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	Early Television Foundation
		The 2008 Early Television Convention will be held on May 2, 3 and 4 at the museum in Hilliard, Ohio.
		The 2007 Early Television Convention was held on May 4, 5 and 6 at the museum in Hilliard, Ohio.
		The Early Television Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of television receiving and camera equipment from the early days of television.
	www.earlytelevision.org (191 words)

	Encyclopedia: American television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Television was invented in the U.S. by Philo T. Farnsworth in 1927, but was not commercialized until the early 1940s, by RCA and CBS.
		Cable television (now often "cable" in name only — satellite broadcasts are increasingly important) became a force in the early '80s and has been growing in significance since that time.
		Digital television in all its forms is also changing the ways that the medium is used, allowing for greater content and higher-quality images, but production quality on some modern digital cable channels is often derided as nothing better than the no-budget cable access shows.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-television (4458 words)

	American Public Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Public Television (APT) is the largest of the television syndication distributors of programming for public television stations in the United States.
		It began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network and was the first distributor of shows such as The French Chef (with Julia Child), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Washington Week in Review to the rest of what was then National Educational Television (not yet PBS).
		They introduced the unedited Monty Python's Flying Circus to American audiences in 1975 (ABC had run censored versions in late night previously), and brought The Three Tenors to public television audiences in 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Public_Television (204 words)

	FCC V-Chip Fact Sheet, 7/1/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		American children spend an average of four hours a day watching television that is 28 hours a week, 2,400 hours a year and nearly 18,000 hours by the time they graduate from high school.
		American television is the most violent in the world.
		The National Television Violence Study identifies three primary effects TV violence has on children: 1) learning aggressive attitudes and behaviors; 2) becoming desensitized to real world violence; and 3) developing a fear of being victimized by violence.
	www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Factsheets/factvchip.html (347 words)

	Television in American Popular Culture
		Unfortunately, however, television is, so far, doomed to small areas and hence small markets, because at present, transmitters can broadcast their waves a distance of only 50 miles.
		In the ensuing decades, television would reach far more than 50% of the population, profits would far exceed investments, and consumers would be enthralled.
		Television not only "made it" after its debut at the World's Fair it has become an entrenched part of our culture; indeed, it only continues to grow and improve with, for example, the current release of high definition and the post-1980 explosion in cable channels.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /archive/tv/commercial_tv.htm (616 words)

	American Bandstand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Since the primary audience for television viewing in the late afternoons included teenagers just out of school for the day, the teen record party apparently made sense to station managers as a way to generate advertising revenue during that broadcast period.
		As the third television network, ABC could not afford the high-priced radio celebrity talent or live dramatic programming that generated the predominantly adult viewership of NBC and CBS.
		At that point, white, middle-class American youth culture moved away from the rock 'n' roll dance music that had become the staple of American Bandstand, opting instead for the drug-influenced psychedelia of the Vietnam War era.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/americanband/americanband.htm (1089 words)

	Television invades the American home -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		American rock group that played a prominent role in the emergence of the punk–new-wave movement.
		With Television's first single, “Little Johnny Jewel” (1975), and much-touted debut album, Marquee Moon (1977), the extended guitar solo found a place in a movement that generally rebelled against intricate musicianship.
		American Ballad: The Evolution of The American Ballad
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9341268 (880 words)

	American Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		There is a wasteland of channels and programs on American TV most of them treating you, the viewer, as stupid thus you are served an endless array of stupid programs.
		So many of American TV shows are trying to preach something to you or convert you to “their way of thinking” otherwise you will not make it in the world.
		That is what local television should be — a reflection of the majority of the society and not a promoter of thoughts of evil of a few distorted members of our society.
	www.neweuropeconcepts.com /american_television.htm (714 words)

	Resource: American Cinema
		The western is an American myth that has been translated by other cultures and reinterpreted time and again, but never dies.
		Critics and directors describe the evolution of these films, the rise of the Vietnam film, and the influence of the newsreel documentaries and TV news on the genre.
		Television first arrived in American homes just as the Hollywood studio system was collapsing.
	www.learner.org /resources/series67.html (810 words)

	A U. S. Television Chronology, 1875-1970 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The term television is coined by Constantin Perskyi at the International Electricity Congress, part of the 1900 Paris Exhibition (Tube: The Invention of Television by David E Fisher and Marshall Jon Fisher, p.
		British television pioneer John Logie Baird appears on WMCA radio to discuss a proposed television station to be operated jointly by his company and WMCA.
		First use of videotape in network television programming: CBS uses its first Ampex VTR to be installed at Television City, Los Angeles, to record the evening news (then anchored by Douglas Edwards) and in turn, feeds the tape to West Coast stations three hours later.
	members.aol.com /jeff560/chronotv.html (7311 words)

	Lance Loud! . An American Family \| PBS
		The broadcast of An American Family in 1973 proved to be a groundbreaking watershed that forever changed American television programming and led the way to more complex family portraits such as Roseanne, One Day At A Time and even The Simpsons.
		TV Guide magazine acknowledged An American Family as the first reality television series and named it among "The 50 Greatest Shows of All Time." Lance Loud, the eldest son of the family, was the first openly gay person to appear on television as an integral member of American family life.
		A Death in An American Family is a presentation of WETA and ITVS, and was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service.
	www.pbs.org /lanceloud/american (304 words)

	ScienceDaily Books : Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the project of recording its history, many viewed it as a light-weight literary task concerned mainly with 'entertainment' trivia.
		This is a story of television which begins seven decades earlier, when the first piece of the puzzle which would become television was unveiled: the telephone.
		This, Barnouw recognizes, is the birth of television, because it fired the imaginations of scientists and engineers, artists and entrepreneurs, and, perhaps most importantly,...
	www.sciencedaily.com /cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0195064844 (1615 words)

	Cold War, Cool Medium; Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Thomas Doherty
		For the study of this awkward period in America's television culture, it is hard to imagine a better text for discussions with students.
		Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the fllist and handmaiden to McCarthyism.
		To the unjaded viewership of Cold War America, the television set was not a harbinger of intellectual degradation and moral decay, but a thrilling new household appliance capable of bringing the wonders of the world directly into the home.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231129521.HTM (996 words)

	American History - 1950-1959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge making the new AFL-CIO an organization with 15 million members.
		television into their homes in greater numbers of hours per week than ever before.
		American Dance Theatre which featured all-fl casts and dance styles that were culturally based and truly American in style.
	kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade50.html (2972 words)

	American History: Television Timeline
		This medium was known as television, and while the war brought to a halt its chances of finding a widespread fan base, the years after World War II proved to be a springboard for this new medium; it was met immediately with a popularity unsurpassed in the entertainment and broadcast industries.
		Television, the medium presented to the country soon before the beginnings of war, had not been forgotten, only put aside to make room for more serious and nationally-centered issues.
		Throughout the sixty-plus years of American television history, many programs, including comedies, dramas, documentaries, and variety shows, have come and gone, victims of either poor ratings or network difficulties.
	nh.essortment.com /televisionhisto_rdwa.htm (1009 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> American Television, Situation Comedies
		While television sitcoms have shared with their dramatic television counterparts a reliance on "stock" stereotypical characterizations of queers as, alternatively, wispy and effeminate or gossipy and ruthlessly backstabbing men or flannel-shirt-wearing, humorless women, these representations are by no means uniform.
		There has, in fact, been a positive shift in the depiction of gay men and lesbians in television sitcoms, concurrent with both a change in social attitudes and a rise in openly queer television comedy writers and sitcom stars.
		Although most television sitcoms in the 1960s revolved around the well-established nuclear family motif, a discernible gay sensibility began making its presence known, however subtly, on the small screen.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/am_tv_sitcoms.html (748 words)

	Television: Bob Hope and American Variety (Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The variety show was a common format in early television, in part because many of the performers were vaudevillians with vast experience performing live on stage, and most early television was broadcast live.
		The sale of thousands of television sets in the late 1940s and early 1950s has been attributed to the vast popularity of the early TV variety show featuring vaudevillian Milton Berle.
		Although Hope had presided over television's inaugural West Coast broadcast in 1947, his NBC debut on April 9, 1950, was his first national television appearance.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/bobhope/tv.html (1222 words)

	glbtq >> Special Features >> American Television Part 2
		Michael Jeter (1952-2003) was a versatile character actor who played a wide variety of roles on stage, in movies, and on television. His television career included roles on Evening Shade, Sesame Street, and the PBS mini-series Tales of the City, which was based on the stories of Armistead Maupin.
		Liberace (1919-1987) steadfastly refused to acknowledge his homosexuality even though he was an icon of flamboyant camp. The Liberace Show was one of the most popular television shows of the mid-1950s and helped him develop a huge fan base.
		Ethel Waters (1896-1977) is perhaps best remembered for her award-winning performances as a film and television actress, though she was also a renowned Blues singer.
	www.glbtq.com /sfeatures/amtv2.html (559 words)

	Bill Moyers \| Television Journalist
		Two of his public television series, "Creativity" and "A Walk Through the 20th Century" were named the outstanding informational series by the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
		In addition to broadcasting, Moyers was Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration and special Assistant to President Johnson from 1963-1967.
		In the saga of American immigration, the Chinese experience is relatively unknown.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96jun/moyers.html (1169 words)

	African American Attorneys
		The African Americans portrayed on television are often inferior and unimportant characters, void of credibility.
		White, an African American judge, represents the pursuit of justice and professionalism in the face of emotion and racism.
		The current portrayal of African American attorneys in television and movies has improved in recent years but there is still a tremendous discrepancy between the portrayal of African American attorneys in film and television and the roles they actually play in society today.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/smithkhan22.htm (5015 words)

	Something Completely Different
		Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
		In addition to providing his close readings of the series themselves, Miller considers the networks' packaging of the programs for American viewers and the influences that led to their acceptance, including the American television industry's search for new advertising revenue and the creation of PBS.
		Miller convincingly argues that much of what came to define American television by 1980 was in fact British in origin, a contention that casts a new light on traditional discussions of American cultural imperialism.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/m/miller_something.html (361 words)

	Amazon.com: Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Long before television, long before the broadcasting era, some of their possibilities were glimpsed.
		This, Barnouw recognizes, is the birth of television, because it fired the imaginations of scientists and engineers, artists and entrepreneurs, and, perhaps most importantly, boys plowing fields with their horse teams.
		Television's greatest moments are here, and Barnouw does a excellent job of devoting appropriate amounts of time to each.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195064844?v=glance (1268 words)

	PRESS RELEASE American Television in Takeover Talks With First Pet Life, Announces The OTC Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		American Television in Takeover Talks With First Pet Life, Announces The OTC Report
		LAKE HARMONY, PA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/10/2005 -- The OTC Report recommends American Television and Film Company (OTC: ATFT), which recently announced today that it is in talks with First Pet Life about the possible acquisition of First Pet Life.
		American Television and Film Company develops feature films and television shows for worldwide distribution.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=88521 (384 words)

	American Public Television
		Join Burt Wolf for a trip to Boston where the American Revolution began in Burt Wolf: Taste of Freedom.
		Experience music history, including Janis Joplin's break-out performance, in Monterey Pop: The Summer of Love.
		American Public Television • 55 Summer Street Boston, MA info@aptonline.org
	www.aptonline.org (140 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> American Television, Drama
		Despite a steady increase in the number of "big screen" queer characters and queerly-themed movies, by comparison the overt presence of gays and lesbians on the American small screen has been, and continues to be, far more limited.
		Recently, however, television dramatic series such as NBC's ER and subscriber network Showtime's Queer As Folk have seen a noticeable rise in prominent and recurring queer characters.
		As Edward Alwood has explained, from 1968 to 1974 homosexuals on television were recognizable in programs such as Kojak, MAS*H, Police Woman, and Hawaii Five-O because of their routine representation as limp-wristed, effeminate drag queens who walked with a swish and talked in a high-pitched voice.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/am_tv_drama.html (753 words)

	Popular Culture -- TELEVISION
		Conventions of Television News Article by John Hartley briefly introducing analysis of the way formats and other conventions shape the content of television news programs.
		Reception, Identity, and the Global Village: Television in the Fourth World An approach to the problem of television as a potential force of cultural imperialism.
		Brilliant interpretation of the evolution of representations of African Americans in television news and fiction programming, from the 1980s to the present.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/pop/tele.html (965 words)

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