The Indonesia Policy on Television Broadcasting: A Politics and Economics Perspective

All around the world, the TV broadcasting business has had an enormous impact on the social, political and economic fields. Therefore, in general, most of the countries regulate TV business well to produce an optimal impact on the nation. In Indonesia, the TV broadcasting business is growing very significantly. After implementing Broadcasting Act number 32 of 2002, the number of TV broadcasting companies increased to 1,251 compared to before 2002, which only had 11 channels, and were dominated by the private TV stations. However, the economic contribution of the TV broadcasting business in Indonesia is still small. Even in 2017, the number of TV companies decreased by 14.23% to 1,073. This situation raises a serious question: how exactly does Indonesian government policy regulate the TV industry? This article is the result of qualitative research that uses interviews and document analysis as a method of collecting data. The results showed that the TV broadcasting industry in Indonesia can not develop properly because the government do not apply fair rules to the private TV industry. Political interests still color the formulation of rules in which the government and big TV broadcasting companies apply the symbiotic mutualism policy to protect each other's interests

Emittance Quality of Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (TDMB)

Television terrestrial broadcasting technology, even fix or mobile have a rapid development along with the development of digital technology. Many countries decided to move from analog TV broadcasting to digital TV broadcasting. Sultan Agung Islamic University (UNISSULA), one of the private university in Central Java had begun to develop the Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (TDMB), as a research to support the migration from analog TV broadcasting to digital TV broadcasting. Because of that goal, must be observed the range of the scope by testing the TDMB Transmitter in UNISSULA. The tool of the test is drive test measurements by Purposive Random Sampling on the three research area, there are, the main road in Semarang, eastern part of the transmitter, Southern part of the transmitter. The Measurement is limited to strength and quality signal

Analysis of economics of a TV broadcasting satellite for additional nationwide TV programs

The influence of a TV broadcasting satellite, transmitting four additional TV networks was analyzed. It is assumed that the cost of the satellite systems will be financed by the cable TV system operators. The additional TV programs increase income by attracting additional subscribers. Two economic models were established: (1) each local network is regarded as an independent economic unit with individual fees (cost price model) and (2) all networks are part of one public cable TV company with uniform fees (uniform price model). Assumptions are made for penetration as a function of subscription rates. Main results of the study are: the installation of a TV broadcasting satellite improves the economics of CTV-networks in both models; the overall coverage achievable by the uniform price model is significantly higher than that achievable by the cost price model

Distributed MIMO coding scheme with low decoding complexity for future mobile TV broadcasting

A novel distributed space-time block code (STBC) for the next generation mobile TV broadcasting is proposed. The new code provides efficient performance within a wide range of power imbalance showing strong adaptivity to the single frequency network (SFN) broadcasting deployments. The new code outperforms existing STBCs with equivalent decoding complexity and approaches those with much higher complexities

Model Media Pembelajaran Melalui Tayangan Televisi Dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan, Sikap Dan Perilaku Anak-anak Pedesaan Di Sulawesi Selatan

The aims of the research are to analyze (1) the influence of TV broadcasting in increasing knowledge, attitude, and behavior of village children to explain the reasons why children consistently watch TV. (2) To formulate the models of watching TV broadcasting to increase knowledge, attitude, and behavior, as well as learning performance of the children. The research was conducted in three regencies, Maros, Pagkep, and Barru, and one city Pare-pare. The research approach was qualitative, to obtain whole description of research informers to formulate the research focus on learning media model through TV broadcasting in increasing the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of village children in South Sulawesi. The results of the research indicated that in increasing knowledge, some children were able to describe program they watched such as “si Bolang”. Their attitude of watching TV program was very responsive and enthusiastic, and even suggest for an extension of some sitetrons they consider good. Observed behavior of children are imitation of some football player styles, speaking accent, and assessories worn by female children imitating their idols. Reasons motivating children watching favourite TV broadcasting are besides intertaining, the programs are interresting and directly related to children\u27s world, so that TV watches become their routine program. The model identified in the research was a simple linear model, meanwhile the recommended model is similar to the model observed before, with linear characteristics and additional model of relatives accompanying their children watch TV

Script for Feature Theater Program

Script for Feature Theater, one of the first programs on the first day of WBAY-TV broadcasting on March 17, 1953

Temporal video transcoding from H.264/AVC-to-SVC for digital TV broadcasting

Mobile digital TV environments demand flexible video compression like scalable video coding (SVC) because of varying bandwidths and devices. Since existing infrastructures highly rely on H.264/AVC video compression, network providers could adapt the current H.264/AVC encoded video to SVC. This adaptation needs to be done efficiently to reduce processing power and operational cost. This paper proposes two techniques to convert an H.264/AVC bitstream in Baseline (P-pictures based) and Main Profile (B-pictures based) without scalability to a scalable bitstream with temporal scalability as part of a framework for low-complexity video adaptation for digital TV broadcasting. Our approaches are based on accelerating the interprediction, focusing on reducing the coding complexity of mode decision and motion estimation tasks of the encoder stage by using information available after the H. 264/AVC decoding stage. The results show that when our techniques are applied, the complexity is reduced by 98 % while maintaining coding efficiency

Comparison of Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms for FM-TV Broadcasting Antenna Array Null Filling

Broadcasting antenna array null filling is a very challenging problem for antenna design optimization. This paper compares five antenna design optimization algorithms (Differential Evolution, Particle Swarm, Taguchi, Invasive Weed, Adaptive Invasive Weed) as solutions to the antenna array null filling problem. The algorithms compared are evolutionary algorithms which use mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reproduction, mutation, recombination, and selection. The focus of the comparison is given to the algorithm with the best results, nevertheless, it becomes obvious that the algorithm which produces the best fitness (Invasive Weed Optimization) requires very substantial computational resources due to its random search nature

Outdoor Radiofrequency Radiation Levels in the West Bank-Palestine

This work presents the results of exposure levels to radio frequency (RF) emission from different sources in the environment of the West Bank—Palestine. These RF emitters include FM and TV broadcasting stations and mobile phone base stations. Power densities were measured at 65 locations distributed over the West Bank area. These locations include mainly centres of the major cities. Also a 24 h activity level was investigated for a mobile phone base station to determine the maximum activity level for this kind of RF emitters. All measurements were conducted at a height of 1.7 m above ground level using hand held Narda SRM 3000 spectrum analyzer with isotropic antenna capable of collecting RF signals in the frequency band from 75 MHz to 3 GHz. The average value of power density resulted from FM radio broadcasting in all investigated locations was 0.148 mW cm22, from TV broadcasting was 0.007 mW cm22 and from mobile phone base station was 0.089 mW cm22. The maximum total exposure evaluated at any location was 3.86 mW cm22. The corresponding exposure quotient calculated for this site was 0.02. This value is well below unity indicating compliance with the International Commission on non-ionising Radiation protection guidelines. Contributions from all relevant RF sources to the total exposure were evaluated and found to be ∼62 % from FM radio, 3 % for TV broadcasting and 35 % from mobile phone base stations. The average total exposure from all investigated RF sources was 0.37 mW cm22