### telecom | television:

Broadcast television
* is an example of a wireless broadband analog network.
* keeps people at home, in their comfortable chair.

Cable system
* are broadband networks.
* is television

Cable television
* can display images like color photographs - any still television frame.
* has the potential for two-way communication
  - what are called public access channels
* is an enormously wealthy industry that stands to become even wealthier
  - high bandwidth
* medium currently going through a growth explosion.
* so-called natural monopoly.
* uses broadband techniques to deliver dozens of channels over one cable.

### telecom | television:

Digital television
* allows broadcasters to provide higher quality services.
* are far more expensive than analogue televisions.
* brings a new era in broadcasting and computing.
* certainty, a requirement imposed by the federal government.
* is an area where the UK is proving innovative and experiencing strong growth
  - entirely new way of transmitting television pictures
  - at present strongly associated with pay TV in one form or another
  - designed and focused for households
  - increasingly a catalyst for broadband home Internet connection
  - simply the TV equivalent of CDs and DVDs
  - the technology that still requires a better product
* new method of transmitting broadcast television signals.
* new way of broadcasting television signals
* offers opportunities for broadcasters to carry programming on multiple channels.
* uses the same technology that makes computers and CD-players work.

Excessive television
* has an adverse effect upon a child's thinking, learning, and reading habits.
* watching, however, plays a major role in obesity in children.

Interactive television
* dovetails entertainment, commerce, conventional programming and the Internet.
* generic term for a variety of technologies and products.
* hybrid medium.
* is also an important trigger for creativity
  - described as offering e-commerce, gaming, time shifting, and Web browsing

Pay television
* can be an avenue for pornography.
* is one of the toughest and most ruthless businesses apart from organised crime.

Public television
* has a number of links to educational and entertaining children's programs.
* is about the only place where the arts are seen
  - currently among the nation's largest providers of educational services
  - the leader in high-quality, educational children's programs
* public-private partnership that works.

Reality television
* can be quality television.
* is entertainment that's contrived with people coming in on their own volition.

Surveillance system
* are a critical component of the health sector's information system.
* exist at national, state and local levels.
* monitor emerging infectious pathogens and outbreaks of disease.

### telecom | television:

Television broadcasting
* is also a public enterprise
  - state controlled
+ Television programme
  * Television broadcasting presents many different television programmes, one after another. In between television programmes, a channel may use an announcer to tell the audience what the next programme will be. On many channels in many countries, advertisements are shown for short periods of time during and between programme screenings. These advertisements are not a part of the television programme.