Mary Jackson Pitts, Ph.D.

mpitts@astate.edu

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Television

•      World’s Fair 1939

•      Philo Farnsworth

•      NTSC ( National television systems committee) (1930s-present)

•      VHF   2-13

•      UHF   14-69

Television

•       NTSC

    525 scan lines

•       Color television

•       VCR

•       30 Frames per second

•       HDTV

–    1125

•       Digital

Television

•      TV Freeze

•       Sponsorship

•      Quiz show scandal

–    $64,000 Question

•        News

Television

•       Programming trends

 Television

•     Ratings

•     Homes Tuned to Program A

–  Homes with Television

 Television

•     Share

•     Homes Watching Program A

–  Homes using Television

 Television

•      News Programming

Television

•       Entertainment programming

–    I love Lucy

–    The sitcom

–    sketch comedy

•    Carol Burnett

•    Barbara Mandrell

•      Situation comedy

•      Drama

Television

•        Episodic Series

–    Magnum P.I

–    Star Trek

Television

•        Public television

–     Funding

–    PEG

Television

•      Pro-Social

•      Anti-Social