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  • Local Content Rules In Broadcasting

    Local content rules in broadcasting in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: such rules generally require radio and television broadcasters to use at least defined minimum amounts of locally produced materials during certain time slots. The definition […]

  • Control

    Exercise or to have the right to exercise a directing or governing influence over a thing. The power of authority to manage, direct, superintend, restrict, regulate, govern, administer or oversee.

  • Control

    Exercise or to have the right to exercise a directing or governing influence over a thing. The power of authority to manage, direct, superintend, restrict, regulate, govern, administer or oversee.

  • Effect

    Effect

    The effect of a cause is anything which would not have happened but for that cause; and it is none the less an effect of such a cause because it has been developed by something supervening. To do; to make; to bring to pass or about; to execute; to enforce; to accomplish.

  • Add-on clause

    Add-on clause

    A provision originating in corporate mortgage forms but later extended to consumer financing instruments, pursuant to which all property from time to time procured from the same seller becomes security for payment of the entire aggregate debt until it is fully paid off. Hence, e.g., if a person […]

  • Pbs

    Etimology of Pbs (You may find PBS at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). abbreviation of Public Broadcasting Service, 1970, America English. It succeeded National Educational Television (NET).

  • Trivia

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Trivia (You may find trivia at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). trivialities, bits of information of little consequence, by 1932, from the title of a popular book by U.S.-born British aphorist Logan Pearsall Smith […]

  • Mass Media

    Definition of Mass Media The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Mass Media: Sociologically speaking in modern times the ‘community’ has been replaced by a ‘mass’, a set of autonomous and disconnected individuals, with little sense of […]

  • Electronic Media

    Electronic Media in Voting Law Definition of Electronic Media in the context of the United States election law: Means of communication, dissemination and publication of information which differ from the printed press. Information is stored, transmitted and published using technology. Chief […]

  • Audience Studies

    Definition of Audience Studies The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Audience Studies: Audience is defined as an individual’s or a group of persons’ cerebral and/or sensory and/or tactile intake/reception and/or perception of a culture product […]

  • Medium is the Message

    Definition of Medium is the Message The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Medium is the Message: A central idea of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) who demonstrated that each media (print, speech, television) is connected with a […]

  • Medium is the Message

    Definition of Medium is the Message The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Medium is the Message: A central idea of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) who demonstrated that each media (print, speech, television) is connected with a […]

  • Succession

    Something conferred upon a person upon the death of an ancestor , by reason of a past or present disposition , or by devolution of law. Also, the act or right of legal or official investment with a predecessor ‘s office , dignity , possession or function. In relation […]

  • Succession

    Something conferred upon a person upon the death of an ancestor , by reason of a past or present disposition , or by devolution of law. Also, the act or right of legal or official investment with a predecessor ‘s office , dignity , possession or function. In relation […]

  • Goods Producing Economy

    Definition of Goods Producing Economy The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Goods Producing Economy: An economy whose central method of capital accumulation is the manufacture of goods for consumers (televisions), for public consumption (trains) or for […]