Television Industries Flashcards
“The Queen’s 1957 Christmas Broadcast”
First time broadcast is televised
Talks about all important things of that year
The way she is presenting herself
Wants to bring people in and the set up is homely
Able to talk to people directly from their homes
Talks about Ghana and Canada about adding them to the brotherhood (empire)
She is this mother figure of the commonwealth through tv
She uses TV to create an imagined community
Media imperialism
The idea that media is used to control access to information and influence cultures
Ex. Fair On TV in Senegal
French colony
Promotion of European values at the beginning of tv in Senegal
It was subtle
TV becomes nationalized about education
TV further divides the country since only certain people have access to TV
Many people are left behind
Allen Dumont
1956, starts selling the first TVs in the US (commercially)
Expensive (same price as a car) but not enough channels to watch
Dumont network
Founded in 1940 by Allen DuMont
TV network (fourth) competitor of NBC, CBS
“theater television”
Hollywood viewing television as a threat to cinema
Try to make tv theater (didn’t work due to the whole excitement of TV of it is having it in your home)
Cinerama
Wide-curved screen
Used three cameras, three projections
Wider peripheral vision screen
Felt immersed in the movie
Felt like a ride
But couldn’t change all theaters
Replaced by anamorphic lenses
Aspect ratios
The ratio of an image’s width to its height
1:33:1 at the beginning
Movies became wider
Anamorphic
Lenses that are used to capture a wider horizontal angle of view than a spherical lens.
This creates a widescreen presentation with a wider width and narrower height.
The result is a cinematic look with a shallower depth-of-field.
Replaced cinerama
Blockbusters
Major studios owned theaters
Had films every week, made films especially for their audience
They stopped, making a few films a year for a major broad audience
High concept summarized in one sentence
Ex. Jaws
Must see TV
An American advertising slogan that was used by NBC to brand its primetime blocks during the 1990s, and most often applied to the networks’s Thursday night lineup, which features some of its most popular sitcoms and drama series of the period
The Magical World of Disney
Disney’s very first studio creating TV
Was considered a small studio in the past
Walt Disney became a figurehead - seen as only one
Warner Bros Presents
Create spinoffs
Movies turn to TV shows
“Poverty row”
Smaller studios that worked in TV, that would be pushed aside by the big studios when they start to see the value of TV
FCC Ownership restrictions
Restrictions with owning radio and others media (TV stations)
Limit the number of stations an entity can own in a given market
Paramount Decision
In 1948, the Government found it fishy that studios would sell movies to their theaters
Studios had to sell their theaters, which made them angry since they knew it worked, made money from the weekly tickets
But in the end, they worked in their favor, it was expensive for the studios to maintain the building, and they had to have a movie every week in the theater.
Lead to rise in blockbusters and not need to have a movie every week at the theater
Studio Libraries
Libraries of content
Old movies have new life with TV
Writers created residuals so that they get money when movies are shown on TV
Ted Turner
Founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel
Screen Actors Guild
A labor union for actors
In 1960, went on strike against the Hollywood film and television production for six weeks
Ronald Reagan
Head of the Screen Actors Guild and led the strike in 1960
Was able to get residuals for actors for their films and them being played on TV
Residuals
Payments made to people who work on TV shows when their work is reused
FinSyn
1970-1993
Studios become the main source for primetime TV
Prohibited networks from owning or sharing in the profits of programs they aired
Prohibited networks from creating in-house syndication arms
Concerned that the networks were using their dominance to exercise monopoly power
Bath Party
It was an Iraqi political party
The TV industry was private then nationalized by the Bath Party
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003.
Uday Hussein
Was an Iraqi politician, military commander and businessman, and the elder son of Saddam Hussein.
