TCOM 463  Telecommunications Programming

Instructor: Dr. Louisa Ha
West Hall 320
Telephone: (419) 372-9103
E-mail: louisah@bgnet.bgsu.edu
(updated August 15, 2008)

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Course Syllabus

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Major Cable Networks(number of subscribers as of 12/2003)

• A&E (87,700,000)
• AMC (85,000,000)
• BET (78,000,000)
• C-SPAN (87,800,000)
• Cinemax (39,000,000)
• Comedy Central   (84,800,000)
• CNBC (86,200,000)
• CNN (88,200,000)
• Discovery Channel   (88,600,000)
• Disney (84,000,000)
• E! Entertainment   (84,000,000)
• ESPN (88,400,000)
• Food(82,000,000)
• ABC Family   (Formerly Fox Family) (86,800,000)
• History Channel  (85,800,000)
• HBO  (39,000,000)
• Home and Garden (86,000,000)
• LIFE (Lifetime   TV) (87,500,000)
• MTV (86,700,000)
• Nickelodeon (87,900,000)
• Sci-Fi Channel (83,000,000)
• Showtime   (34,800,000)
• Spike TV (87,200,000)
• TBS   (88,100,000)
• TLC (The Learning   Channel)(87,000,000)
• Travel Channel   (74,900,000)
• TNT (88,200,000)
• USA (88,100,000)
• VH1 (86,300,000)
• Weather Channel   (87,500,000)

Useful Links

Trade Press

Advertising Age
A weekly magazine on the advertising and media industry with plenty of industry statistics and news.
Broadcasting and Cable
A weekly magazine published by Cahners Publishing and read by executives of television and radio stations, networks, cable operations and allied fields.
Broadcasting & Cable covers virtually every TV station, every major market radio station, major cable operations and all key regulations and legislators
Cable World
A weekly news and analysis magazine for the cable TV industry. It provides data to executives for staying abreast of technological changes and competitive
challenges -- while staying within budget.

C21Media.Net

An international media entertainment news hub and community.

Futon Critics
A resource for television advertising rates, prime time television schedules and shows in production.

Media Life Magazine
An online daily news source about media industry
Media Week
A weekly magazine that covers advertising business and management issues of commercial media
Multi-Channel News
The current week's important news to the cable television and telecommunications industries both domestically and internationally.
PK Baseline
Comprehensive online information services for the entertainment and media communications industries. Subscribers can access: credits, synopses, awards and morefor over 50,000 films, TV series, specials and made for TV movies, current production details, personnel listings, addresses and phone numbers of thousands of companies and corporate players, current and archived editions of Paul Kagan's DBS Report Newsletter, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Cable World magazine and the newswires, box office estimates and actuals, video rentals, production costs, print and ad costs.

Spots and Dots
The daily news of TV sales
Television Week
A weekly magazine that covers the programming business of television in broadcasting, cable and syndication, including local stations, broadcast and cable networks, direct broadcast satellite and the Web.

TV.Com
Listing of TV programs and video clips from popular TV shows of all time by CNET network.

*TV-Tracker
TVtracker.com is the television industry's online, on-time source for development and programming news as it breaks (part of the site need paid registration to access).  Free on world TV news, daily rating analysis and prime-time schedule.

TV Spy
A web site listing hot topics in the TV industry with discussion forum, job listings and professional service listings.

*USA Today Television Page
Entertainment News of the TV industry with list of top 10 shows with highest TV ratings

Variety
Variety is weekly magazine about news on the entertainment industry published since 1905.

Zap2it (formerly Ultimate TV)
Guide to What's Onscreen TV, Movies and the Internet.  Very good audience ratings information.


Government
Federal Communication Commission (FCC)

Media Trade Associations

• Association of Independent Video and Filmakers(AIVF)
• Association of National  Advertisers (ANA)
• American Association  of Advertising Agencies(AAAA)
• Broadcast Education  Association (BEA)
• Cable-Television  Advertising Bureau (CAB)
• Cable TV Center
• Cable & Telecommunications  Association for Marketing (CTAM)
• Interactive  Advertising Bureau (IAB)
• International Radio  and Television Society (IRTS)
• Media Communications  Association International (MCA-I/ITVA)
• National Association  of Broadcasters(NAB)
• National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE)
• National  Cable Television Association(NCTA)
• Ohio Association of  Broadcasters(OAB)
• The Association  of Promotion and Marketing Executives in Electronic Media (PROMAX)
• Promotional Marketing  Association (PMA)
• Radio Advertising Bureau  (RAB)
• Television Bureau of  Advertising (TvB)

TV Audience Ratings Research Data

• *Nielsen
• *Katz TV Programming Newsletter

• *Sources for TV Audience Ratings Information