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School Tv: The News Show Pledge
How to spice up the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of your newscast. SchoolTV gives an in depth look at ways to give the Pledge more meaning visually.
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Vanderbilt University: Television News Archive
This archive from Vanderbilt University contains an "extensive and complete" collection of television news broadcasts. "The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Newton N. Minow: "Television and the Public Interest"
This is the text and audio of the speech "Television and the Public Interest" by Newton N. Minow, from the Federal Communications Commission, delivered on May 9, 1961, at National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC.
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Byu Broadcasting: Farnsworth Society: Farnsworth Story
The story of Philo T. Farnsworth, who at age twenty one developed the first electronic television, is presented by Brigham Young University where Farnsworth was a former student.
CNN
Cnn: You Be the Producer
This is a great learning tool for producing and writing for television news. You have the opportuntity to judge stories and see if they would make it to the newscast.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your students using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modern Muslim Women
This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.