College athletes help generate billions of dollars in revenue through TV deals, but colleges aren’t allowed to compensate them for their fame.
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College athletes have made substantial progress in being able to get paid for the use of their name, image and likeness − except in one realm.
The Six Nations Championship is classified as a ‘category B’ tournament by the UK government.
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When Six Nations’ broadcasting deal with the BBC and ITV ends in 2025, there are fears the tournament could move to a subscription service.
How will we preserve technologies so deeply embedded in daily life?
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Scholars, preservationists, archivists, museum educators and curators, fans and the public are meeting in late April in the nation’s capital to figure out how to preserve broadcasting’s history.
The drama series Rough Cut on Netflix follows a group of misfits as they try to pull off a diamond heist.
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Welsh language heist drama, Dal y Mellt, is being streamed on Netflix with the title, Rough Cut.
Hundreds of thousands of hours of broadcasting history are available for the first time.
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The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.
BBC Wales sports presenter Catrin Heledd.
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The BBC is celebrating 100 years of broadcasting in Wales.
An estimated 3.5 million Americans viewed the first televised World Series at bars, restaurants and storefronts.
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Just five days before the first pitch of the 1947 World Series, a deal was struck to air the Series on television.
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Select committee submissions on the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill favour its goals, but major structural, governance and cultural challenges remain unresolved.
Recent fines on media houses in Nigeria are attempts to gag them.
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Media houses fined recently by Nigeria’s Broadcasting Commission for documentaries on terrorism should approach the courts for redress.
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Reality shows now have a duty of care to their contestants
Barber called Scully, pictured in a broadcast booth prior to a Brooklyn Dodgers game, ‘the son I never had.’
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Legendary broadcaster Red Barber took a chance on Scully when he asked him to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Three years later, Scully was the voice of the World Series.
Another era: then opposition leader Tony Abbott (left) with Q&A presenter Tony Jones during the 2010 election campaign.
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The stakes are too high for business as usual on the flagship program
Horrible Histories is one of CBBC’s successful original programmes that entertains and educates children.
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Lessons from putting the broadcaster’s other youth channel, BBC Three, online don’t seem to have been learnt
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What could the British public lose when the BBC licence is pulled?
BBC Three is returning to UK screens.
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Despite belief that its demographic watch mostly on-demand through devices, there is logic to bringing BBC 3 back to TV.
Star and creator of hit show I May Destroy You, Michaela Cole.
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Despite repeated pledges to improve diversity, data and industry testimony shows that there are fewer people from minority backgrounds getting jobs in the film and TV industries.
Father Coughlin’s bully pulpit.
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Broadcasters silenced Father Charles Coughlin in 1938, just as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have shut down pro-Trump incitements to violence in 2021.
Have I Got News for You’s Ian Hislop and guest Zoe Lyons on a recent episode filmed in isolation.
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With no in-studio audiences, the Laff Box should be used more by comedy shows.
TV shows are going out without audiences but some are finding novel ways to include participation.
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Shows are being broadcast to empty studios but audiences are fundamental to the quality of entertainment.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasting his first fireside chat, March 12, 1933.
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On March 12, 1933, President Roosevelt addressed the nation from the Oval Office during a time of great crisis. That ‘fireside chat’ proved broadcasting’s power as nothing before or since.