm 14) How VCRs Work (Page 1 of 6) by M. Brain http://www.howstuffworks.com/vcr.htm 15) How the First-Down Line Works (Page 1 of 4) by S. Brannan http://www.howstuffworks.com/first-down-line.htm 16) How Video Editing Works (Page 1 of 13) by M. Brain & R. Reid http://www.howstuffworks.com/video-editing.htm 17) How Video Formatting Works (Page 1 of 12) by T. Harris http://www.howstuffworks.com/video-format.htm 18) What If I Shot My TV? by M. Brain http://www.howstuffworks.com/what-if-shoot-tv.htm 19) What Is All the Flickering When I Try to Record a Television Set Picture with a Video Camera?: Question of the Day http://www.howstuffworks.com/question336.htm   How-to Information for Videographers by P. Utz http://home.att.net/~videoexpert/ Here is an extensive collection of articles written by the author of Today's Video. Related Website: 2) Acting With a Pencil: Storyboarding Your Movie http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/storybd/index.html 3) Audio for Video (Part 1 of 3) from VideoUniversity http://www.videouniversity.com/audio1.htm 4) Complete Training Manual of Videotaping and Editing Techniques by W.G. Ames http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/videomanual1/index.html 5) Creating Your Own Video Project From Start to Finish http://users.rcn.com/maui/EDUWEB/createyourown.pdf 6) Editing from Focus Enhancements http://www.focusinfo.com/articles/ 7) Engineering Primer by H. Landen from VideoUniversity http://www.videouniversity.com/engineer.htm 8) Free Articles and Guides from VideoUniversity http://videouniversity.com/article2.htm 9) Production Tips! from Eyecon Video Productions http://www.eyeconvideo.com/ProdTips.htm 10) Television Production (Comprehensive TV Production Course) by R. Whittaker http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp_ind.htm 11) Video Guide http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/VideoHelp/VideoGuide.html 12) Video Production: Tech Tips Guide by D. Walton & J. Finks from The Concord Consortium http://www.concord.org/resources/video/    Student Broadcasts from by Aviara Oaks Television http://studentbroadcasts.com/ This is an outstanding site for television broadcasting students and teachers. Not-To-Be-Missed Connections: 2) CHSTV Worldwide (Weekday live Internet school broadcast) http://www.chstv.com 3) Listen Up!: Youth Media Network from PBS http://www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup/ 4) Sample School Video Productions http://members.aol.com/Dougteach/vidclips.htm Related Websites: 5) SchoolTV http://www.schooltv.com/ 6) Student Television Network http://www.stnetwork.com/    After visiting several of the websites, complete one or more of the following projects.   Keep A Television Diary. Maintain a detailed diary that records all television programming that you view for one calendar week. Identify the programs seen, keep a log of commercials, and include summary statements, length of viewing time(s), and your appraisals and reactions to what you view.   Create A Television Timeline. Explore the websites that deal with the development and history of television. Follow up by creating a timeline that highlights all the important events in the evolution of television technology. Share that timeline; consider placing it online. An extension or alternative activity would be to create a mural that displays graphically the span of television history.   Compare Television Programming In Two Countries. Pick any two countries and examine the programming featured on Cartoon Network (United States). Look for similarities and differences in the content. Here are some different locations to explore: (1) Cartoon Network (Australia), (2) Cartoon Network (Brazil), (3) Cartoon Network (Denmark), (4) Cartoon Network (France), (5) Cartoon Network (United Kingdom), (6) Cartoon Network (India), (7) Cartoon Network (Italy), (8) Cartoon Network (Japan), (9) Cartoon Network (Mexico), (10) Cartoon Network (Netherlands), (11) Cartoon Network (Norway), (12) Cartoon Network (Poland), (13) Cartoon Network (Spain), (14) Cartoon Network (Sweden). An alternative activity could be to analyze the television news in two different countries. Locate a website or a web-broadcast location in your two countries and examine the news programming for the same calendar date. Websites such as Broadcast Live, Broadband - Television, and Broadcasters to locate and analyze television news.   Practice Being A Television News Anchor. You might begin by practicing reading actual television scripts; you can use ones found in the News Archive of WDBJ-7 from Virginia Tech University. Once you feel that you have the script reading down smoothly, try doing it in front of a video camcorder. View your performance and make notes on areas that need improvement. Keep practicing and improving. Once you feel that you have gained the basic skills, then proceed to writing your own scripts for breaking news of the day. Find some help at Scriptwriting Secrets by S. Sashan. See if your school has its own television broadcast and join the production team.   Rewrite A Television Script. You can find hundreds of actual scripts and transcripts of some of your favorite and maybe not-so-favorite television shows at Drew's Script-o-rama or the Television Transcript Project. Pick one and revise and rewrite it for today's use. Repurpose one of these historical scripts to fit a new television day!   Debate Whether The Classroom Needs To Be As Entertaining As TV! Has education been corrupted by television and other forms of new media? Are classrooms and educational settings doomed to failure because they fail to be as entertaining as television? Debate the issue. You may want to read other people's opinions at Television and the Classroom from University of Texas (Notice that the "discussion forum" has been deactivated; archived messages can be examined but no new messages may be posted). You also can read Neil Postman's Neil Postman's Criticisms of the Television Medium by J. Goldstein.   What Is Your Favorite Television Program? Decide what your favorite TV show is; select one episode or one self-contained program. Reflect on the reasons or factors that influence your choice. What was it about the program that gained your interest and still holds your attention. What sets it apart from most other programs. Detail this procedure in a series of journal entries.   Write A New Script! Pick any television program, and then create a script for a new episode. Make your script an entirely new program. When completed, let your script set a few days - then reread and revise. Make it the best program ever. See if you can get a group of friends together to rehearse and videotape your version.   Websites By Kids For Kids Design Brief: The Invention of the Television from A.C. Davis High School, Yakima, WA http://share4.esd105.wednet.edu/wachtelg/tvmain.htm This site was designed to trace the development of television, how it works, and the roles it has played in the twentieth century.   More Websites Academy of Television Arts and Sciences http://www.emmys.org/ Learn all about the Emmys, the winners, and more. Related Websites: 2) Emmy Online http://www.emmyonline.org/ 3) How the Emmy Awards Work (Page 1 of 4) by P. Nelson from HowStuffWorks http://www.howstuffworks.com/emmy.htm   Australian Children's Television Foundation http://www.actf.com.au/ This site provides a sneak peek at several of the Australian TV shows, and you can visit the learning centre learn even more. Other Sites on Australian Television: 2) Behind the News from ABC http://www.abc.net.au/btn/   Closed Captioning FAQ Index by G. Robson http://www.robson.org/capfaq/ This massive site houses a wide array of information on closed captioning including the technology's application in television. Related Websites: 2) Captioning: The Essentials from WGBH's Media Access Group http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/guides/mag_guide_vol5.html 3) Closed Captioning from Federal Communications Commission http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/closedcaption.html 4) Closed Captioning Web http://www.captions.org/ 5) FCC's Rules for Closed Captioning and Video Description from WGBH's Media Access Group http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/guides/mag_guide_vol3.html 6) National Captioning Institute http://www.ncicap.org/ 7) On Television, How Does Closed Captioning Work?: Question of the Day from HowStuffWorks http://www.howstuffworks.com/question427.htm   Critical Television Viewing Skills http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/hand/critical.htm Critical viewing skills are learned skills that give the viewer the ability to judge the value, truth or technique of a program, to analyze elements of a program, and to appreciate a program's merit (or lack of it). Related Websites: 2) Children, Adolescents, and Television from American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/policy/re0043.html 3) Critical Television Viewing Skills by N. Hoene, WDSE-TV, Duluth MN http://www.med.sc.edu:1081/critical_tv_viewing.html 4) Critical Viewing by L. Ellerbee http://www.action4mediaed.org/criticalview/criticalview.html 5) Critical Viewing: Steps for Families from NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) http://www.nab.org/newsroom/issues/tvguidelines/criticalviewing.asp 6) Critical Viewing, TV Ratings and Online Library from National PTA http://www.pta.org/programs/viewlibr.htm 7) Family Viewing Guidelines-Critical Viewing Tips http://www.danielscablevision.com/pages/60tips.html 8) Guidelines for Family Television Viewing from ERIC Elementary and Early Childhood Education http://ericeece.org/pubs/digests/1990/famtv90.html 9) Media Education from American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/policy/re9911.html 10) Strangers in Our Homes: TV and Our Children's Minds by S.R. Johnson http://www.pressroom.com/~afrimale/johnson.htm   Dictionary of Film, Audio, and Video Terminology http://filmland.com/glossary/Dictionary.html This on-line reference defines terminology applicable in production and post-production of film, video and audio materials. Related Websites: 2) Digital TV Glossary from PBS http://www.pbs.org/digitaltv/glossary.html 3) Television Glossary by J.G. Butler http://www.tcf.ua.edu/TVCrit/glossary.htm   Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements . . . from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html This collection presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast out takes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. Related Websites: 2) AdCritic (Registration required for some parts of the site) http://www.adcritic.com/ 3) Advertisement Ave http://www.advertisementave.com/ 4) Bob Garfield's Ad Review from Ad Age http://adage.com/section.cms?sectionId=20   HDTV: Coming Soon To A Television Near You from NASA http://nasaexplores.com/lessons/01-088/index.html Learn why the days of fuzzy images transmitted from space may soon be history. Related Websites: 2) Film Formats and HDTV: A Case for the Future-Proof Standard http://www.henninger.com/library/hdtvfilm/ 3) HDTV – The Difference Is Clear! from HDTVInfoPort http://hdtvinfoport.com/index.html 4) HDTV Information Source from HD Pictures http://www.hdpictures.com/ 5) HDTV Newsletter Online http://web-star.com/hdtv/hdtvnews1.html 6) HDTV: Watching or Waiting http://www.crutchfield.com/S-92VcsR5xWoA/infocenter/home/tv_hdtv.html?HDPictures.com 7) How HDTV Works (Page 1 of 7) by G. Brown from HowStuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/hdtv.htm   How Digital Television Works (Page 1 of 7) by M. Brain from HowStuffWorks http://www.howstuffworks.com/dtv.htm This site provides an excellent tutorial lesson on digital television. Related Websites: 2) Basics of Digital Television by P.H. Putman from AVS Forum http://www.avsforum.com/hdtvfaq/HDTV-FAQ.htm?HDPictures.com 3) Digital Television FAQs from Digital TV Zone http://www.digitaltvzone.com/info/faq.html 4) Digital TV: A Cringely Crash Course from PBS http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/ 5) Guide to Digital Television, Third Edition http://www.digitaltelevision.com/dtvbook/toc.shtml 6) HDTV: Transition to Digital Television from Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) http://www.ce.org/about_cea/cea_initiatives/viewInitiativesOverview.asp?name=269   I Keep Hearing About V-chip TVs -- What Does a V-chip Really Do and How Does It Work?: Question of the Day from HowStuffWorks http://www.howstuffworks.com/question167.htm As of 1999, all new television sets (over 13 inches / 33 cm) sold in the United States have to contain a V-chip. The "V" stands for "violence," and the goal of the chip is to allow parents to choose the level of violent TV programming that will be allowed into the home. Other Websites on the V-Chip: 2) Frequently Asked Questions About the V-Chip from Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/media/vchip/vchip-faq.html 3) Many Parents Fail to Use V-Chip System at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-00/cam-ra-6-27-00.htm 4) Moral and Political Significance of the V-Chip by B. Burke, Center for Educational Priorities http://www.cep.org/vchip.html 5) Survey Shows Few Parents Use TV V-Chip to Limit Children's Viewing by J. Rutenberg at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-01/cam-ra-7-25-01.htm 6) V-chip from Media Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/manmed/vchip.htm 7) V-Chip: Viewing Television Responsibly from Federal Communications Commission http://www.fcc.gov/vchip/   Kids Corner from Media Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/kids/kindex.htm Here you can find out how television shows and movies are produced and marketed and learn how to be a more aware viewer.    Narrative Television Network (NTN) http://www.narrativetv.com/ Since 1988, NTN has been a leader in making television programming and movies accessible to blind and visually impaired people and their families. Related Websites: 2) Descriptive Video from DishNetwork http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/programming/desc_video/index.shtml 3) Guidelines for Accessing Alternative Format Educational Materials from National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/guidelines.html 4) News Notes on Video Description from American Council of the Blind http://www.artsaccessinc.org/AAacb1.html 5) Services for People with Disabilities from WGBH http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/access/ 6) What You Need to Know About Video Description and How to Get It by C.H. Crawford from American Council of the Blind http://www.acb.org/resources/video-description020416.html   NTSC Television Tutorials (National Television System Committee) http://www.ntsc-tv.com/ Here you find an extensive collection of technical tutorials on video circuits and television.   Report on Children's Television from Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/media/medianow/mnspring1997.html This report looks at the quality of children's television and how many quality television programs there are for kids.   Television Project by A. Pluhar http://www.tvp.org/ This biased website advocates empowering parents to control television use and discover alternatives. Related Sites: 2) Guilt Free TV from Children Now by D. McGinn from Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-02/cam-ra-11-11-02.htm 3) Kill Your Television by R. Kaufman http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/ 4) Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor by R. Kubey and M. Csikszentmihalyi from Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005339B-A694-1CC5-B4A8809EC588EEDF 5) Television as a Tool: Talking with Kids about TV from Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/television/tv-as-a-tool.htm 6) TV Turnoff Network http://www.tvturnoff.org/   TV Acres http://www.tvacres.com/ Check out this subject guide to television program facts from the 1940's to the present. Related Websites: 2) Classic Television Webring http://v.webring.com/hub?sid=&ring=ctv&id=&list 3) Classic TV Database http://www.classic-tv.com/ 4) Classic TV Favorites http://tvfavorites.cjb.net/ 5) Television Heaven http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/ 6) TV in the 50s http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv50.htm   TV & Movies from MysteryNet http://www.mysterynet.com/tvmovies/ This site is devoted exclusively to mystery, suspense, detective, and crime programs and movies on network and cable television.   Television and Gender from University of Wales, Aberystwyth http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/tv05.html This is a huge links-collection for resources and information related to television diversity. Related Sites: 2) Another Take on Diversity by A.J. Frutkin at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-02/cam-ra-5-6-02a.htm 3) Networks Are Still Struggling With Diversity, Study Says by G. Braxton at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-00/cam-ra-7-18-00.htm 4) Study: TV Diversity Still Lags by L. Elber at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-02/cam-ra-6-4-02.htm   TV Viewing and Parental Guidance from Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/tv.html Some of the research studies indicate that increasing guidance from parents is at least as important as simply reducing the amount media violence seen.   Tutorials (Advanced level) from MLESAT http://www.mlesat.com/tutorial.html This collection of technical articles covers a range (HDTV, video compression, satellite communications frequencies, and more) of satellite television subjects and issues.   Video Technology General information http://www.epanorama.net/links/videogeneral.html This is the home of an extensive collection of links for information on video technology. Related Sites: 2) How It Works: Television from Radio Design Group http://www.radiodesign.com/tvwrks.htm 3) How Television Works by H. Manchester http://users.bigpond.net.au/emmerik/Omnibus/HowTvWorks.html   Violence on Television - What do Children Learn? What Can Parents Do? from American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/violence.html This February 1985 public information brochure informed broadcasters and the public of the devastating effects television violence can have on children. Related Websites: 2) Chasing the Effects of Media Violence by K. Durkin http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/violence/resource/articles/chasefx.htm 3) Children Mimic TV Sex and Violence, Psychiatrist's Study Says by R. Saltus at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-01/cam-ra-3-26-01.htm 4) Hour of TV a Day Leads to Violence, Study Finds by M. Fox at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-02/cam-ra-3-28-02.htm 5) Media Violence from Media Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/violence/ 6) Media Violence from American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/policy/re0109.html 7) Media Violence and the American Public: Scientific Facts Versus Media Misinformation http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/2000-2004/01BA.ap.html 8) National Television Violence Study from Center for Communication and Social Policy http://www.ccsp.ucsb.edu/ntvs.htm 9) Report Says Violent Media Harm Kids by J. Leeds at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-01/cam-ra-1-17-01.htm 10) Report: Violent Media Sways Children Immensely by L. Mascaro at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-01/cam-ra-11-5-01.htm 11) Sex and Violence on TV: It's on the Decline, Study Finds by M. Garvey at Children Now http://www.childrennow.org/newsroom/news-02/cam-ra-3-21-02.htm 12) Television and Violence (Links-site) from University of Wales, Aberystwyth http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/tv07.html   Museums Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago, Illinois) http://www.museum.tv/ Museum of Television & Radio (Los Angeles, California) http://www.mtr.org/ MZTV Museum of Television (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) http://www.mztv.com/   Online Magazines-Newspapers-Guides for Television Digital Television http://www.digitaltelevision.com/ Direct TV http://www.directv.com/ epguides (Archive of TV episodes) http://www.epguides.com/ Gist TV Listings http://www.gist.com/tv/ HDTV Magazine http://www.ilovehdtv.com/ Television from Entertainment Weekly http://www.ew.com/ew/tv/ Television from Variety http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=dept_main&dept=TV Television from USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/front.htm TV & Radio from Los Angeles Times CalendarLive http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/ TV Guide Online http://www.tvguide.com/ TV Latina http://www.tvlatina.net/ TV Technology http://www.tvtechnology.com/ TV Tome http://www.tvtome.com/ Videomaker Online http://www.videomaker.com/ Zap2it http://tv.zap2it.com/   Television Critique Eric Deggans, Times Television Critic from St. Petersburg Times http://www.sptimes.com/columns/deggans.shtml Read his current columns and articles critiquing television programming. Related Website: 2) Television from Matinee Magazine (Article archive) http://www.matineemag.com/Television/   Kids First from the Coalition for Quality Children's Media http://www.kidsfirstinternet.org/kidsfirst/flash4nn.html This group provides a list of videos, CD-ROMs, and television programs considered to be appropriate for children.   Television: The Opposite of Art by C. Rothe from Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/society_arts/47155 This contemporary article criticizes the current wave of reality shows in television.   Web Broadcasts of Television Programming If you would like to view television on your computer, visit the following websites. Some of the available programs are broadcast as they occur (real-time) or are archived copies (Downloaded on demand). All require media player software on your computer such as Real Media, Quicktime Download from Apple, or Windows Media Download Center. Correct versions of these software can be downloaded for free and all three now have versions for the latest operating systems in both Windows and Mac formats.   Live Television from Around the World from Broadcast Live http://www.broadcast-live.com/television/index.html Live television broadcasts are available from a number of countries including Belgium, Croatia, Canada, France, Germany and the UK. Connect to them here. Related Websites: 2) Broadband - Television http://broadband-television.com/ 3) Yahoo - Broadcast (Index to Webcasts) http://broadcast.yahoo.com/home.html 3 Angels Broadcasting Network http://www.3abn.org/television/index.html America One: (1) http://www.broadcast.com/video/windowsmedia/america_one/ (Real-time stream) and (2) http://www.americaone.com/watchus/web.htm America Television (Peru) http://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/noticias.asp (Archived stream) Annenberg / CPB Channel http://www.learner.org/channel/channel.html (Real-time stream) Bloomberg Television http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/index.html Booknotes http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp Book TV http://www.booktv.org/watch/ Channel One http://www.channelone.com/video/ (Archived steam) C-SPAN Live http://www.c-span.org/watch/ (Real-time & archived) CTV Newsnet (Canada) http://www.ctv.ca/ (Real-time stream) Eastview High School Television (EVTV) http://www.isd196.k12.mn.us/schools/evhs/evtv.htm (Real-time stream) Free Speech TV http://www.freespeech.org/ GreenLine TV http://www.greenlinetv.com/ (Archived productions) Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/# (Archived & real-time stream) MSNBC News http://www.msnbc.com/m/v/video_news.asp NASA Television http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ (Real-time & archived stream) National Geographic: (1) National Geographic Live Events, (2) Archives, (3) News in Streaming Video National Ocean Conference http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/oceanc/broadc.html (Archived stream) NOVA Programs Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs.html PBS: Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (Delayed webcast) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/index.html RCTV (Venezuela) http://www.rctv.net/ SCOLA Steaming Video http://www.scola.org/streaming/index.html (Archived stream) Vintage TV on the Internet from Shokus http://www.shokus.com/videos.html (Archived stream) Voice of America News (Real-time & delayed stream) http://www.voanews.com/article.c . . . Watch Now from WRN http://www.wrn.org/watch.html (Archived stream) Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/index.html WHDH-TV News (NBC Ch. 7, Boston) http://www.whdh.com/video/   Websites For Teachers Cable In the Classroom http://www.ciconline.org/ This nonprofit cable industry consortium provides information and resources to help teachers teach and children learn using their technologies and programming. Related Website: 2) Cable in Education from AT&T http://www.att.com/cableineducation/   DataBank from National Council for the Social Studies http://databank.ncss.org/index.php?topic=worthwatching Here social studies teachers can learn about upcoming television programming.   Free Educational Videos from Video Placement Worldwide http://www.vpw.com/educational/ Here is a list of educational videos and teaching materials available for free-loan to educators and youth leaders.   Ideas for Creating Student Video Projects and Educational Tools from Videonics http://www.videonics.com/T-and-D/curriculum.html Looking for ideas for student and school video projects? This site has several and contains other useful information. Related Websites: 2) Evaluating Student Videos from CyberCollege http://www.cybercollege.com/gdvid.htm 3) Integrating Video into the Classroom http://www.aea6.k12.ia.us/ron/index.html   Gender Equity - Media Literacy (Grades 9-12) from Western Massachusetts Gender Equity Center http://www.genderequity.org/medialit/contents.html The overall goals of this curriculum are to increase awareness of media influence on attitudes and behavior of male and female middle and high school students, specifically in regards to gender equity issues, and to increase ability to think critically about these influences and translate learning into appropriate action.   PBS and Extended Taping Rights from PBS TeacherSource http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/copyright/copyright_trights.shtm Here are details about copyright and off-air taping of PBS programming. Related Websites: 2) Education's Taping Rights for Cable TV http://www.cliu.org/CNI/DistanceLearning/tv/cable2.htm 3) Guidelines for Off-Air Taping for Educational Purposes (Kastenmeier Guidelines) http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Kastenmeier.html 4) Instructional Television (TV) Programming and Taping Guidelines from PBS TeacherSource http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/copyright/copyright_faqs3.shtm 5) PBS: Teachers' Choice Well-Deserved by P. Miller http://www.knpb.org/commentsabouteducation/199901.asp   Teaching with TV from New Hampshire Public Television http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/howtoitv.htm This website presents utilization strategies, VCR/tape tips, and information about building a video library. Related Website: 2) Using Video in the Classroom http://www.mvrhs.org/netsite/School/library/How_to/TV_VCR_Video/Using_Video.html   Understanding Television (Grades 9-12) from DiscoverySchool http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/understandingtelevision/ Producing a television show is a complex task that requires many skills, many people, and a great deal of thought and planning. Lead students in learning about television production.    For Teachers & Classrooms ABC Family - Cable in the Classroom http://abcfamily.go.com/cableintheclass.html A&E Classroom http://www.aande.com/class/ BBC Learning (British Broadcasting) http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/ Bravo TV: In the Classroom http://www.bravotv.com/classroom/ Cable in the Classroom at SciFi http://www.scifi.com/cableinclassroom/ Cable in the Classroom at Showtime http://sho.com/cic/ Cable in the Classroom at USA Network http://www.usanetwork.com/cableinclassroom/ Cable in the Classroom Fact Sheet from MTV http://www.hotlink.mtvn.com/cic/mtvmarkc.html CNN Student News http://learning.turner.com/newsroom/ C-SPAN in the Classroom http://www.c-span.org/classroom/ Discovery School http://school.discovery.com/ Educator at ESPN http://www.espnsportsfigures.com/sportsfigures/edu_home.jsp History Channel Classroom http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/index.html History Channel International Classroom http://www.historyinternational.com/classroom/ Music Studio from VH1 http://www.vh1musicstudio.com/ PBS TeacherSource http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ Teacher Resources from CNN Student News http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/teachers/ Teachers from Nickelodeon http://www.nickjr.com/grownups/teachers/ Teachers from PBS NOVA http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/ This Week in the Classroom from National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/channel/cic.html Turner Learning Educator Guides (CNN and Turner programming) http://turnerlearning.com/edguides.html WAM Makes A Difference http://www.starzsuperpak.com/se/wam/wam_make_diff.html Weather Education from the Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/education/   television transmitter monochrome broadcast TV antenna cable camcorder flat screen special effects radio ads test pattern phosphor test pattern vacuum tube video Emmy studio closed-circuit TV satellite TV audio storyboard audiovideo digital television props Federal Communications Commission closed captioning HDTV cathode ray tube invention teleprompter analog TV digital TV light sound electromagnetic wave television standards camera angle chroma key camera shot distance education editing satellite color bars camera movement lighting television production aspect ratio electronic signal interlaced-scan closed captioning television standard image resolution image        Created by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, 1/03.