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Channel Surfing
Channel surfing (also known as channel hopping or zapping) is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies to find something interesting to watch or listen to. Modern viewers, who may have cable or satellite services beaming down dozens if not hundreds or thousands of channels, are frequently channel surfing. It is common for people to scan channels when commercial broadcasters switch from a show over to running commercials. The term is most commonly associated with television, where the practice became common with the wide availability of the remote control. The first published use of the term is November 1986, in an article by ''The Wall Street Journal''. Viewers' propensity to channel surf was apparently a factor leading toward the current ATSC standard for terrestrial television, digital television in North America. An ATSC signal can be locked onto and start being decoded within about one second, while it can take several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Network
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television show, television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, Multichannel television in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors. Until the mid-1980s, broadcast programming on television in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast network, terrestrial networks. Many early television networks such as the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, PBS, People's Television Network, PTV, NBC or ABC American Broadcasting Company, in the US and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in Australia evolved from earlier radio networks. Overview In countries where most networks broadcast identical, centrally originated content to all of their stations, and where most individual television transmitters therefore operate only as large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alguna Pregunta Més?
''Alguna Pregunta Més?'' (Catalan for "Any more questions?") often referred to by its initials ''APM?'' is a Catalan comedy show aired on the autonomous community's main public TV station TV3 since 2004, being the longest-running humor show in the channel. ''APM?'' has also gained nationwide exposure and popularity thanks to YouTube. The program consists of a humorous recall of the news in Catalonia and the rest of Spain mixing scenes from television shows, documentaries, adverts and films. History ''APM?'' on the radio ''Alguna Pregunta Més?'' was born out of a segment in Catalunya Ràdio's morning program ''El matí de Catalunya Ràdio''. The segment was created by Antoni Bassas and Xavier Bosch in 1995, and consisted of reviewing the news comically using sound bites taken from other radio and television shows. In its early years Bassas was the host of this section, and until 2000 it featured the collaboration of current Antena 3 host Manel Fuentes, who did voice impersonat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blob (TV Series)
Blob may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Blob'' (film series), a franchise of American science fiction monster-horror films ** ''The Blob'', 1958 American science-fiction film ** ''The Blob'' (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film * '' The Blobs'', a 1980 animated TV series * ''Blob'' (video game), 1993 * Blob, a character in ''ClayFighter'' video games * Blob (Marvel Comics), a comic book character * Blobs, a former animated mascot of BBC Three * Blob (card game), a variant of Oh Hell Science and technology Computing * Object storage, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects" * Binary blob, or blob, a non-free object in open source software * Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data * Image blob, a region of an image subject to detection Other uses in science * Blob (visual system), sections of the primary visual cortex * The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large algae bloom in 2009 * The Blob (Pacific Ocean), a mass of warm water in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premiere Zapping
A premiere, also spelled première, (from , ) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work. History Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the film premiere to showman Sid Grauman, who founded Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The first ever Hollywood premiere was for the 1922 film ''Robin Hood'', starring Douglas Fairbanks, in front of the Egyptian Theatre. By the late 1920s the red carpet had become synonymous with film premieres. Classification There are a number of different types: A single work will often have many premieres. For example, in film, the 2019 United States movie ''Aladdin'' held its world premiere at the Grand Rex in Paris, France, on 8 May 2019, its first regional premiere in Jordan on 13 May 2019, and its United States premiere on 24 May 2019. Likewise, in music, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 received its world premiere in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna on 7 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Around The World
''TV Around the World'' (French: ''Toutes les télés du monde'') is a French documentary-magazine series that aired in Arte from 2 April 2005 to 3 September 2011. It explores television from various countries, regions, or minorities and how their history and culture make their programming unique and how it reflects to their communities. The series features behind-the-scenes access to some of the shows featured with interviews from those who worked in them, and talks to television experts and ordinary families who watch the medium. Episodes The seasons are based from the information on Point du Jour International’s website. ; Key A cross (†) denotes that the episode aired exclusively on Arte and not distributed outside the channel. Season 1 (2005) Season 2 (2005) Season 3 (2006) Season 4 (2006–2007) Season 5 (2007–2008) Season 6 (2008–2009) Season 7 (2009–2011) Broadcast ''TV Around the World'' mainly airs on Saturdays, initially during 10:10am as Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal+ (French TV Channel)
Canal+ (, meaning "Channel Plus"), also spelt Canal Plus and sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal, is a French premium television channel owned by Canal+. The channel was launched in Paris and Issy-les-Moulineaux on November 4, 1984, and broadcasts to Metropolitan France. It broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted, but some unencrypted content can be viewed free of charge. Canal+ was co-founded by André Rousselet and Pierre Lescure. An early pioneer was , who joined in 1986. History In 1978, six years before Canal's launch, Jean Frydman, who had the TVCS (Télévision Communication Services) project, was planning a project to launch a fourth television channel in France, which had its roots in the previous Canal 10 project. Whilst waiting for a billing to create an encrypted TV channel, the TVCS project had first planned to produce and broadcast their own programmes during time slots when three French television channels began broadcasting a test card ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
