PART II S4C was launched on November 1, 1982 – the night before Channel 4’s launch – and Euryn Ogwen, as head of programmes was responsible for constructing the new channel’s first hour. I was ten years old, and watching the first hour in the office of my father’s television company, Screen ’82, in Aberystwyth.
19 July – 6 August 2021, Online; hosted by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline?
Space and place are crucial categories of analysis when looking at our societies and their functioning, as noted by Michel Foucault who saw a deep connection between power, social order, and space.
PART I In this first section Euryn Ogwen discusses the beginnings of S4C, and the specific meaning and genealogy of the logo, taking us up to the very first second of the new channel, Sianel Pedwar Cymru… Dafydd Sills-Jones: Ready? Euryn Ogwen Williams: Ready.
Oooohhh… BBC One’s Line of Duty (2012-2021 maybe sort of) was a bit good wasn’t it? Wasn’t that captivating television? In fact, I may have mentioned that before. Apologies. Sorry.
Preliminary title: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in the Nordics: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multi-Platform Era Editors: Pia Majbritt Jensen, associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Novrup Redvall, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Christa Lykke Christensen, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. — John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (207) The spy is the quintessential protagonist for our digital globalist era. A secret agent works undercover, slips in and out of various aliases, while piecing together bits of information that sometimes lead to a deeper understanding of what’s going on.
Why is there so little TV scholarship about TV and sport? Compared to the reams about Netflix, there’s hardly a decent book to be found anywhere, and nothing it seems after Garry Whannel’s Fields in vision : Television sport and cultural transformation of 2005, and Toby Miller, Geoffrey A. Lawrence, Jim McKay, and David Rowe’s Globalization and sport : Playing the world from 2000.
A conference hosted by Journalism@Newcastle and Ethical Space, the International Journal of Communication Ethics. 23 June 2022 – Deadline for abstracts 29 October 2021 True crime has a long and popular history in journalism, literature, drama, radio, film and television – and now the podcast.
Sir Humphrey Burton, 90 in March and now publishing his long-awaited autobiography In My Own Time, is that rare beast: a television executive liked by programme-makers. Twice the Head of BBC TV’s Music &
