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| Issue No. 4 Spring 2000 |
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No. 4, Spring 2000 In This Issue: |
| ARTICLES |
| Looking
Ahead at Emerging Markets: Growth Prospects for Satellite Operators and Service
Providers by TBS Contributing Editor Jacob Arback |
| Indian
Television Turning to Globalization by TBS Contributing Editor Janet Fine |
| View
from Dubai: The Digital Future by TBS Contributing Editor Chris Forrester |
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from Mumbai: Murdoch and Turner on the Move by TBS Contributing Editor Janet Fine |
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Special Section: Civil Society in the Arab World: The Role of Transnational Broadcasting
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| INTERVIEWS |
| Dolores Martos, Vice President for Latin American Sales, New Skies Satellites |
| Susan Irwin, Founder and President of Irwin Communications, Inc. |
| SYMPOSIUM |
| A discussion conducted online, Feb. 16, 2000, on broadcasting in Latin America, with Mary Beadle, Joseph Straubhaar, Gaetan Tremblay, and Mauro Porto |
| REPORTS |
| Beating Around the Middle East Bush on Morningside Heights A report on “Opening the Channels: Columbia Forum on Television and Society in the Middle East,” Columbia University, February 19-23, 2000 |
| An Afternoon with Einstein: extracts from a discussion held with Gulf DTH/Showtime President and CEO Peter Einstein with mass communications students and faculty at the Adham Center for Television Journalism, the American University in Cairo, March 6, 2000 |
| DEPARTMENTS |
| In
the News The chairman of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union has announced the launch of a new private media channel to make its home in Egypt’s new Media Free Zone. But not all private investors are happy with the ERTU’s handling of privatization. Full story |
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the Editor Webcasting, interactive TV, m-commerce...everyone is talking about new technologies, and everyone is talking about convergence. This issue’s articles, interviews, and reports make clear TBS’s interest in the coming together of satellite, Internet, and wireless. The future of broadcasting is, inherently and thanks to convergence and digitalization, transnational. |
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Book Reviews Christine Brosius and Melissa Butcher, eds. (1999) Image Journeys: Audio-Visual Media and Cultural Change in India. Reviewed by TBS Review Editor Amos Owen Thomas Douglas A. Boyd (1999). Broadcasting in the Arab World: A Survey of the Electronic Media in the Middle East, Third Edition. Reviewed by TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin Internet Delivery Via Satellite (1999) A report by Irwin Communications, Inc. TBS staff review |
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