... half to almost five hours a day watching television. (Mitchell Stephens, Grolier Encyclopedia) The dictionary entry for television is as follows: "an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into ... came out with something. The device they created was the first to transmit silhouette moving images. A few years later, in 1926, Baird operated a system that was at 30 lines of resolution and 5 frames per second. In 1927, for the first time ever, was the first long...

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... have been taken to help stop the problem of children being influenced by violent programming, such attempts are the V-chip which allows parents to block unwanted programs and the rating system that lets parents know what age group programs are aimed at. Bu the key word to all of this is "parents". It is in the parents hands to take control ... to be ridiculed on television in the early days through shows such as Amos and Andy and other vaudeville and minstrel type characters. The NAACP worked hard to get these stereo types removed. Other characters such as Buckweet were seen as stereoty...

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... the stations get from screening a season. "When we put 'Cops' on and 'America's Most Wanted,' we were spending $135,000 in a half hour," says Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting System. Today, he says, these reality shows cost $800,000 an hour," (CBS). The possibilities of having re-runs of the shows are not as successful as conventional T.V. programs or movies ... . Many of the executives will choose a specific personality type to fit the projected personality for the show. One can see on any of the reality shows that many of the stereo-typical characters such as the blond bombshe...

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