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The Forthcoming DTV Tsunami - February 18, 2009

Submitted by Elsa on Wed, 2008-01-30 22:22.
Categories: Popular Education | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Article | Broadcast | Interactive feature | Access | Congress | Digital divide | DTV | Public Infrastructure & Access | Public/Community Accountability | Regulation | TV | United States | About the Policy Issues

introduction to potential social impact of 2009 DTV transition

http://flowtv.org/?p=911

Nolan Bowie: Bridging the Digital TV Gap (Op-Ed)

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2007-06-29 14:54.
Categories: Article | Broadcast | Access | DTV | FCC | Regulation | Telecom Act | TV | United States | About the Policy Issues

A look at the consequences of the FCC mandate to convert broadcast signals to digital by Feb. 2009.

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgnews/Features/opeds/061107_bowie.html

Can the Marketplace Deliver the Media System We Need?

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2007-04-21 16:04.
Categories: Article | Broadcast | Access | Censorship | Content | FCC | Representation | Storytelling | TV | United States | About the Policy Issues

public interest failings of commercial media

http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/5538

Latinos seek representation in Ken Burns WWII PBS series

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2007-04-21 11:36.
Categories: Article | Broadcast | Content | Representation | Representation | TV | United States | About the Policy Issues

Latinos seek representation in major PBS series on WWII.

http://www.media-alliance.org/medianews/archives/003202.php

Bigger Media Does Not Equal Better Media - New Studies from Benton/SSRC

Submitted by ktaglang on Sun, 2006-10-29 20:07.
Categories: Academic Research | Broadcast | Cable | Community networks | Radio | Spectrum/wireless | Concentration/Consolidation | Content | Digital divide | FCC | Gender | Ownership | Public Interest Obligations | Public/Community media | Race | Regulation | United States | Women | About the Policy Issues

Media Policy Blog

Submitted by Elsa on Sun, 2006-04-30 13:17.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Changing Policy | Broadcast | Interactive feature | Internet | Access | Community Media | Congress | Diversity | Independent media | Independent media | Online civil liberties | Public broadcasting | Public Infrastructure & Access | Public Interest Obligations | Public/Community media | Regulation | TV | United States | Web | About the Policy Issues | Key Technologies for Media Activists

Media Reform Forum & Updates on Policy Issues (community TV, open internet, etc.)

http://www.mediapolicyblog.org/

Media Democracy: Fact Sheets (Free Expression Policy Project, Brennan Center for Justice)

Submitted by Elsa on Wed, 2006-03-01 22:47.
Categories: Report (series) | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Changing Policy | Broadcast | Cable | Internet | Spectrum/wireless | Access | Congress | FCC | Handout/flyer | Ownership | Public Infrastructure & Access | Regulation | United States | About the Policy Issues

Excellent background information, key players and concerns of the media democracy movement in the U.S.

http://www.fepproject.org/factsheets/mediademocracy.html

Television Networks in the 21st Century: Growing Critical Mass in a Fragmented World

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2005-11-03 16:24.
Categories: Report/White Paper | Broadcast | Access | Advertising/Commercialism | Global Policies | Global/International | Globalization | TV

dtt_tmt_TelevisionnetworksGLOBAL_042005.pdf (234.36 KB)

Thu, 2005-11-03 16:00

Television: new strategies to reach audiences

Television across Europe: Regulation, Policy and Independence (2005)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2005-11-03 16:16.
Categories: Report (series) | Broadcast | Access | Concentration/Consolidation | Europe & Central Asia | Noncommercial set-asides | Radio/TV infrastructure | TV | Global media/communication movement(s)

englishpr.pdf (50.51 KB)

Thu, 2005-11-03 16:00

Television and Public Interest

Strengths, Challenges, and Collaboration: Advocacy groups organizing on media ownership and beyond

Submitted by cima on Mon, 2005-06-27 07:44.
Categories: Connecting the Pieces | Report/White Paper | History of media/communications policy activism | National/local groups working together | Broadcast | Access | Coalitions | Concentration/Consolidation | Constituency-building | Diversity | Diversity | FCC | Gatherings & Meetings | Grassroots/local organizing | Meeting Notes | National and Local Groups | Regulation | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Media activists and advocates reflect on their collaborations during the 2003 media-ownership campaign and consider the needs and opportunities for effective media-change activism. (37 pages, March 2004)