Television Production
Television Production is a process to create a television program. It includes pre-production, production and post-production.
Media Management and Production
Characteristics of Television
An audio-visual medium TV has both sound and sight. A TV broadcast is conceived and produced and received in audio-visual terms. As eyes absorbs and retain much more than the ear so, TV broadcasts have greater influence on viewers than radio’s audience. Features of other media It has borrowed movement from stage, camera from the …
Commercial Radio Broadcasting in India: FM Radio
A committee of Broadcasting and Information Media was setup in 1964 under the chairmanship of A.K. Chanda, well known as ‘Chanda Committee’. It gave its report in 1966. On the basis of its recommendation television was delinked from radio and the TV set up was called Doordarshan in 1976. Another important recommendation was for the …
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All India Radio (AIR)
In India, like in many other countries, amateur’s radio clubs were the first to start broadcasting. Organized broadcasting in India was started by the Indian Broadcasting Company (IBC) in 1927. However IBC was a financial failure in spite of a loon from the government and it was closed down in March, 1930. Under pressure from …
Radio Technology
Radio or Radio Data Systems (RDS) is a technology which works in conjunction with FM Radio (Frequency Modulation) AM radio The radio station find on the dial between 540 kHz and 1600 kHz are known by three names: AM (Amplitude Modulation) AM referring to the method used to impose the program on carrier waves. 10 …
Development of Radio as Mass Communication
The 1920s witnessed the coming of radio broadcasting in many countries, including India. However, during World War I, the need of radio started taking the shape of reality. First time, during war, the need of wireless transmission is realized to communicate with allies, First time transmits set up in England and Navy took over station …
Characteristics of Radio
Radio Makes Pictures Radio is a sightless or a viewless medium. In radio, either the performer or listener cannot see each other. Therefore it is called blind medium. Since it is a blind or sightless medium, the performer as well as listener has to creatively imagine each other. So that as soon as voice comes …
Scriptwriting for Television
Television Script Format Format and story structure are well defined for television programming. A 1/2 hour story runs about 22 minutes; an hour show, about 45 minutes with commercials placed for the remaining time. The breaks must be in the right spot and needed to be compelling enough to bring the viewer back to the …
History of TV Journalism in India
Television Broadcast has started as an experimental basis with a financial grant from UNESCO on 15th September 1959 In 1965, daily one-hour program with a news bulletin was started Before 1990s, Doordarshan had monopolized newscast on television As a public broadcaster, Doordarshan presented the news in naturalized manner. All controversial issues were pushed under the …
Radio Transmission
WHAT IS RADIO? “Radio\” is a gadget or, electronic device that we listen to. Technically Radio is a method of transmitting electrical energy from one place to another without using any kind of direct, wired connection. There are two main devices used in radio transmission; one is transmitter and another is receiver Transmitter sends out …