This is what Lucy and Ricky were contracted to do in every episode of "I Love Lucy."
What is smoke Phillip Morris cigarettes?
100
In this year, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, inspiring 600 million people to watch television at the same time.
What is 1969?
100
This show was one of the first to feature a "blended family."
What is "The Brady Bunch?"
100
This network began in 1980 and was the first to broadcast news 24 hours a day.
What is CNN (Cable News Network)?
100
This term refers to the psychological and emotional distance between the viewer and the story's discourse.
What is aesthetic distance?
200
This tv series featured episodes devoted to understanding the military and America's involvement in the Korean War during the 1950's.
What is "The Big Picture?"
200
During this war, television reporting was virtually free and uncensored, bringing about large hostility toward the military and the government.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This show's test audience was allegedly too afraid to admit their true reaction to this show's controversial discourse about race, abortion, the Vietnam War, and other social issues.
What is "All in the Family?"
200
These famous words were spoken by Ronald Reagan in Berlin, and broadcast throughout the world, and are partially attributed to the fall of the Soviet Union.
What is "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
200
This term refers to the way in which important topic areas are presented in a story.
What is discourse?
300
Because of the baby boom, many television shows in the 1950's centered around what?
What are traditional families and/or children?
300
The Klingon characters in Star Trek were often thought to represent what?
The oppression of the Soviet Union
300
This show still holds the record for the highest viewing audience ever of a tv series finale.
What is "M*A*S*H"?
300
This cable network, which started in 1980, has call letters ESPN.
What is the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network?
300
This word means "many meanings," and refers to shows that feature a variety of discourse.
What is "polysemy?"
400
This variety show paved the way for today's talent shows, and popularized the music of Elvis Presley.
What is the Ed Sullivan show?
400
In 1967, this was the first major sporting event to be broadcast by two competing networks at the same time.
What is the 1967 Superbowl?
400
This network launched in 1978, and gave rise to a very specific audience for marketing commercials.
What is ESPN?
400
This sportscaster was fired in 1988 for his inflammatory racist remarks about black athletes.
Who is "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder?
400
This era was sparked by the rise of cable networks.
What is the "Post-network era?"
500
Similar to the way in which photography inspired film, this was the medium that inspired television.
What is radio?
500
This person is the reason Philo T. Farnsworth was able to prove he invented television before Vladimir Zworykin. (exact name not necessary)
Who is Farnsworth's high school science teacher?
(Justin Tolman)
500
This organization was formed by the US government in 1934 to specifically regulate the airwaves and provide legal licenses to television stations.
What is the FCC? (Federal Communication Commission)
500
This law required news broadcasts to allow equal time for political candidates, and was abolished in the 1980's.
What is the Fairness Doctrine?
500
This was the first and last message sent by Morse code.