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Basic cable - ANS-the selection of channels included in the standard, least expensive
subscription offered by a cable television service.
Cable networks - ANS-a television network available via cable television. ... Examples
of cable/satellite channels/cable networks available in many countries are HBO, MTV,
Cartoon Network, E!, Eurosport and CNN International. The abbreviation CATV is often
used for cable television.
CATV - ANS-CATV (originally "community antenna television," now often "community
access television") is more commonly known as "cable TV." In addition to bringing
television programs to those millions of people throughout the world who are connected
to a community antenna, cable TV is an increasingly popular way to interact with the
World Wide Web and other new forms of multimedia information and entertainment
services.
Chimamanda Adichi ("Single story") - ANS-In 2009 the Nigerian writer Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie gave a fabulous TED talk called "The Danger of a Single Story." It was
about what happens when complex human beings and situations are reduced to a
single narrative: when Africans, for example, are treated solely as pitiable poor, starving
victims with flies on their faces.
Her point was that each individual life contains a heterogeneous compilation of stories.
If you reduce people to one, you're taking away their humanity.
David Sarnoff - ANS-He ruled over an ever-growing telecommunications and media
empire that included both RCA and NBC, and became one of the largest companies in
the world. Named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945
Sarnoff is credited with Sarnoff's law, which states that the value of a broadcast network
is proportional to the number of viewers.
Edward R. Murrow - ANS-He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts
for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) during World War II,
which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he
assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow
Boys.
Basic cable - ANS-the selection of channels included in the standard, least expensive
subscription offered by a cable television service.
Cable networks - ANS-a television network available via cable television. ... Examples
of cable/satellite channels/cable networks available in many countries are HBO, MTV,
Cartoon Network, E!, Eurosport and CNN International. The abbreviation CATV is often
used for cable television.
CATV - ANS-CATV (originally "community antenna television," now often "community
access television") is more commonly known as "cable TV." In addition to bringing
television programs to those millions of people throughout the world who are connected
to a community antenna, cable TV is an increasingly popular way to interact with the
World Wide Web and other new forms of multimedia information and entertainment
services.
Chimamanda Adichi ("Single story") - ANS-In 2009 the Nigerian writer Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie gave a fabulous TED talk called "The Danger of a Single Story." It was
about what happens when complex human beings and situations are reduced to a
single narrative: when Africans, for example, are treated solely as pitiable poor, starving
victims with flies on their faces.
Her point was that each individual life contains a heterogeneous compilation of stories.
If you reduce people to one, you're taking away their humanity.
David Sarnoff - ANS-He ruled over an ever-growing telecommunications and media
empire that included both RCA and NBC, and became one of the largest companies in
the world. Named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945
Sarnoff is credited with Sarnoff's law, which states that the value of a broadcast network
is proportional to the number of viewers.
Edward R. Murrow - ANS-He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts
for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) during World War II,
which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he
assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow
Boys.
