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The Television

The Television. Transmitting and receiving moving images Past Vs. Today Describe how TV affects life today. Facts about TV. Avg. person spends 4 hrs per day 28 hrs. per week 2 months non stop each year 65 yr. life span, 9 yrs. Spent watching TV. History of the television.

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The Television

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  1. The Television Transmitting and receiving moving images Past Vs. Today Describe how TV affects life today

  2. Facts about TV • Avg. person spends 4 hrs per day • 28 hrs. per week • 2 months non stop each year • 65 yr. life span, 9 yrs. Spent watching TV

  3. History of the television • 1927: U.S. started researching and creating the television • 1939: RCA unveiled the television in the New York’s Fair *Many inventors helped create the television 1. Paul Nipkow 2. John Logie Baird 3. Charles Jenkins 4. Philo Farnsworth 5. Vladimir Zworykin Watch the “Television” http://app.discoveryeducation.com/mycontent#mode=MyContent&view=Favorites

  4. History of TV in America • 1940’s U.S. stopped producing TVs because of the war • After WWII: Restarted production • 1948: FCC (Federal Communications Commission) created to regulate broadcasting • 1950s: Birth of the TV culture • People had money to spend that they were saving during the war • Big Three Networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC • CBS & NBC: Switched from radio to TV to make money off the new invention • ABC: American Broadcasting Company created for TV • 1980s: FOX becomes a big network • 1990s: UPN and WB were established making Big 6 • All networks carry on radio invention of commercial advertising • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ww3nW7fEXk&safe=active • Watch “Selling the American Dream” http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=television#N=18343+4294939031+4294939055+4294939062&No=0&Ntt=television&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial

  5. TV and 1950s Culture • 1947: 7,000 TVs in the US vs. 1955: 65% of US had TVs • Mass Media: What are the affects TV has on American Life? • 1950s America: Capitalism, Consumerism, and Materialism • New appliances, new cars, new homes, and “keeping up with the Jones’s” in the expanding suburbs • After WWII: Men wants jobs back • Companies and Govt work use advertising to sell the American Dream to suburban women • Housewives on TV: Push them back into the home and away from independence and expanded rights of the WWII era • Watch 1950s: Consumerism, TV and Cold War Fears • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=television

  6. Evolution of TV • Quiz shows, talk shows, and some Sci-Fi also popular • 1951: Color TV invented • 1956: TV remote invented • Neither were popular or common for another 10-15 years • NEWS • Kept people from ignoring the problems of the world and spread awareness of issues • 1963: JFK assassination was one of the first big TV news events • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-LA0ypFXig • 1990s: Multiple 24-hour news stations were created • Cover famine in Africa and the Gulf War • Today: News has tripled in size from 15 minutes to 30 minutes to 1 hour programming and whole channels devoted to it

  7. History of the 1950s • Cold War: Korean War (1950-1953) • D -President Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) • R-President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) • 1954: Brown vs. Board of Education • http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower • Medicine: Polio vaccine created, DNA discovered, and 1st organ transplanted • Science: Sputnik launched, NASA created, Velcro invented, and seat belts introduced • Pop Culture: Peanuts cartoons, Playboy, Lego, Hula Hoops, the Peace Symbol, Barbie, “The Cat in the Hat” and Disneyland created • Fast Food popularized: White Castle and McDonalds • 1956: Elvis gyrates on TV and sings first black crossover songs • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_vZqsj2rSA

  8. TV in the 1950s • Clean family shows with “nuclear family” structure, showing suburban life with a moral to every episode • Dad works and is authority figure, mom stays home doing chores and is very loving, kids are well behaved • Westerns were also popular: Begin gradual process of desensitizing America to violence • Heavy Censorship: • Parents can’t sleep in the same bed • Can’t use the word “pregnant” • No sexuality or divorce

  9. 1950s • American Bandstand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGLNtZ0rEg • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtcqKb-OIA

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  11. History of the 1960s • Cold War: Berlin Wall built, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War begins • D-President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) • First televised presidential debates against VP Richard Nixon • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os • D-President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1968) • Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, War on Poverty • The Presidents: Truman to Ford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6blTDv0hs • Inventions: Lasers, Wal-Mart, Birth Control Pill • Pop Culture: First Super Bowl • Johnny Carson the Tonight Show (1955-1992) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaWVBx6IhEw • The Beatles (1960-1970) Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgC549mpRk • Woodstock and Moon Landing

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  13. TV in the 1960s • TV Shows weren’t in color until 1964 • Alternative Family Shows: Same family values but in odd fantasy situations • Bewitched, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Gilligan’s Island, My Favorite Martian • Some shows with single parents (not divorced) show changing culture • Nation’s reaction to losing the “father” of the country • My Three Sons, Family Affair • Saturday Morning Shows for kids: • Sesame Street was a controversial new approach to educating children • Bugs Bunny or Bullwinkle entertained kids and adults • Ads geared toward children became more common • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTzuO24i-YA

  14. TV in the 1960s • Action shows: Police Justice shows were becoming popular but heavily regulated • J. Edgar Hoover, 1st director of the FBI, kept files on all directors and actors who portrayed police or govt officers in a negative way • Dragnet, James Bond, The Fugitive, Batman, The Avengers • Science Fiction and Horror: Alfred Hitchcock, Star Trek, and Lost in Space • Southern-themed shows and Westerns were popular • The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, The Andy Griffith Show, Lassie, Gunsmoke

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  16. 1970s • Cold War: Kent State Shooting, End of the Vietnam War, opened relations with China again • R-President Richard Nixon (1968-1974) • Watergate Scandal (1972) • Spying on the opposition: Break into Democratic National HQ • White House tapes: Secret recordings of the Nixon Administration • Deep Throat: Code name for secret source that reporters used to expose the corruption in Washington Post by Bernstein and Woodward http://www.history.com/topics/watergate • R-President Gerald Ford takes over (1974-1976) • D-President Jimmy Carter (1976-1980) • Fought for Human Rights: Against discrimination and poverty • Won Noble Peace Prize after presidency • The Presidents: Carter to George W. Bush: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NDY25x8OFY

  17. History of the 1970s • News: Most famous anchor was Walter Cronkite on CBS Evening News (1962-1981) • Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Given Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 • Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981): 52 Americans held by students supporting the Iranian Revolution (anti-western nations) • 1978 Jonestown Massacre: Cult members commit suicide by drinking poison together, 912 die including 276 children • Inventions: Pocket calculators, Microsoft founded (1975), Walkman (1979) Atari (1972) • 1972: Phillips Co. created VCRs vs. Sony Betamax for video recording • Betamax was too expensive to compete • 1977: RCA created VHS format and it took over until the late 1980s/1990s

  18. History of the 1970s • Pop Culture: • Disco music and night clubs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPlOpK1u4HI • Soul Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8gN3570vA • Soap Operas, like on the radio, became popular again • “All My Children” was watched by men and teens as well as women • M*A*S*H (1972-1983) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sqBYziYBAs • Elvis dies 1977, Star Wars breaks records at the box office (1977) • Variety Shows became popular: Donnie and Marie, Sonny and Cher, and The Muppets • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uZljxsyD8 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4SZmIeGGts • Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, etc. • https://screen.yahoo.com/bill-murray-snl-skits/nerds-broken-fridge-000000200.html

  19. TV in the 1970s • Only 7% of households had cable by 1969 • 1975: HBO was the 1st cable station you could pay for • Most had just 3-4 stations and few had remotes • Most TV commercials targeted children and housewives • Lengths were shortened to 30 seconds and only 10 min/hr • To capture a wider audience, new shows portrayed various ethnicities and social classes • Mostly stereotypes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfaeAONBwSk • Groundbreaking Sitcoms: Formerly taboo topics became more acceptable • Politics, religion, abuse, prejudice, sexism, sex, homosexuality, menopause, protest, etc. • All in the Family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0moT5eYrec • Mary:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sclp4wVV2Cc&list=PLEE9895F3B582108F • Taxi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn-tBeLpCk

  20. History of the 1980s • Cold War: 1989: Berlin Wall falls, Germany reunited • R-President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) • http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/ronald-reagan • 1987: Stock Market Crash and Recession • Science: AIDS identified(1981) • Sally Ride becomes 1st American woman in space (1984) • Challenger space shuttle explodes after launch (1986) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfnvFnzs91s • News: Hole discovered in the Ozone Layer • Sandra Day O’Conner: 1st woman on US Supreme Court (1981-2006)) • China: Tiananmen Square Pro-Democracy Protest • 2600 killed (241 in Chinese records) heavily censored in China • Chernobyl Nuclear meltdown in Ukraine (1986) • Bhopal, India: Union Carbide Gas Leak kills thousands (1984) • http://history1900s.about.com/od/1980s/qt/bhopal.htm

  21. History of the 1980s • Pop Culture: John Lennon assassinated (1980) • Nintendo game console released in the US • Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album breaks records • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA • Cabbage Patch Kids, My Little Pony, Care bears, E.T. , Pac Man, Rubik Cube, Smurfs • Break dancing and Hip Hop become popular • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9tiHjN6Vg • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6e9G-ump3Y • Personal Computers: 1st released in 1977 by Apple, they become popular during the 1980s and Microsoft releases their 1st operating system • 1986: Miss Greene was born!

  22. TV of the 1980s • Cable becomes common and expands channel options • Growth of video recording industry created more competition • Kids start having their own TVs in their bedrooms • More realistic cutting-edge shows, less family-oriented • More shock value: nudity, violence, and profanity • More real life issues showing struggles of everyday life • Police Dramas like Miami Vice, cartoons like Ninja Turtles • More kids home alone after school while both parents worked • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGcKb1zrtSM • MTV becomes popular: Started 1977, but first music video aired in 1981 • http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+killed+the+radio+star&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=10B5570B0EF22B1A311510B5570B0EF22B1A3115

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  24. 1990s • Dec. 1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union, ends the Cold War • R-President George H. Bush (1989-1993) • Persian Gulf War and Desert Storm • http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/george-bush/videos/operation-desert-storm-vet-jon-custer • D-President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) • Economic surplus, expanding welfare, reduced crime, support of minorities • Impeached for an affair in 1998 but was not kicked out of office • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEmjwR0Rs20 • News: The end of Apartheid in South Africa (1948-1994) • http://www.history.com/topics/apartheid/videos • Rwandan Genocide: Hutu’s kill 800,000 Tutsis, caused by Dutch colonialism • http://history1900s.about.com/od/rwandangenocide/a/Rwanda-Genocide.htm • Use of Internet and computers grow exponentially • Riots in LA after Rodney King verdict against police brutality: 53 killed • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfHVZaGFJl8 • 1999: Columbine School shooting in Colorado: 13 killed

  25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST4YSoLyexs&list=PL76ABB497A32A9243http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST4YSoLyexs&list=PL76ABB497A32A9243 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zItZwHS0Y

  26. TV of the 1990s • Inventions: TiVO!, CDs, DVDs, flat screens, plasma TVs and HD, Sega and Playstation • Pop Culture: VH1, TRL, Boy Bands, Teen Magazines, Grunge Music, Spice Girls, Hansen, and rapper turf wars • New sitcoms had more cliff hangers, characters Americans could relate to, and one-liners to quote to our friends • Previous shows always had a moral or life lesson and ended with closure and happiness • Seinfeld, Rosanne, and Friends • Crime and Sci-Fi: Law & Order, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Shift to more realistic shows eventually leads to reality TV like The Real World • Talk Shows focused on drama, tragedy, and scandal • Maury, Montel, and Jerry Springer

  27. TV of the 1990s • Nickelodeon caters TV channel to kids (started 1977) • Rugrats, Doug, Blue’s Clues, All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Spongebob, Kenan and Kel, Clarissa Explains It All • Adult-geared cartoons also became popular • Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, Daria, The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy • Evening Dramas geared toward the younger generation and more open about sex and relationships • Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Dawson’s Creek, and Sex in the City • More shows for African Americans like Family Matters, Martin, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

  28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13IRBiUqzY&list=PLBC5E582E7A5DB518http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13IRBiUqzY&list=PLBC5E582E7A5DB518 TGIF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWiPaQ872c

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