TV Pioneers
This radio and TV personality is the host of American Idol.
Who is Ryan Seacrest?
Spanish-language soap operas popular in both Latin America and the United States.
What are telenovelas?
This is a time when studios controlled all levels of production and talent worked under exclusive contract to studios.
What is the studio era?
NBC, CBS, and ABC.
What are the original tv broadcast networks?
In 1922, he diagrams plans for television at the age 16.
Who is Filo T Farnsworth?
This media mogul started his empire by buying a local Atlanta TV station.
Who is Ted Turner?
Nearly 4 hours per day.
This landmark summer film began the blockbuster era?
What is Jaws?
A company that provides programs to local stations around the country.
What is a television network?
In 1939, when NBC began broadcasting, most viewers watched here.
What is bars and restaurants?
The first filmed sitcom. This historic show also had a Hispanic lead actor.
What is I Love Lucy?
This TV show won the 2020 Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Drama Series?
What is HBO's Succession?
This Korean thriller film won the Academy Award in 2020 for best picture.
What is Parasite?
A nonprofit broadcast network that provides a wide range of public service and educational programs. It is funded by government appropriations, private industry underwriting, and viewer support.
What are public access channels?
In the late 1970s, these became household appliances that changed the way we view content at home.
What are VCRs?
This TV producing genius brought us Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder.
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
This POP TV hit show features the displaced Rose family as they recover from losing their life of luxury.
What is Schitt's Creek?
Ruth E. Carter was the first black designer to win the Oscar for best costume design for her work on this film.
What is Black Panther?
In 2009, all television broadcasts in the United States moved from analog transmission to this.
What is digital transmissions?
In 2015, this educational kids show moved from PBS to HBO.
What is Sesame Street?
This versatile performer and her daughter dazzled us in the Super Bowl half time show, earning 103 million viewers?
Who is Jennifer Lopez?
This TV game show is currently the #1 rated syndicated program by Nielsen.
What is Family Feud?
This hashtag was a 2016 wakeup call that demanded more representation at the Academy Awards and in the media industry.
What is #oscarssowhite?
What is COVID-19?
This American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service and televises many proceedings of the United States federal government, as well as other public affairs programming.
What is C-SPAN?