SIT-COMS
This TV series showed the first interracial married couple on American network television.
What is The Jeffersons?
These national networks were known as The Big Three.
What are ABC, NBC, and CBS?
"WE WERE ON A BREAK!"
What is Friends?
The chief agency overseeing and regulating television.
What is The FCC?
This is the title of the textbook used in this course.
What is Television and American Culture?
An animated version of The Honeymooners.
What is The Flintstones?
This show established long-standing sit-com production techniques.
What is I Love Lucy?
"Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica."
What is The Office?
The time period between 6AM and 10PM, when it is assumed children are watching television.
What is The Safe Harbor rule?
This author wrote the textbook for this course
Who is Mittell?
Minneapolis boasts a statue of this beloved television character.
Who is Mary Richards?
TV shows are really just a lure for this.
What is delivering audiences to advertisers?
"I am the dragon's daughter, and I swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming."
What is Game of Thrones?
This guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S. Constitution.
What is The First Amendment?
The most powerful and prevalent mass communication medium in America.
What is television?
What is The Alan Brady Show.
A regional station that carries programming from a network.
What is a network affiliate?
"Pow! Right in the Kisser!"
What is The Honeymooners?
This department within the TV Network approves content prior to its airing.
What is standards and practices?
A TV show is a reflection of this.
What is its era? Would also accept "society" or "its time."
Billy Crystal played a cross-dressing, gay character on this sit-com.
What is Soap?
The main source of revenue for broadcast networks.
What is advertising?
"Is that your final answer?"
What is Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
TV-Y, TV-14, and TV-M.
What is are Parental Rating Guidelines?
Television broadcasting occurs on these two frequencies.
What are UHF and VHF.