| Channel 4’s Kevin Lygo
Back in 1982, long before British viewers even knew what a remote control was, Channel 4 hit the British TV scene with a fresh, sometimes irreverent, often innovative alternative to the more traditional program offerings of the BBC and ITV. As Channel 4 celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, its director of television, Kevin Lygo, looks back at the channels major accomplishments and the challenges it faces in the future. TV EUROPE: What impact has Channel 4 left on the television landscape in the U.K.? LYGO: We initiated an independent production sector. Before Channel 4 started, there really werent any independent producers in the U.K., and 25 years on you look at the U.K. and its independent production sector is incredibly strong. Today across the world you see British formats.
The Radio Stream Transcoding Bible
With the advent of cheap and/or unlimited data plans, good coverage and the increasing presence of Internet radio stations, the importance of listening to streaming radio stations have become much bigger than ever. In this Bible, I mostly elaborate on practices that may make the sound quality much better using the same bandwidth, and/or may save you tens or hundreds of bucks a month by heavily reducing data usage, while providing the same (or even better!) sound quality should you not be able to access any unlimited data plan (Canada with its ridiculous data rates comes into mind), and/or may heavily increase your battery life by letting you falling back to the much more battery-friendly 2.(7)5G Internet access technologies instead of the power-hungry 3(.5)G ones, and/or in cases, may even let you listen to some radio stations you would never have thought of because of the network / operating system restrictions, and/or makes the central administration of your radio station favorites much easier no need to switch between different radio programs if theres a difference between the protocols / formats they use.
32 GB iPod Touch: Best in Class, If Not Value
The new 32 GB iPod touch lets you carry around a whole lot of music and movies, but it's more expensive than many other comparable devices out there. You're paying more, of course, for the ability to access the Internet via WiFi, and to do so via a touch interface. Oh, and you're also paying a premium for that cute Apple logo on the back. So is it worth it? Vendor White Papers Featured ListingsECT News Network's directory of e-business, IT and CRM white papers provides resources you need to make informed purchasing decisions. Browse Listings. .
Misadventures in Atlanta
She's very intelligent, works during the day and goes to school pursuing a degree in accounting. I have the utmost respect and admiration for her and what she's now doing for herself and her children. I guess all I'm saying is that while I understand how a woman such as you described might cause you to raise an eyebrow or two, I wouldn't completely write her off without considering the person as a whole. .
RWD Apprenticeship
Working with the College of North East London and various partners, RWD Magazine is to open up 40 training places for people who have ambitions to work in the media. You will learn new skills by fulfilling real media briefs for the magazine, including filming and editing video material for our own website and for MySpace.
The training will be fast moving and demanding - we only want very motivated people with a passion for media. To apply for this opportunity you need to be unemployed and over 19. For funding reasons preference will be given to people from Haringey and Enfield, and especially those from the Tottenham area, although anyone may apply.
To book an interview or to learn more, call 020 8442 3055 and ask for The RWD Media Course'
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MOTU reveals new products and new features in Digital Performer 6
MOTU offered NAMM a sneak preview of its soon to ship Digital Performer 6 audio sequencer software and introduced its powerful virtual instrument, Electric Keys, at the show. Digital Performer 6 is a major upgrade to MOTU's flagship audio sequencer software. New features include a complete user interface redesign, XML file interchange with Final Cut Pro, other industry-leading film scoring enhancements, track comping, support for interleaved broadcast WAVE audio files, enhanced support for operation as a software front end for Pro Tools HD systems, pre-rendering of virtual instruments, better support for third-party Audio Unit (AU) plug-ins, the ability to "bounce and burn" directly to an audio CD and many other productivity enhancements. .
Of Sacred and Secular
Thanks for sharing your perspective, Thomas. Permalink | Comments (2) | Post your comment CT's view of Pew's religious landscape By Eileen Flynn | Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 12:59 PM Another take on the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum. Here's an analysis from Christianity Today's Elesha Coffman who writes: The survey's topline summary describes this scene as "both very diverse and extremely fluid," which is an apt assessment as long as one remembers that the subject examined is a landscape and not, say, a moving crowd in an airport. For all of the often quite illuminating attention they get, non-Christian religions still constitute only about 5 percent of the American population. All religious groups are gaining and losing members in a very competitive environment, but the overall percentages remain fairly stable year to year and even decade to decade.
Peter Carey an Australian in New York
You can crash and burn after a year's work. I'm writing a book now, and it's scary still because even though I've been through stages of being immensely pleased with it, I also, at times, don't know what I'm doing." Despite the limited time the narrative spends there, His Illegal Self offers us the most substantial view yet of Carey's adopted city. The book opens in New York and, for the first time, Carey has written a novel that includes American main characters. Most surprisingly, his narrator has a finite knowledge of Australia. Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, His Illegal Self explores life in privileged Manhattan and in subversive, underground America. It also takes in Australia at a time, Carey writes, when "Queensland was a police state run by men who never finished high school".
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