TV
About _______ television stations operate in the United States
1,700
Commercial television exists primarily as an _________
advertising medium
CBS launches ________ , a situation comedy
I Love Lucy
The word ____ first appeared in the June 1907
television
1963: ________ begins broadcasting
Public television
NBC television’s commercial - first was at the ____ World’s Fair in New York City.
1939
In 1943, ____, the third major network, grew out of NBC’s old Blue network
ABC
Patents the Nipkow disk
Paul Nipkow
_____ starts Cable News Network
Ted Turner
By 1945,___ television stations were on the air in the United States
10
Audience: Half the U.S. population, plus international viewers
2015 Super Bowl
_________ sends the first transatlantic satellite broadcast
Telstar I
The months when TV ratings services gather their most important ratings—February, May and November.
Sweeps
Networks re-examined the relationship between advertisers and programs and eventually turned to other sources, such as independent producers, for programming.
Result
The word television first appears in?
Scientific American magazine.
______ – First television president. Advanced his agenda, including live televised news conferences
John F. Kennedy
A TV program that establishes a regular cast of characters typically in a home or work situation
Situation Comedy
A political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President _______
Richard Nixon
Manages the programs the station creates in-house and also produces local commercials.
Production
The ____ began liberalizing rules for commercial announcements on public television in 1981
FCC
The TV time period from 7 to 11 p.m. when more people watch TV than at any other time.
Prime Time
Minow said that they would find a ____
vast wasteland
The percentage of the total number of households with TV sets tuned to a particular program. A TV program’s rating determines how much a network or station can charge for an ad.
Rating
____ became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in 1961.
Newton Minow
2012: _____ offers original programming via video streaming
Netflix