The TV Industry
In the network era, the word for local TV stations (that carry programming from one of the big, centralized networks).
What are affiliates?
Similar to genre, this cultural technology has a strong presence in reality TV shows around the world.
What is the format?
This radio broadcast faked a news broadcast of a Martian invasion in 1938.
What is War of the Worlds?
1950s sitcom featuring two parents and one child, but mom is always out trying to find a job.
What is I Love Lucy?
Katz writes that Television has has evolved along two axes—content-wise from “same” to
“differentiated,” and contact-wise, from "this" to "this" (2 words).
What is “together” to “alone”?
Television and radio have this one type of revenue source in common.
What is advertising?
Harindranath uses this phrase to describe TV programs that represent a global, urban, at times over-sexualized, highly Western-influenced form of modernity in India.
What is "aspirational commodity erotics"?
One of the following is a fake TV network: FOX, CBC, NBC, FBC.
What is FBC?
1960s show featuring a man and his "uncle", who comes from another planet.
What is My Favorite Martian?
These early 20th century European scholars held a general thesis that mass media “promoted conformity, reinforced status, and inhibited political
participation".
Who were the Frankfurt School?
One of these comes first, historically: OTT or OTA.
What is OTA?
A 1970s TV show that was an American remake of an earlier British sitcom.
What is Three's Company OR What is All in The Family?
Teresa Keller argues that this kind of programming (ranging from news magazines to talk shows) deliberately blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
What is "Trash TV"?
Thise pre-TV genre of fictional show often featured melodramatic portrayals of divorce, infidelity, and romance.
What is the soap opera?
Meyrowitz thinks that this feature of television advances feminism, and children's access to knowledge about their world.
What is TV's voyeurism (or "What is TV's capacity to let us see into other people's intimate worlds")?
Winseck: modern, hybrid-type digital media industries that earn revenue through memberships/subscriptions are called this model.
What is the club model?
Punathembekar: TV audience groups that transcend existing ethnic or political groupings in Indian society.
What are mobile publics?
Reality TV shows and journalism are both expected to do this.
What is depict reality faithfully? OR What is tell the truth about the world?
They were all yellow.
Who are The Simpsons?
For Raymond Williams, this is the two word descriptor for a society that is increasingly individualized and spatially mobile.
What is mobile privatization?
This historically dominant TV genre always resolves disequilibrium before the end of the episode.
What is the sitcom?
For Lowenstein, global media are characterized by this term which he uses to describe Murakami's art (and which underscores the idea of a global village that erases our identities).
What is "superflat"?
Back in 2004 when he was firing apprentices, he was in fact apprenticing himself for his gubernatorial reality show that began much later on - in 2016.
Who is Donald Trump?
The portrayal of families where the "mother figure" was absent was characteristic of which decade in American TV history?
Lowenstein: cute phrase describing how TV destroys us by bringing us together.
What is "the haunted house version of McLuhan's global village"?