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Quiz shows and westerns 1955-1960

Quiz shows and westerns 1955-1960. RTV 3007 • Intro to Television. The rise and fall of the quiz show. Radio quiz shows like The $64 Question popular in the 1930s and 1940s . The FCC ruled that TV game shows with prizes were a kind of gambling, and banned them.

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Quiz shows and westerns 1955-1960

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  1. Quiz shows and westerns 1955-1960 RTV 3007 • Intro to Television

  2. The rise and fall of the quiz show • Radio quiz shows like The $64 Question popular in the 1930sand 1940s. • The FCC ruled that TV game shows with prizes were a kind of gambling, and banned them. • In 1945, The Supreoverruling the FCC.me Court ruled that TV game shows with prizes should be allowed, • In 1955, the first high-stakes Quiz show was created: the $64,000 Question. • In 1955-1956 it was the highest-rated TV show ever. • The $64,000 Question made the Revlon Cosmetics Company.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl8h6GtF5Qg

  3. The rise and fall of the quiz show • Many new quiz shows were created after the success of The $64,000 Question: 21, High-Low, Tic-Tac-Dough • Most of the shows were rigged. Sponsors, like Revlon, would tell the producers which contestant should win. • When it was revealed that the shows were rigged, the presidents of CBS and NBC were asked to testify before Congress • Trailer of Quiz Show Documentaryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbKgXI_dAco • In 1960, Congress amended the Communications Act to ban the practice of fixing TV game shows.

  4. Fallout from the quiz show scandals • Popularity of Quiz shows tanked. The $64,000 Question went from No. 1 to No. 20 overa few weeks. • Networks were anxious to prevent shows being perceived as “staged” ofr “fixed.” • Murrow’s show Person to Person was cancelled because some of the interviews were rehearsed and some of the shots staged. • Panel game shows replaced quiz shows: Password, What’s My Line. • Producer Merv Griffin created a new game show where contestants were given the answers and had to guess the question.

  5. Fallout from the quiz show scandals • Short clip of 1964Jeopardy pilot with host Art Fleming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBf4wG0BMLs • Jeopardy 1974http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AJtYPKNBqg • Jeopardy Think Music 1964http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rwA3k5CmBc • Jeopardy Think Music 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wi8Fv0AJA4

  6. Television goes western • In 1955, Cheyennebecomes a big hithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0oY5adI5sU • Cheynne showed a romanticized image of an earlier America. It was quickly followed by many other Westerns: Gunsmoke, Wyatt Earp,Broken Arrow, Bonanza and others. • Gunsmoke1955 pilothttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln19GNiqXBo • Bonanza1959 pilothttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NKiacey-M&list=PL6fJmjt84zZiWk6e8mBtjFUU2PCVcO_I6 • Westerns were one of the first most popular US TV exports. Raised issues of “US cultural hegemony” around the world.

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