Pete Rozelle saw a possibility for higher ratings, by airing at least one Primetime game during the week, in the past the NFL tried to air on Friday nights, but critics said it would take away audiences from High School football games. That is when Pete Rozelle decided to experiment with a Monday night game in 1964 with an untelevised game between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions, which drew the largest audience attendance in Detroit at the time. According to Lewis (1998), “He invented (with ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge) Monday Night Football, which is the second longest running prime-time show on American television, after 60 Minutes” (p. 1).Although Rozelle experimented with Monday Night Football 1964, it did not take off until…
Jack R. Poppele once said,“Television’s future is as expansive as the human mind can comprehend.” This is true considering the enormous advances that have been made in the television industry, since Philo Farnsworth first demonstrated it to the public in 1927. In 1945 it was estimated that there were less than 10,000 television sets in American households, which later rose to 52 million sets in 1960. Nowadays 96.7 percent of Americans have a television in their household, and the average American watches 5 hours of TV a day. Television has swiftly changed American culture in extreme ways, along with impacting the views of politics, education, and entertainment.…
When one thinks of television, the image that comes to mind is a stationary piece of furniture, usually containing a cable box attached to a monitor/screen. However, in Jason Mittell’s book, Television and American Culture, Mittell offers a more fluid definition of the concept of television. In the introduction and chapter 1 of Jason Mittell’s book, Television and American Culture, Mittell begins to break down what exactly constitutes the idea of television and goes into detail about the television industry and the roles the television industry plays in the creation, distribution, and transmission of television programs into viewers’ homes. In the introduction, Mittell argues that television is not a singular, immovable object, but is a type…
“A Nation of Vidiots” is a synopsis of the growing consumption of televised programming within the United States and throughout the rest of the world. Jeffrey Sachs is the author of this writing; and in the writing the author goes into not only the consumption of television, but also the issues that said consumption is causing. Jeffrey Sachs states in this writing “in the 1950’s, fewer that 8% of American households owned a TV, but by 1960, 90% of homes had one” (441). Sachs talks about the fact that Americans are the highest consumers of television watching on average five hours of television per day (441). This writing uses the rhetorical triangle to influence the audience.…
1980’s Fashion The Titanic was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on July 14, 1986. Music was big in the 80’s and the hairstyles were crazy. Many new things were invented such as artificial hearts and cable television.…
1960s Television Imagine yourself sitting in the living room with your family. It’s the mid 1960s, and you’re flipping through channels until you reach CNN, where John F. Kennedy is standing at his post, giving a speech, with Nixon right behind him. You are watching the very first televised presidential debate. You decide to watch something else, so you click the remote, and Fred Flintstone appears on the screen, living life in the town of Bedrock.…
In "Vast Wasteland," Newton Minow gave a forewarning speech about television and the public interest. Minow is correct in his statement for these reasons: the influence of viewers, public interest, and the future impact of television. Television has a wide spread influence on everyone, especially children. Children are impacted so much by the things they have seen and watched on TV. They learn many things from TV, but their social skills and other learning abilities slow down.…
The most important event in the 1980s was the all the nuclear meltdowns because it showed the power of nuclear on humanity and his absolute capability to destroy the world meaning life on Earth. It showcased if there is “anything” in this world you have to be careful and protect it’s nuclear plants. It showed how many causalities…
As with just about everything, there are both positive as well as negative aspects to consider when looking at the effect of television in American culture. It is true that television can be educational, entertaining and empowering. The media consumption in general and TV specifically, has grown with rapid fervor over the past 60 years thus, a uniquely symbiotic relationship between culture and TV was born. This relationship has been slowly cemented by the cultures dependence on media in general.…
On October 22, 1939, the Philadelphia Eagles met with the Brooklyn Dodgers to play one another in the great game of American football (Allen). This game marked the start of something so big that nobody could have possibly predicted it. This game was the first football game to have ever been televised live. Just how many people across the United States tuned in to watch the very first televised football game that day? The number itself is quite depressing actually.…
It is no secret that the television has now become a staple device in the average American home. The history of the television has evolved tremendously compared to when television sets were first introduced to the public in the early 1940’s. Over the last sixty years, they are slimmer, produce sharp images, and come in various makes and models. Not only can these physical contributions be noted, television programs often correlate to what is going on in the outside world. Lauren Zalaznick, television executive, argues that television has a conscious and its popular programs reflect similar characteristics of the American society.…
Neil Postman’s 1985 novel “Amusing Ourselves to Death” presents many interesting and well-thought out claims, one of the major ones being about television and the dangers it presents to society. His main points on this subject pertaining to the fact …”that television has reduced our ability to take the world seriously.” By this, Postman is addressing the fact that all the information we receive now is through the television. Leading into one of his largest, and debatably most important, assertions, our society is morphing into something similar to Aldous Huxley’s “A Brave New World”. Where the people are controlled by entertainment and pleasure.…
Fred Brooks is the first recipient of ACM Allen Newel Award. This award is presented as a token of honour to the individuals for their contributions in bridging Computer Science with other disciplines. In the article “The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith – II”, Brooks has given the opinion that Computer Science is probably not the best name that is coined for the discipline of computers which deals with solving problems for the users. Explaining the core difference between Science and Engineering, he states that Science is about discovering facts and laws of the universe, but engineering is about creating new things. In Computer Science, we are focussed on creating new things/new solutions, so the discipline can be appropriately referred as…
Mass media has been on the rise since the early 1920s, however, most recently has it only began to allow individuals to express their thoughts and ideas more easily. Generally speaking, television is a form of mass media that plays a significant role in reflecting as well as creating cultures. Television allows individuals to be overwhelmed with messages from an abundant amount of different sources leading to the influence on society’s mood as well as attitude. Though it becomes quite obvious that television affects societies as a whole, there is still quite a debate on how much it really contributes into different cultures. To truly understand the study of television and its implications one has to understand the three major ideologies of…
ENGL 1515 ASSIGNMENT “TELEVISION” BY ROALD DAHL: AN ANALYTIC REVIEW NAME : NUR AFIFAH BINTI NOR HASBI MATRIC NO : 1416044 SECTION : 1 LECTURER : DR. MD.…