Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: Long-Lasting Baby Boomer Memories of the JFK assassination 30 Nov 202330 Nov 2023 Forged and Sustained by Four Days of Television “All of us who knew him will bear the grief of his death until the day of ours.”-Adlai Stevenson, US Ambassador to…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: Can’t Unsee it 18 Sep 202315 Sep 2023 The Viewer Society Individuals commonly use the expression "I remember exactly where I was…" when recounting their memories of significant breaking news events like the assassination of President Kennedy, the…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: How a ‘Bald, Fat White Guy’ Texas Sportscaster Became a Viral Moral Compass 21 Aug 202314 Aug 2023 A deeper look at Sportscaster Dale Hansen Throughout his four-decade career in Dallas, iconic sportscaster Dale Hansen was often called bombastic and arrogant. He called himself a “male chauvinistic pig”…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: The Pedagogy of Public Broadcasting 26 Jul 202326 Jul 2023 Examining the Partnership of Educational Television in American Classrooms In 1952, the Federal Communications Commission issued the Sixth Report and Order, allocating more than 200 high-frequency television channels for educational…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: Live Television Changed the Way We Saw the World 19 Jun 20234 Jul 2023 How television changed the cultural landscape Joe Saltzman Television news started out as the bastard child of radio news and the film newsreel, and it was almost immediately disowned by…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: The Intersectionality of Race and Power in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 15 May 202315 Dec 2024 How Fred Rogers and François Clemmons led with Compassion Following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s April 4, 1968 assassination, U.S. cities erupted in violent civil unrest. African Americans’ social oppression reached its…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: TV Cigar-Store Indians: Test Patterns, Ads, and ‘Whiting Out’ History 17 Apr 202315 Apr 2023 "Those who tell the stories rule the world," Hopi Nation proverb Television tapped into our human hunger for stories. Like earlier forms of media, TV’s narratives told us who we…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: Profits and the ‘public interest’: The impact of deregulation and local TV news 20 Mar 202314 Mar 2023 The Decline of Local News Engagement with the Public Journalism in the United States has experienced a tremendous erosion in trust over the past 50 years (Gallup, n.d.). However, local…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: Trumpism and Television 21 Feb 202317 Feb 2023 Television facilitates a politics of feeling from Nixon to trump “Trumpism” is, among other things, a feeling, an emotion, a worldview, rather than a coherent set of policy positions, and…
Broadcast History Series Series Introduction: Broadcast Media History 26 Jan 202326 Jan 2023 In July 2022, we placed a call for our fifth annual essay series, exploring the history and importance of television over the last 60 years. The impetus for this essay…
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