Shielding children from sex and violence, avoiding commercials and finding extra time for other activities are among the key reasons Americans live without television, according to a new book by Marina Krcmar, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University.

CERN1 has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made available through Eurovision.

DrummerCafé.TV (DCTV), the latest entrée addition to the Drummer Café, has steadily grown to over 500 unique viewers per week since its inception in February of this year.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for May 19-25.

An agreement announced Tuesday between Sony Electronics and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) may mean the end of that ubiquitous TV appendage: the cable set-top box.

Sundance Digital, a part of Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) and an award-winning provider of high-performance television automation solutions, today announced that it has unveiled the new Sundance Digital® Delivery Management Engine (DDME) – a cost-effective application that provides broadcasters, local stations, cable channels and cable origination operations with a streamlined solution for file-based ingest of third party material.

Debut Slated for April 24 at 8 p.m.

ABC TV's Andrew Denton, Chris Lilley and Adam Hills will go up against past winners Rove McManus, Kate Ritchie and Lisa McCune for this year's Gold Logie for Australia's Most Popular Television Personality.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration reports that they have received requests from over one million American households for $40 government coupons since Tuesday. The coupons are to help the owners of analog sets pay for converter boxes.

Television can encourage awareness of political perspectives among Americans, but the incivility and close-up camera angles that characterize much of today’s “in your face” televised political debate also causes audiences to react more emotionally and think of opposing views as less legitimate.

Striking Hollywood writers have rejected a new contract offer from producers, the two sides say, three weeks into a dispute that has disrupted the film and television industry.

The Hollywood writers strike against major studios will cost at least $US21 million ($24 million) a day in television production spending alone and idle 10,000 workers if it lasts much longer, experts say.