American Broadcasting Company

popular shows among 18 to 49 year olds with at least four years of college, with slightly lesser rating in the young and rich category (Siede). Furthermore, as the first network show with an Indian American lead and creator, The Mindy Project was likely, attempting to attract the booming South Asian American population of the last decade (Nielson) which, according to Pew Research is among the most highly educated racial or ethnic groups in the U.S. and have higher median incomes and tend to be…

giving rule power over the technical details of broadcasting (i.e. frequencies, licensing, call signs, and emergency alert system). The Communications Act of 1934 allows the FCC to enforce both included and future regulations, which gave “the government influence over technologies that did not exist at that time, including television and the internet” (Rouse, 2017).…

pointer across a map of Europe, then consumed by war. The poor quality of the picture made it difficult to make out the newsman, let alone the map. World War II slowed the development of television, as companies like RCA turned their attention to…

the duty of the media to the people. American political writer and reporter, Walter…

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…

Turner broadcasting system v. federal communications commission is a case that was argued on October 7, 1996. This case went to the Supreme Court and it is about television companies to devote some of their channels to local broadcast television stations. Also this case was designed to prevent cable operators from using their economic power to determine of broadcasters. The argument was that all Americans that are unable to have cable. They could get free television programming. The cable…

Media Literacy is defined as the ability to analyze and understand what we see in the news everyday. Media literacy is super important in today’s society. It is clear in examples like the case of Michael Brown that media perspectives warps everything we see today. One example that stands out to me was the activity we did in Contemporary Social Themes examining different perspectives in articles about the Murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Most of them seemed to take the side of Michael Brown.…

series created by Daniels, and his co-writer Danny Strong, spotlights on a hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama surrounding the members of the originator’s family as they fight for ownership of the company. The show stars Terrence Howard who plays Lucious Lyon, a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and the CEO of Empire Entertainment music company, Taraji P.…

On today’s CNN stories and daily broadcast, their top stories had to do with Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension in the NFL from the Baltimore Ravens compared to Fox’s top story of Obama’s foreign policy as the ISIS crisis is going on and his head military leader is getting involved by grounding troops after President Obama has vowed to not get into another ground war in Iraq. Both Fox news and CNN news have made it clear to specify and show who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are. To CNN Ray…

There were pleas for favors, as when a Democratic Party official emailed Chuck Todd, the “Meet the Press” host, for tickets to an exclusive NBC soiree. (“I can’t even get every producer on my cable show into the party,” Mr. Todd replied.) There were gripes about coverage, with party aides dismissing the MSNBC host Steve Kornacki as a “hipster pit bull.” And there was disdain for the frequent flattery by television journalists. When Fox News sought permission to sponsor a Democratic primary…