1. Television and Society

2. Criteria for Comedy Humor is an intellectual exercise Humor is an intellectual exercise Humor is human Humor is human Humor is mechanical Humor is mechanical There must be an established set of human or social norms There must be an established set of human or social norms Humor violates those norms Humor violates those norms The audience must perceive those violations are harmless The audience must perceive those violations are harmless

3. Humor is an intellectual exercise

4. Humor is human

5. Humor is mechanical

6. There must be a set of social or human norms that the audience is intimately familiar with

7. Humor violates the norms

8. The audience perceives the joke as harmless

9. The importance of knowing all this

10. Early Television

11. Era of Experimentation Used formats from radio Used formats from radio Musical shows Musical shows Interview shows Interview shows Dramas Dramas Soap operas Soap operas comedies comedies

12. Typical shows Musical variety Musical variety Talent Scouts Talent Scouts Arthur Godfrey and His Friends Arthur Godfrey and His Friends The Fred Waring Show The Fred Waring Show The Frank Sinatra Show The Frank Sinatra Show Small scale sports Small scale sports Boxing Boxing Wrestling Wrestling

13. Live Drama Ford Theatre Ford Theatre Philco Television Playhouse Philco Television Playhouse Studio One Studio One Kraft Television Theater Kraft Television Theater Armstrong Circle Theatre Armstrong Circle Theatre Sponsorships Sponsorships

15. 12 Angry Men

16. Leave It to Beaver

17. Hopalong Cassidy / Roy Rogers / Gene Autry

18. Wyatt Earp / Bat Masterson / Cheyenne

19. Gunsmoke – 1955-75

20. Have Gun, Will Travel

21. Wanted – Dead or Alive

22. The Rifleman

23. Hotel de Paree

24. Yancy Derringer

25. Maverick

26. Bonanza – 1959-73

27. Joe McCarthy

29. The 1960s

30. The Andy Griffith Show – 1960

32. The Beverly Hillbillies – 1962

33. Petticoat Junction – 1963

34. Green Acres – 1965

35. Camp Runamuck / The Flying Nun Gilligan’s Island

36. My Mother the Car

37. The 1970s

38. The Mary Tyler Moore Show -- 1970

39. All in the Family – 1971

40. M*A*S*H – 1972

41. Walter Cronkite

42. The Waltons

43. Three’s Company -- 1977

44. Barney Miller – 1975

45. One Day at a Time – 1975

46. The 1980s

47. Magnum P.I. / Buck Rogers

48. Hill Street Blues – 1981

49. Dallas

50. The Cosby Show – 1984

51. Roseanne – 1988

52. Married…with Children – 1987

53. The Simpsons – 1989

54. Rocky and Bullwinkle

55. Psycho

57. The Rise of Cable Invented by John Walson in 1948 to bring TV to places that couldn’t receive broadcast signals Invented by John Walson in 1948 to bring TV to places that couldn’t receive broadcast signals FCC restricted it to prevent competition with broadcast stations until 1972 FCC restricted it to prevent competition with broadcast stations until 1972 HBO started in 1972 – first network to use satellite instead of phone lines to deliver content HBO started in 1972 – first network to use satellite instead of phone lines to deliver content Cable Act of 1984 – cable restrictions lifted and new networks could start Cable Act of 1984 – cable restrictions lifted and new networks could start

58. Sister, Sister

59. Will and Grace -- 1999

60. Sex and the City – 1998

61. Friends

62. TV and Money

63. A TV show can cost millions of dollars a week to produce The only way to recoup that money is for a series to go into syndication Individual stations pay for the right to re-air a show that had previously been shown on a network Need enough episodes to be able to “strip” the show

64. Reality (really?)

66. TV Journalism

67. Comes in two flavors Local news Standard format Big local and regional stories Major national stories Weather Sports Puff piece Part of their licensing agreement for public service

68. Comes in two flavors National news Gives national and international news Ends with a puff piece History Each network had an evening news show only 15 minutes, later expanded to 30 minutes 1980 – Ted Turner begins CNN, the first 24 hour news network

69. Characteristics of TV new Shortform Shallow Emotional

77. Characteristics of news to consider News is personalized News is personalized News is fragmented News is fragmented News is normalized News is normalized