Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959 Architect, Author, Educator

Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR

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TV is a reflection of culture or social reality like music, it is a ‘social ritual’ in which we all share

It is produced for a mass audience which makes it part of ‘popular culture’

It transmits cultural values or dominant ideology

It is capable of satisfying the cultural needs of a diverse group of viewers

TV is an ‘agent’ of socialisation - we construct our identities based on different representations and role models

1. Breaking Bad 2. Game of Thrones 3. The Wire 4. Sherlock 5. Sopranos 6. Arrested Development 7. Firefly 8. Dexter 9. Avatar: The Last Airbender 10. The Simpsons 11. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 12. Rome 13. Freaks and Geeks 14. Twin Peaks 15. Twilight Zone 16. Death Note 17. Oz 18. Seinfeld 19. Leyla ile Mecnun 20. House M.D.

21. House of Cards 22. Batman: The Animated Series 23. Deadwood 24. Friends 25. South Park 26. Fawlty Towers 27. Cowboy Bebop 28. Suits 29. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 30. Six Feet Under 31. Archer 32. Downton Abbey 33. The Office 34. Doctor Who 35. Battlestar Galactica 36. Boardwalk Empire 37. The Walking Dead 38. The X-Files 39. Curb Your Enthusiasm 40. Justified

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1. The Sopranos 2. Seinfeld 3. The Twilight Zone 4. All in the Family 5. M*A*S*H 6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7. Mad Men 8. Cheers 9. The Wire 10. The West Wing 11. The Simpsons 12. I Love Lucy 13. Breaking Bad 14. The Dick Van Dyke Show 15. Hill Street Blues

16. Arrested Development 17. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 18. Six Feet Under 19. Taxi 20. The Larry Sanders Show 21. 30 Rock 22. Friday Night Lights 23. Frasier 24. Friends 25. Saturday Night Live 26. The X-Files 27. Lost 28. ER 29. The Cosby Show 30. Curb Your Enthusiasm

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FCC Chair Newton Minow called television “a vast wasteland” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dGRgLfaGwo

Flipping through programs to find something to watch without using a television guide

Move from Radio to TV

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The high school student who invented a practical form of television was Philo Farnsworth.

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The cartoon character Felix the Cat was first featured during an early television experiment.

TV booms in the 1950s Many of the early programs steal radio shows and audiences.

The founder of reality programming on television is considered to be Allen Funt.

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$100,000 / Roll of Tape = $300 Videotape was demonstrated in 1956 by Charles Ginsburg and first popularly used for news shows.

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A Dramatic Leap In 1948, only 1 percent of American households had a TV set.

By the early 1960s, more than 90 percent of all homes had a TV.

First televised debates

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No physical distribution

Audio/Visual medium for documentary information (news)

Provides information to a large audience

NBC (200) ABC (200) CBS (200) PBS (200) 1968 Fox (200) 1987 CW (2006) (UPN and WB merge)

UPN (United Paramount Network/Viacom) (150) 1995 WB (Warner Brothers/Time Warner) (150) 1995

PAX (70) 1999

The largest television monitor in the world can be found in the Dallas Cowboys stadium.

The television technology that was as monumental as the switch from black and white to color is HDTV.

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MTV’s The Real World: New York was the first reality-based series to appeal to a large audience.

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One of the chief creators of “Survivor” is television producer Mark Burnett.

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http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/

http://visual.ly/how-tv-changing-our-world

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Founded in 1997, the Television Academy Foundation’s Archive of American Television has conducted over 750 oral history interviews with the legends of television.

These interviews chronicle the birth and growth of American TV History as it evolves, and make the interviews available worldwide.

The Archive continues to produce new interviews every year.

The collection covers a variety of professions, genres, and topics in electronic media history.

The interviews are done in a life-history format, starting with the interviewees' early years and influences.

The interview then moves into their major television work, and concludes with the interviewee's thoughts about the craft, as well as advice to aspiring professionals.

The interviews are presented uncut and unscripted.

http://www.emmytvlegends.org/

Television is the main storytelling medium of our time.

Big Three networks have lost more than 50% of audience since 1980s.

How can TV maintain its cultural relevance?

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3D TV

We Are All Tv Producers (Ustream & Stickam) Ustream.Tv And The 2010 Hawaiian Tsunami

A communications technology changing the way persons view television programs is web.

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In what ways does TV affect your life?

How often do you watch?

For how long?

Does television serve the same function in our lives as it did in the past?

Do we watch TV in the same way as we used to 20 years ago?

Does it satisfy our social needs?

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