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Like other television programming, sign-on and sign-off sequences can be initiated by a broadcast automation system, and automatic transmission systems can turn the carrier signal and transmitter on/off by remote control. [a] Sign-on and sign-off sequences have become less common due to the increasing prevalence of 24/7 broadcasting.
Hill Street Blues is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, [1] to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. [2] The show chronicles the lives of the Metropolitan Police Department staff of a single police station located on Hill Street in an unnamed large U.S. city.
A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at sign-on and sign-off). [1] Used since the earliest TV broadcasts, test cards were originally physical cards at which a television camera was ...
The code was created to self-regulate the industry in hopes of avoiding a proposed government Advisory Board [1] and satisfying parental concerns over violence and other matters. [2] Prior to the Television Code, the 1935 NAB Code of Ethics for radio was applied to television but fewer than half of television stations subscribed to it; when the ...
[1] [8] He always wore a dinner jacket and Stuart Hibberd described him as "a neat figure in perfectly cut evening dress, with eye glass and a slim black brief case". [9] [10] It was known that "A. J. Alan" was not his true name but only once, in 1933, was his identity guessed when an old school friend, by then living in Jamaica, recognised his ...
In the Dominican Republic, the Indian-head pattern was used by its public broadcaster Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV) in the late-1960s and 1970s (in conjunction with the EIA 1956 resolution chart test card) after playing the National Anthem of the Dominican Republic at sign-off. Swedish botanist and radio and TV personality ...
The following is a list of over-the-air affiliates of the Home Shopping Network in the United States.The network itself owns several low-power stations throughout the United States, usually under its broadcast division Ventana Television.
Television continuity announcements typically take one of two forms: Out-of-vision , where only the announcer's voice is heard, either over the end sequence of a programme or on-screen graphics. With appropriate training in sound and vision mixing, this can be achieved with a single person acting as both voice and controller.