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    This article, Television Beyond the Networks, offers case studies on first-run scripted syndicated programs that expresses a national audience through syndication in the United States during the 1970s. Even though certain programs, Rosen’s Story Theatre and Mary Hartman for example, despised the efforts to operate outside the networks distribution circuits, these series faced challenges that a range factors in the dominance of the network era. The body of television programming created and broadcast in the United States. American TV programs, like American popular culture in general in the 20th and early 21st centuries, have spread far beyond the boundaries of the United States and have had an influence on global popular culture. Although television was regarded by many as “radio with pictures,” the public’s reaction to the arrival of TV was widely different from that afforded the advent of radio. The author states that television has change in each decade- from live drama in the 1950s, to sitcoms in the 1970s, and the takeover of reality television in this century. She states that television is under…

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    Throughout the past 70 years, black actors have endured numerous standards of type-casting in network television. Nowadays African Americans have a better opportunity than ever before to star in roles that formerly were exclusively reserved for whites. Even though network television does a much better job depicting blacks in a variety situations, blacks continue to be, in many ways, similarly typecast. During the 1950s, black characters were portrayed in demeaning and stereotypical ways by…

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    Shaping the image of black America starting in network television. American Television in the late 1950s and early 1960s was mainly focused on Westerns. In these films of western heroes. They had no central character that was African American. Detective series were popular in TV in the early 1960s. The setting for detective series usually are in urban surroundings, so, African-American actors were used a lot. Blacks did appear more often in detective dramas than in Westerns. To expression this…

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    With time, I started to notice that the only reason I had the full cable package was the need to be included in the conversations my coworkers were having about television shows. This book was like a giant neon sign saying, “This cable television has to go!” As I have gained more control over my budget, letting things go has become easier. One of the hardest things for me to let go of was cable television. There was no way I could justify paying $60 month just to watch television. So, I had to…

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    A movie entitled The Godfather is chosen as object in this analysis. Don Corleone as one of main character chosen as source data. Regarding utterance from Don Corleone this movie presents a numbered of presupposition in various context. Then relation between presupposition and context obtains a certain meaning of an utterance. As considering, statement from Stalnaker who said that context influences content, while content can creates a context because sometimes word that say has a function not…

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    The unsolved mystery about the Sodder Family still remains today. The story is about a family of eleven who had a fire start in their home mysteriously and “lost” five children. This incident took place in Fayetteville, West Virginia on Christmas Eve to Christmas morning in 1945. There is a lot evidence and many theories about this case. There have been investigations about where the Sodder children are and how the fire occurred in the first place, but none of them seem to be right so this story…

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    commercial commodity, an aesthetic endeavor, and a social institution. As a result, those making programming decisions will be variously evaluated according to perceptions of their business judgment, their aesthetic tastes, and the values they impart” (Bielby and Bielby 1994:1290). “in a mass-culture industry with a high level of market concentration such as network television, brokers are more directly accountable to commercial interests than to creative interests” (Bielby et al. 1994:1291).…

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    In this article the author predicts that traditional television viewing as we know it where the viewer is required to tune in at a certain time and day in order to watch a particular program will soon become a thing of the past. In the near future, viewers will be able to select any program, at any time from platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, and Snapchat. As inevitable as this new television may seem, its arrival is slow in coming due to the fact that both distributors and networks…

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    In today’s society, people demand the best on the market when it comes to entertainment, and one of America’s favorite forms of entertainment is watching television. Two very popular services offered are Direct TV and Netflix, and both have proved to satisfy their customers in some way or another, but at different costs. In fact, when it comes to television entertainment, families spend their money unwisely without pondering the pros and the cons of each service. With no doubt, Netflix is the…

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    commercial television networks in Australia, is currently facing many issues due to a lack of ratings, and programing not resonating with viewers. Channel Ten showed significant dominance in the industry during the early 2000s, having programing that was unique from all the other networks such as Australian Idol, and shows imported from the US that were extremely well targeted to younger demographics. However, in recent years the network has struggled to keep pace as the rise has seen a rise…

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