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Looks at satellite communications from Marconi’s pioneering work with radio waves to Arthur C Clarke’s vision of worldwide communication using geostationary satellites, to Intelsat VI. Other topics...
Demonstrates the potential of satellite television broadcasts as a resource for foreign language learning. Examples in French (15 min), German (15 min) and Spanish (5 min).
Explains the mission of the British National Space Centre (BNSC) of focusing British space activities, to help understand and protect the environment, develop commercial application of space communication...
In 1983 India launched its own multifunctional satellite INSAT 1B to relay telephone, television, radio and data signals across the Indian sub-continent, as well as to collect meteorological data from its...
Looks at the wider implications of satellite technology for India, focusing ib the tensions between the needs of the private television owners (mainly rich, educated and urban) and the needs of the...
The deployment phase for GALILEO, the European programme of civil radio-navigation by satellite will begin in 2006. GALILEO is compatible and interoperable with the American GPS but will furnish a more...
A general outline of the business dimension of the global media industry with detailed analyses of European countries, including Eastern Europe, and a comprehensive coverage of the UK. Covers television...
Filmed in different regions of South Asia from Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan to Kandy in Sri Lanka and in remote villages of Bangladesh and Nepal, the film covers the impact of...
A collection of archival films relating to the history of radio broadcasting.
1: In the early 1980s the provincial government of British Columbia supported the introduction of a province-wide distance education system known as ‘The Knowledge Network’. Based in Vancouver, the...
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