... once again under scrutiny. In an article in Broadcasting & Cable titled The Gender Trap, Post Newsweek president Bill Ryan stated, "Any station, any network is vulnerable." Former Post Newsweek director Dow Smith claims that this law suit could leave any station susceptible for charges. (qtd. Trigboff 129: 20-25) Last year Columbia University published a journalism review documenting the attempt of one television ... create a news program that exemplified "old fashioned" news, where the story was the top concern instead of the look, age, or sex of the correspondent. The station was WBBM...

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... show featuring normal people with unique hobbies and talents. Throughout his stay Allen took notes on the business side of entertainment, learning the workings of television production. By personally calling station owners, programming directors and advertisers, one-by-one and market-by-market from his dining room he learned business of advertising and syndication. The rest was up from there. It ... produces about 10 new hours of content each week. Each week he churns out 10 hours of new content. Being the Capitalist that he is Allen's strategy involves meeting TV station demands for pr...

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... , and then heavily choreographed. (Eric Cramer 1-25)There has been many of cases where they the people have found out the candles and the television station got cough and suede. In the television show Survivor the the station was sued because producers thought a certain individual was bad for ratings. Therefore, the told the other contestants to vote them off the island and ... ...

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... very often created and based mostly on speculation based on rumors. The media feeds itself and bombards most people with news that is either speculative, or manipulated according to the station's or editor's views based on their political, religious, or general life style. He feels that anyone making a decision based on the media must be better educated in order to really ... impact at the time, until it was broadcasted on TV and all the world leaders were parading at the funeral. He first found out about 9/11 when he watching a European station and at first thought it was an accident. ...

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... the first time. He was not terribly popular in college"(Leamer, 1989). As soon as Johnny graduated college in 1949, he went to work for WOW, the most important radio station in Nebraska. On August 1, 1949, The Johnny Carson Show went on the air each morning form eight fifteen until nine o"clock. This was really a variety news show where he told ... time with chit chat. On October 1, 1949, Johnny and Jody were married. While Johnny was at WOW, television was becoming an emerging force in broadcasting. WOW had just started a television station in the summer of 1949, and Johnny was enthusi...

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... pillow, reclined my side of the sofa, and grabbed my soft velvet afghan. I pressed the button on the remote control; the TV flared to life, and I was appalled with every station I switched to, from factual stories in the news, to the violence in the movies being shown, to the so called comedy of the cartoons, the shows all revolved around violence ... by TV with the same importance. Any violence is TV news, the video capture and sound bite is what TV deems important. I keep clicking again and again. Is there any station broadcasting news that is not "violent"? I choose next to find a mo...

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... share the Stanley Cup Finals. The NHL's championship series. (It should also be noted that ABC owns ESPN). The problem with TV deal is that ESPN is a paid for cable station, which means that you can only watch the finals games on ESPN if you have cable. Because of this, hockey doesn't get as much exposure as other sports do too ... was on ESPN for people to watch in all parts of the country except the Tri-State area. Here, we are expected to watch the game on the Devils local station, which happens to be FOX Sports Net NY. The only problem with this is that my cable deal doesn't give me...

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... rating and parents won't have to worry about it. Many TV's now are being made with the V-Chip in them. It really is a good way for parents to block the station and keep teens away from TV violence. As a result to this teens have been less aggressive towards other classmates and other teens, many who watch violent TV become very careless ... ; it's the choice of the parents to take this into consideration. Many teens will rebel but set them down and talk to them; make sure they know why their favorite station was taken away and how it could affect them if they got too immune to violent pr...

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... an outside group step in and stop what is being shown. A couple of years ago a man pulled out a gun and shot himself in front of a new conference. All the news station had their own video of it and each had to decide when to stop showing the recording of the event. Do they show the man in front of the group ... his final curse and then stop? Do they show him pulling the trigger and killing himself and then stop? Do they show the entire event and the reactions afterward? Each station decided when to stop. According to some studies, the violence acts shown on TV, inspires children to do t...

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... children see this material anyway? The American people put pressure on the big television companies to begin a ratings system on TV shows several years ago. The result was every large station suggesting their own system, with the exclusion of NBC. The government then opted for a system similar to the one used to rate movies. Generic letters suggesting a certain group of people ... ...

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... a greater influence in our lives than our parents and teachers do. The broadcasters are now the ones who have the power over us. What they decide to air on their station is what is now used to influence our everyday lives. Whether it is our fashion style to who we want to vote for, they help to influence it. The broadcasters ... ...

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... edge, and ask if your man enough to take it. They call it reality TV, but how real is it. The show is directed towards men, along with the whole station. The show covers one exercise for each of the four military services. What this show does with each one of these is hype them up. It uses all the "fast ... ...

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... that more discretion should be used when reporting? A rating is an estimate of the percentage of the total number of people or households inn the total population tuned to a specific station or network during a specific time period. Ratings quantify the value of television advertising. They also help determine the success or failure of TV programs. Ratings are an objective estimate of ... ...

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... zoned into their television set and sit there and watch it all day long without moving a single muscle. It is very easy to become addicted to a certain television show or station. Being addicted to the program is what the people who run the show want you to be so that the show can get more ratings and make more money. If ... ...

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... were huge. The bill in effect increase the numbe of stations a company could own. This caused a frenzy of buying and selling of radio stations. The bill also effected television and station ownership, it removed the number of stations that could be owned (as long as less than 35% of Americas homes were reached). Various other changes took place as well they ... ...

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... zoned into their television set and sit there and watch it all day long without moving a single muscle. It is very easy to become addicted to a certain television show or station. Being addicted to the program is what the people who run the show want you to be so that the show can get more ratings and make more money. If ... ...

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... wrong. As a parent you shouldn't hesitate to say "NO" to a program if you think it is not appropriate. If a person does not like what they see on cable or a network station, they have the right to turn off the television or change the channel. Thus the miracle of modern technology comes into play. People, when they order cable channels such as ... ...

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... information for 50 years. But with today's technology, a new standard has been in the works, HDTV (High Definition Television), a much higher quality signal. In September of 1992, the first television station in the country to send HDTV signals over the air waves was NBC's WRC-TV in Washington DC. It was then obvious that the future of TV would be HDTV ... ...

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... states that some stations play mainly non-violent cartoons. In reality, one of the only nonviolent children's networks is Nickelodeon. The most violent children's network is The Cartoon Network. The station, dedicated to children's cartoons, thrives on violence. Some violence in cartoons is acceptable. Analysts have divided violence into two categories: There are two types of violence in cartoons. One is ... ...

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... ago, but now it's lying around anywhere in the world and it's popular among the young and old. Six years ago, I was using walkman, an electronic gadget that received radio station signals. There were no such things as Mp3 players. Personally, I used most of the main modes of media such as television, radio, newspaper and internet. But since becoming an overseas ... ...

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... organizations. The British Broadcasting Corporation is an example. They were funded by the taxes of television sets sold. They set up a very well known reputation of being an excellent broadcasting station. The CBC, or Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was also run loosely by government, and was also praised for its broadcasting. But as time went on, the government-run networks began to ... ...

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... age. Also on the radio, "clean" versions of songs are being played but these songs still say things young children shouldn't be hearing. Most kids now listen to whatever radio station and are smart enough to know what is really being said behind all the "bleeps." Again, music is another thing that I believe parents should be aware of what their kids ... ...

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... they show conflict, win-lose scenarios, betrayal, stealing, cheating, jealousy and many more immorally wrong way of life. On one network, contestants are eating live cockroaches on Fear Factor. Another station features a man on Survivor lying about his grandmother's death in order to boost his chances of winning $1 million. Click the remote again and see the utterly rich Paris Hilton living ... ...

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... meadows of flowers. You would be there most of the day eat lunch around a campfire and get back around 8:30. On trip number two; you would go to the science station in Des Moines. There you would get to see a wide variety of rocks, plants, animals, and much much more. You would also get to eat lunch in the break rooms ... ...

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... many groups---women, ethnic groups, old people, families. Discuss the prejudices these images encourage. Look for opinions in news or discussion porgrams. Discuss television advertising and the motives of the station or advertiser in showing T.V. ads. Point out the distortions, implications, special effects, background music, and the use of paid celebrities in T.V. ads. Watch television with your children. Know what they ... ...

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