General term for companies or organisations that own TV stations. In TAM research, it is used more broadly to include TV stations, TV airtime sales houses, programming organisations, trade associations or other parties belonging to the television sector.

Information sent by a server to a web browser and sent back by the browser unchanged each time it accesses the server. The only modification is that the cookies can store information about the user’s navigation of the Web site. Originally developed in order to assist shopping basket applications, cookies can serve in a number of contexts to authent [..]

Commonly used abbreviation for Household or Home, the two terms being equivalent.

Web site on which Internet users make regular entries. Most blogs are based around a particular theme, with readers encouraged to add comments. Blogs typically contain a number of pages of related topics, along with links to other blogs and web sites. Forms include text, video (vblog), photographs (photoblog), or audio (podcasting). Authors of blog [..]

Any wired or wireless transmission pathway with high bandwidth capacity. Term is widely used to denote systems that are able to relay large numbers of video channels and other electronic services, including Internet access, and provide return pathways that permit subscribers two-way communications and interactivity.

In television, term refers to the process of transforming signals that requires specific decryption/decoding equipment to display them on the TV screen. Many domestic satellite channels, whether subscription or free-to-air, employ encryption for reasons of copyright. Pay-TV services employ additional conditional access technologies in order to rest [..]