Advertising, broadly defined as messages primarily intended to persuade audience members to purchase particular goods and services, is an essential element of any commercial broadcast media ...

Commercial TV is nearing the bottom of a financial decline much like the one faced by newspapers 20 years ago. That will have consequences for what appears on our screens.

FURTHER to the article by Denis Wolinski of the ITC (Belfast Telegraph, June 26) it is worth emphasising how important it is that as many contributions as possible are made to the review of public ...

This first commercial radio broadcast announced the live results of the 1920 Presidential election, contested between Republican Warren G. Harding and Democrat James M. Cox, both of Ohio.

For decades, commercial broadcasting made its owners rich. Advertisers flocked to the networks – there just weren’t any other ways to reach so many viewers. At the same time, the government ...