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    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. On comes an ad about toothbrushes, then…

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    Dr. John M. Grohol

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    kids do not know what it is like to play outside until it is dark, or what it is like to play board games. Children today watch so much television and play so many electronics that it is effecting their weight, grades, and behavior. Which is why Dr. John M. Grohol wrote an article about the bad effects television has on children. The main issue with television and today’s children is that they watch too much of it and parents are not censoring what they watch or play. This article was…

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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…

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    The television first truly became commercially popular in the 1950s as a way to influence public opinions. The major turning point for television came around when television’s first hit show, “Texaco Star Theater” starring Milton Berlet became so successful that, “Detroit 's reservoir levels dropped every Tuesday night at 9.00 pm because most people didn 't go to the toilet during the whole time of the show” (Summa 7). Further cementing television 's role as a media juggernaut is the…

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    Riverdale Twitter Scandal

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    much dedication it takes for an individual to tune into a show week-to-week and live tweet their commentary. For this television challenge experience, I chose to delve deep into The CW’s Riverdale Twitter fandom and live tweet my immediate reactions as the show aired. For this experience, I live tweeted under the account @tvaddictperson. With my phone in my hands and television tuned into The CW in front of me, I became fully engaged in a second screen viewing experience.…

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    The negative effects of television. Introduction Television is a great invention, being a good source of entertainment, education and is a powerful tool in economic growth. Television has become a member of each and every single family and time spent next to it exceeds the amount of time spent together with any other family member. One of the major objectives of television is to give the viewers pleasure,programs ,sports and games aired are actually meant to entertain the viewers. It has…

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    Television’s Impact on America’s Families Violent Television Shows Have Encouraged People to Be More Violent Walk into any home that has children across the country, and one will see thousands of children watching television shows for mature audiences. During the early evening of July 2, 2000, a young boy named Scott began watching television without his parents monitoring him. He would come home every day after school and begin watching television, even if he had more important things to do,…

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    Television is a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. It is a device that receives a vision and voice signals and reproduces them on a screen. Television has presented in our life long time before. People have different ways to enjoy their televisions; therefore, their television viewing habits totally are not the same. Indeed, television 's primary purpose is entertainment…

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    what is The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air?”. Actually, 9 of the 25 items on the list are television shows. 9 different shows that I watched for entertainment are on the most accessible form of entertainment during my childhood, television. By default, the television was always on in my house, whether it was dinner time or Saturday morning cartoon time, you could find my family huttled around our 27’ inch Sharp television set. Between those childhood…

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    Foe? From toddlers to senior citizens, television has placed ideas into their viewers’ heads that are false and fantasy-like. There are many shows on this form of entertainment that can be damaging to the human mind. It can put some very bad thoughts into the brain. It also affects behavior, health, and morality. Television in this generation can have a negative influence on viewers of all ages and can have several lasting effects on their minds. Television can put false and fantasy-like…

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