For my first exploration into my documentary review, I looked at many different documentaries. They had many genres that I found interesting including documentaries about war and terrorism, different conspiracy theories, what it is like behind the walls of a prison and even on different people who I found interesting including a well-known artist called Bansky. Eventually, I decided on a Frontline documentary called A League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis.…
Digital television expansion during the last decade has also led to a collection of niche networks to launch that focus only on a particular demographic or program-type, like Nicktoons which only focuses on animation, and Nick Jr. which focuses on preschool content. This expansion of options for children’s content has convinced some members of Congress that applying public money to any media would be a waste, especially since networks like Nick Jr., through the influence of PBS, have started to list the educational focuses of each show on their website and before the show airs (nickjr.com, 2011). Even though shows on other networks, especially preschool programming, have taken a more educational stance they are still a part of commercial television where the network must worry about ratings and appeasing advertisers to make revenue from commercials. This concern over ratings and commercial revenue overshadows the network’s concern for providing quality, educational content for children. PBS existence as a content producer, and competitor to the commercial networks, forces the commercial networks to attempt to rise up and match the quality of PBS’s children’s…
Among all types of movies, documentary is the one that I am least interested in.…
News Channel 4 signed on the air as WNBT on July 1,1941, at 1:29 p.m. This historic event was the beginning of commercial television in the United States. At 2:30 p.m. the same day, WNBT again made history when 4,000 television sets were tuned to the station's first telecast, a game at Ebbets Field between Brooklyn and Philadelphia, followed by the P&G sponsored "Truth or Consequences" and "Uncle Jim's Questions Bee."…
Radio Networks were first created in 1926 by NBC. Other stations included CBS, Mutual Broadcasting,…
History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. . History.com Staff.…
On April 16, 1962, Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) began anchoring the CBS Evening News. Cronkite defined the issues and events for America for almost two decades and was the identity and face of the CBS Evening News. Through his reassuring authority reporting the news, Cronkite became known at the ‘most trusted man in America.’ His talent, experience in professionalism, genuine emotion, and honesty as an anchor was unparalleled.…
On January 14, 1952, at 7 a.m est, Americans awoke to the evolutionary and first ever NBC-TV "Today Show".…
The first television news program that I watched was Fox News, channel 118 on Wednesday September 5, 2012. I watched from 4:30PM until 5:00PM.…
Netflix developed and maintains an extensive personalized video-recommendation system based on ratings and reviews by its customers. On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a $1,000,000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm, Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10%.…
In 2008, the Emmys awarded a stature to the best host of a reality TV show for the first time, which was exciting news to all…
When the news was aired on television through the 50s and 60s, news programming would typically run from 7.30 to 11 PM on the major networks- and there were no other channels. The news was presented in a calm and unbiased manor by actual professionals in the industry, and there was ample time to delve into a great number of news items from around the world. For this generation the faces of people like Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt and Andy Rooney gave a feeling of trust and…
We can also seek great revelations from our lost worlds and discoveries on television as great archeologists on the Discovery Channel, on the History Channel, and some not archeologists not so recognized. It is wonderful looking at those shows like with the new discovery of the lost bones on the find of the new dinosaur that was found to be the largest dinosaur discovered in china said to be larger than the T-Rex, or those archeologist who sift through the sands of time in Egypt…
Through the years there have been many television shows but not all of them are favorites and the most watched. There are a lot of types of TV shows but some of the most watched are, Romance, Comedy, and Drama/Suspense TV shows. There are series, seasons, themes, and much more; these are the things that directors combine to make any type of TV show. There can be a lot of shows but the one that are the Most watched TV shows in America are the ones that have these combinations; in making the best TV shows in what ever topic it maybe. The Most Famous TV shows in America are the ones that will make you sit in the corner of your sofa waiting for what will happen next.…
Educational and entertainment programs which usually called as ‘edutainment’ is entertainment programs that is designed to educate as well as to entertain. There are many programs that not only entertaining but also have some educational values. One of the educational television program that very popular is the Discovery Channel. This channel is actually aimed for adults, and are very educative and entertaining. There is still a program for children to learn alphabet and increase children’s willingness to read, such as “Little Enstein”. Trough those programs, people can learn many thing about the society. Children also can develop their knowledge and can learn many things. It can be a very useful and effective learning tool.…