Exam 2 Flashcards
(25 cards)
I Love Lucy
In 1955 I Love Lucy achieved a significant television first―it became the first television series to be broadcast as reruns.
Three-camera set-up
all three cameras will have either one focal point with three different angles or three different focal points.
Videotape
Videotape is magnetic tape that is used to record moving pictures and sounds to be shown on television.
Syndication
the act of selling something (such as a newspaper column or television series) for publication or broadcast to multiple newspapers, periodicals, websites, stations, etc.
See It Now
one of television’s earliest documentary series, remains the standard by which broadcast journalism is judged for its courage and commitment.
McCarthyism
The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.
Agenda setting
ability (of the news media) to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda.
Framing
the way news stories are constructed to evoke a particular interpretation or reaction from the audience.
Newton Minnow
He is famous for his speech referring to television as a “vast wasteland”
“Television is a vast wasteland”
The phrase “vast wasteland” was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer John Bartlow Martin. Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as research for a magazine piece, and concluded it was “a vast wasteland of junk”.
The rural purge
The “rural purge” of American television networks was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences
All in the Family
“All in the Family” is touted as the series that brought reality to prime-time TV entertainment.
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear is an American producer and screenwriter, who has produced, written, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear is known for many popular 1970s sitcoms, including the multi-award winning All in the Family as well as Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, and Good Times.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The series was hailed as the first modern woman’s sitcom.
“Seven Dirty Words”
Seven English-language curse words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” monologue.
George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time.
FCC v. Pacifica
a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission over indecent material as applied to broadcasting.
Indecency & obscenity
Indecent content portrays sexual or excretory organs or activities in a way that is patently offensive but does not meet the three-prong test for obscenity.
“Safe harbor”
the time period in a television schedule during which programs with adult content can air.
Roots
Critics and journalists lauded the series’ frank depiction of slavery, and the resulting (albeit difficult) conversations between black and white Americans about a previously taboo subject matter.
Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries.
“Must carry” rules
require cable systems to carry local broadcast television stations.
HBO, ESPN, MTV
first cable radio stations
Terrestrial broadcasting
broadcasting that enables the viewer to receive higher quality video and audio signals than conventional analog TV, with no ghost images and no noise.
