1. TELEVISION IS CULTURE IS COMMUNICATION
COMN 3393

2. Agenda
Exam protocol
Exam Prep
Lecture

3. EXAM PROTOCOL 1 hr and 50 min (110 min)
It is easier for us to linger than it is for us to start at 2:30 so the exam will start at exactly 2:35 and End at 4:25, we will hand out the exams at 2:30.
As soon as exams are being handed out must be silent and honor academic integrity.
Exam books will be provided
Make sure to identify self, questions you are answering, etc

4. Exam prep Things to review on Website Review the videos available
Review the lectures available: Up to and including the idea of “histories of television”
Review the readings available
Review the syllabus

5. Exam prep Exam prep sheet READINGS: Lectures: BROAD STROKES
BROAD STROKES – Be ready with the basic and key content of the readings not the minutia
Have the author’s and titles of the articles sorted in your mind – especially so you can use them in an essay
Lectures: BROAD STROKES
LYNN SPIGEL’S WORK: LECTURE AND READING
FLOW
ICON’S BINARIES
TELEVISION STUDIES
SPACE RACE AND NATIONAL IDENITITY
EARLY TELEVISION IN ITS RELATIONSHIPS WITH CULTURE

6. Exam prep Things to review on Website Review the videos available
Review the lectures available
Review the readings available
Review the syllabus

7. Histories of Television
Three videos we have watched in last few weeks:
Magic Time: A history of Canadian Television (1994)
Discovery channel: History of Television (1996)
The History of Television (1998), Mc Graw Hill
BBC: History of Television
Germany
Viewing Matrix

8. Today’s Lecture
The problem of “a” history of television: no one history
The norm and viewing matrix
The boundaries of technology
The boundaries of nation
The boundaries of “the times”

9. MAGIC Time
Video on the history of television: Very few Canadian histories of television
Why?
What is distinctive?

10. Influences on Canadian TelevisionUS
BBC
CAN

11. Influences on Canadian TelevisionUS
BBC

12. Influences on Canadian Television
BBC
Longest history
Strong Programs
Strong Program Range
History of Connection

13. Influences on Canadian Television
BBC
Longest history
Strong Programs
Strong Program Range
History of Connection
WHY Doesn’t the BBC become the dominant influence on Canadian television in its development?

14. Influences on Canadian Television
BBC
Longest history
Strong Programs
Strong Program Range
History of Connection
Does the BBC have a political influence on Canadian television especially in it early development

15. Influences on Canadian Television
BBC
Longest history
Strong Programs
Strong Program Range
History of Connection

16. Influences on Canadian TelevisionUS
Brief history
Strong Programs
Border Technology
Influences
Cheaper to import
Why does Canada resist US television, why not just “adopt” it?

17. Canadian Television Two strong national influences BBC & U S
BBC (and other European) Public
US (Commercial)
How does this affect Canadian Television

18. CULTURAL DEVELOPEMENT INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT
LOCATION
TECHNOLOGY
NEARNESS
CULTURAL DEVELOPEMENT
INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT

19. How do some histories get “normalized” and others disappear?
How does US identity appear and Canadian identity disappear?

20. How do some histories get “normalized” and others disappear?
How does US identity appear and Canadian identity disappear?
How does US identity appear and Russian identity disappear?

21. How do some histories get “normalized” and others disappear?
DOMINANT CULTURES
How does US identity appear and Russian identity disappear?

22. How do some histories get “normalized” and others disappear?
DOMINANT CULTURES
HOW DO CULTURES COME TO DOMINATE?
HOW DO CULTURES COME TO DOMINATE HISTORIES

23. How do some histories get “normalized” and others disappear?
DOMINANT CULTURES
HOW DO CULTURES COME TO DOMINATE TELEVISION?
HOW DO CULTURES COME TO DOMINATE HISTORIES