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Millions of television viewers found themselves without access to ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' and many other popular television programs yesterday as a battle between the country's two biggest media companies, Time Warner and Walt Disney, became a bitter public confrontation. The dispute involves how much Time Warner should pay Disney for carrying its cable channels. But it also touches on larger issues dealing with the distribution of news and entertainment programming, including the…

Comparative Platform Essay Netflix is something that’s rapidly become a part of society’s everyday life. It’s been taking over cable television, and shockingly taking over some people’s lives. Last weekend I visited my family’s log cabin in what’s known to be the middle of nowhere in rural Pennsylvania. Since there is absolutely no cable there, I knew I had to figure out a way to bring a system to watch the show that has been taking over my life, Stranger Things. We knew we could bring my…

Television programs throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s confronted race in the United States. African American’s had always been misrepresented on television, or if portrayed, the characters would embody racial stereotypes. Therefore, in the late 1960’s, African Americans began to receive more prominent roles in popular American television programs on big networks. This era was a major time for a change in race relations in the African American community in the media. The representation of…

This television series was inspired by Islamophobia that American Muslim men and women have been facing since 9/11, especially the conflict that Muslim women were having with wearing their traditional clothing (Richards). The hijab, which is a traditional head…

A decade ago, no one would have imagined that the television industry would explore making programming available on the Internet. Nowadays, we can watch tv programs on any device connected to the Internet. As we transition the delivery of content over the internet, the line between traditional tv, where you sit at home on a couch with your family, to watching tv on a mobile device, continues to blur. For the audience, it is a win-win situation, but for the creators of the shows it means that you…

The Mindy Project premiered on September 25, 2012 on FOX, airing alongside a mixture of new programs The Mob Doctor, Touch, Ben and Kate, and recurring programs, Raising Hope, New Girl, The X Factor, Fringe, American Idol, and Glee. The workplace sitcom, created by lead actress, Mindy Kaling, still riding high on the success from The Office, was paired with FOX’s established hit, New Girl, on Tuesday nights. It was considered one of the most promising comedies of the season despite that fact…

One company that I previously interned for and would be interested in pursuing a career at is WGBH, a radio and television facility located in the Brighton suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. The first thing I wanted to know is what the call letters WGBH stand for. After some research I discovered that the “W” – indicates that the station is located east of the Mississippi River (a “K” is used for stations to the west) and “GBH” - stands for Great Blue Hill (named for the blue hue of the granite…

History of television in the initial stages was marked by patent wars, testing plans and various demonstrations of technology but not a great deal of programming. On July 1, 1941, NBC became the first network to launch a commercially sponsored broadcast and was soon followed by CBS and others. But with the advent of World War II The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned the commercial production of TV equipment for the duration of war. People craved for TV especially after the Great…

In 1975, Raymond Williams published a book about television, and in that book Williams wrote about the history of television, how television worked in 1975, and his predictions for television in the future years. This essay will focus on what Williams had to say about television in 1975, in comparison to a show that came out in 1985 (Edge of Darkness) a decade after Williams’ book. This essay will also compare television today in 2017 to how it was in 1975 according to Williams. To begin, I…

lifestyles of U.S. citizens were modified because of the contents of the very popular TV Sitcom, Friends. My thoughts, however, differ from Hopkins; I believe that it is an extreme exaggeration to blame the downfall of Western Civilization on a Television show. Hopkins displays a lot evidence to back up his point by discussing some of the events that followed the airing of the beloved sitcom such as “Paris Hilton [starting] her own lifestyle brand” or “Joey Tribbiani…