Chicago Television

Author : Daniel Berger,Steve Jajkowski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0738577138

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Chicago Television by Daniel Berger,Steve Jajkowski Pdf

The history of television in Chicago begins with the birth of the medium and is defined by the city's pioneering stations. WBKB (now WLS-TV) was the principal innovator of the Chicago School of Television, an improvisational production style that combined small budgets, personable talent, and the creative use of scenery and props. WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) expanded the innovative concept to a wider audience via the NBC network. WGN-TV scored with sports and kids. Strong personalities drove the success of WBBM-TV. A noncommercial educational station, WTTW, and the city's first UHF station, WCIU, added diversity and ethnic programming. The airwaves in Chicago have been home to a wealth of talented performers and iconic programs that have made the city one of the country's greatest television towns. Chicago Television, featuring photographs from the archives of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) and the collections of local stations and historians, gives readers a front-row seat on a journey through the fi rst 50 years of Chicago television, 1940-1990. Founded in 1982 by broadcaster Bruce DuMont, the MBC Web site offers over 10,000 digital assets.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045429144

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Television Coverage of the Democratic National Convention Chicago, Illinois, 1968, Staff Report of the Special Subcommittee on Investigations ... 1969 by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Gary R. Edgerton,Peter C. Rollins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813181646

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Television Histories by Gary R. Edgerton,Peter C. Rollins Pdf

From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined—or ignored—by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Educational radio stations
ISBN : LOC:00183870683

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Educational Television and Radio Amendments of 1969 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Universal Television by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226466958

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Science on the Air by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette Pdf

Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and “Our Friend the Atom.” Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. But the exponential growth of listenership in the 1920s, from thousands to millions, and the networks’ recognition that each listener represented a potential consumer, turned science on the radio into an opportunity to entertain, not just educate. Science on the Air chronicles the efforts of science popularizers, from 1923 until the mid-1950s, as they negotiated topic, content, and tone in order to gain precious time on the air. Offering a new perspective on the collision between science’s idealistic and elitist view of public communication and the unbending economics of broadcasting, LaFollette rewrites the history of the public reception of science in the twentieth century and the role that scientists and their institutions have played in both encouraging and inhibiting popularization. By looking at the broadcasting of the past, Science on the Air raises issues of concern to all those who seek to cultivate a scientifically literate society today.

Author : Martin Shuster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226503950

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New Television by Martin Shuster Pdf

Worlds on screen: the ontology of television series and/as the ontology of film -- Storytelling and worldhood: the screen and us -- "This America, man": tragic reconciliation, television, and The Wire -- The gangster, boredom, and family: Weeds, natality, and new television -- "Boyd and I dug coal together": Justified, moral perfectionism, and the United States of America -- Conclusion

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135194796

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Encyclopedia of Television by Horace Newcomb Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045429227

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Educational Television by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : David Thelen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226794717

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Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television by David Thelen Pdf

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Participatory Moment 2: "Reagan's Magic" and "Olliemania": How Journalists Invented the American People 3: The Living Traditions of Citizenship: From Monitoring to Mobilizing in the Summer of 1987 4: Turning the Intimate into the Public: The Participatory Act of Writing a Congressman 5: Choosing a Voice and Making It Count 6: Interpreting Politics in Everyday Life 7: Bringing Critical Issues into the Public Forum: Policing the World and Defining Heroism 8: Making Citizens Visible: Toward a Social History of Twentieth-Century American Politics Conclusion: Drawing Politics Closer to Everyday Life Note on Sources and Method Notes Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : James Zigerell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Television in adult education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031608784

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Chicago's TV College by James Zigerell Pdf

Author : Jerrold Ackerman,Lawrence Lipsitz
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Education
ISBN : 087778096X

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Instructional Television by Jerrold Ackerman,Lawrence Lipsitz Pdf

Author : Bernard M. Timberg,Robert J. Erler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292773660

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Television Talk by Bernard M. Timberg,Robert J. Erler Pdf

Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers, the talk show is one of television's most popular and enduring formats, with a history as old as the medium itself. Bernard Timberg here offers a comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs. Dividing the history into five eras, he shows how the evolution of the television talk show is connected to both broad patterns in American culture and the economic, regulatory, technological, and social history of the broadcasting industry. Robert Erler's "A Guide to Television Talk" complements the text with an extensive "who's who" listing of important people and programs in the history of television talk.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045430761

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Educational Television and Radio Amendments of 1969, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power ... 91-1, on H.R.4212, H.R. 7737, S. 1242, June 18, 19, 1969, Serial No. 91-18 by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : David Bianculli
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101911327

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The Platinum Age of Television by David Bianculli Pdf

Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the Western, the animated series, the medical drama, and the variety show. In each genre he selects five key examples of the form to illustrate its continuities and its dramatic departures. Drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history, Bianculli shows how the medium has evolved into the premier form of visual narrative art. Includes interviews with: MEL BROOKS, MATT GROENING, DAVID CHASE, KEVIN SPACEY, AMY SCHUMER, VINCE GILLIGAN, AARON SORKIN, MATTHEW WEINER, JUDD APATOW, LOUIS C.K., DAVID MILCH, DAVID E. KELLEY, JAMES L. BROOKS, LARRY DAVID, KEN BURNS, LARRY WILMORE, AND MANY, MANY MORE