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more than just talk on the phone. Some popular media companies have more than one media outlet. Small newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations are being gobbled up and merged with a more popular media company. In some homes, you can’t find a newspaper, many people read the news online. The same content that people listen to on the TV and radio is available to read online and in the newspaper. This new phase of communication production and distribution is known as convergence. Convergence means the merger of people (writers, editors, producers, advertisers, etc), content (print,…

oversees administrative tasks and the financial department. John Switzer is a newly hired Production Coordinator. Who is responsible for making sure that everything runs smoothly during filming, by overseeing location bookings and arranging any necessary permissions and risk assessments. As well as, setting up and monitoring product standards and implementing the teleprompter. The product line of Quick Take Video to their customers is called rowing audience. By using a rowing audience format it…

Despite that the first television station in Chile was established in Valparaiso, a port city two hours distant from Santiago, the capital, broadcasting is a highly centralized industry and this feature has been consolidating since the early 1990s. “The transition initiated a period of major transformation, with the introduction of privately owned commercial broadcasting and cable television. The advent of these new outlets consolidated a U.S.-style commercial model, stimulated cross-media…

In the 1950s the Australian government approved the first national television service in Sydney called the ABC. The introduction of the television was gradual, starting in Sydney and Melbourne, then slowly reaching rural areas towards the end of the 50s decade. Televisions at this time often had built-in stands and screens that were soft at the corners. You operated them through the dials to change channels and were tuned through a wire aerial system. The 50s were an important era for…

The Public Broadcasting Service PBS, has existed since 1970, is not considered part of the big networks like CBS, CNN and FOX News. PBS operates with a much different distribution model compared to the major networks. Most uniquely, its station determine their own network rather than a traditional mode; of a network owning some of its stations and affiliating with additional stations owned by other broadcasters. PBS offers programming that expands the minds of children, and documentaries that…

were all about looking at the different effects of television on American culture and on the lives of everyday Americans through programming. In chapter 11, Mittell looks at television through a different perspective in order to get new insight into the effects of television on America and the American lifestyle. In order to understand Mittell’s approach to analyzing television in this chapter, it is important to look at the medium of television from a technological standpoint, independent of…

1) In 1961, Newton Minow (FCC Chairman) gave a speech to American broadcasters called “Television and the Public Interest” in which he laid out his vision for the American television industry. Briefly, he believed that television had a specific role and responsibility in society, one he felt that the television industry was currently falling short. In his speech, he proposed a bargain between all involved; the essential bargain in his vision would be agreement between the FCC, the television…

Diversity in Television The lack of diversity in modern day television is almost criminal. With television stations pretending to have racial diversity they run into the wall of using racial stereotypes for comedy to entertain the masses. The lack thereof racial diversity in modern television has led to many awful things such as; stations claiming to be racially diverse but just end up making fun of cultures with outdated stereotypes, also many holly wood block busters have little to none of the…

In America today, we see a lot of Television shows that blur or censor specific content, specifically nudity and foul language. In other countries and communities around the world censorship of the human body and language this would seem out of the norm. In Germany, television displays almost no censorship and nationally broadcasts frontal and back nudity without hesitation. Westernized thoughts and idealism of what is proper and acceptable behavior on broadcasted entertainment tends to be…

violence that happened worldwide. Furthermore, television and radios made a significant effect on the civil rights movement in the sense that they gave the people public awareness. This let people to become more aware about things that were happening around them. Even though television was a new invention in the 1950s and developed in the of the civil rights movement, it brought huge success to bringing people top stories. According to the news star, local television news did not only get…