https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archive-blog/2023/08/09/archive-senior-studio-projectionist-jim-smith-retires

This is one of the things that doesn't seem to be being explored enough presently, or at least I'm not seeing it outside of the SAG and WGA strikes where it seems to be a side issue rather than a primary issue.

Jerry Springer, former Cincinnati mayor and talk show host, dead at 79 by Lisa Respers France, Marianne Garvey

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https://try.lingopie.com/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/tech-etymology-tv-clicker/236965/

Origin story of cable television

An electronics store needed a way to demonstrate the capabilities of television sets, but was in a valley that prevented line-of-site access to a transmitter.

Engaging advertisements on Facebook benefit from lower acquisition costs because the Facebook algorithm rewards more interesting advertisements with lower CPMs and wider distribution. This is done, as all things surveillance capitalism driven, to keep eyeballs on Facebook.

This isn't too dissimilar to large cable networks that provide free high quality advertising to mass manufacturers in late night slots. The network generally can't sell all of their advertising inventory, particularly in low viewing hours, so they'll offer free or incredibly cheap commercial rates to their bigger buyers (like Coca-Cola or McDonalds, for example) to fill space and have more professional looking advertisements between the low quality advertisements from local mom and pop stores and the "as seen on TV" spots. These higher quality commercials help keep the audience engaged and prevents viewers from changing the channel.

Je trouve que la comparaison avec la télévision n'est pas complètement juste. En effet, les professeurs ne donnaient pas des recherche a faire avec la télévision, ce n'étaient pas une source d'accès a la connaissance. Aujourd'hui il faut être préparé a faire des recherches, a chercher l'information. L'usage d'internet est bien plus stimulant que de regarder la télévision.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/05/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man

Starting with reality television, everything seems to have become entertainment. Social media has accelerated this.

The idea that "making is showbusiness" is an interesting label for this.

We also have "manufacturing"; when will we have digufacturing?

GDELT Summary: Television Explorer: hydroxychloroquine AND (Station:CNN OR Station:FOXNEWS OR Station:MSNBC) AND PublicationDate>=3/1/2020. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/summary/summary?d=iatv&t=summary&k=hydroxychloroquine+&ts=custom&sdt=20200301000000&fs=station%3ACNN&fs=station%3AFOXNEWS&fs=station%3AMSNBC&svt=zoom&swvt=zoom&ssc=yes&sshc=yes&swc=yes&stcl=yes&c=1

Misinformation Alerts - Public Health Communications Collaborative. (n.d.). Public Health Communication Collaborative. Retrieved September 24, 2021, from https://publichealthcollaborative.org/misinformation-alerts/

Don’t sit to close to the television. The old way of thinking and now to much screen time can have an effect on your mental health.

The house wife watching her soap opera wail doing chores. Family’s finding ways to schedule time around television. One rule in my house hold all of the homework had to be done before watching TV.

We go to theaters to see plays. But with movies, TV show and Vlogs on YouTube there are more ways to tell a story. I would argue it’s not cheap entertainment it’s a new way of story telling

Op-Ed: How Not to Message the Public on COVID Vaccines | MedPage Today. (n.d.). Retrieved May 26, 2021, from https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/92704

This is an important point that many miss about art.

Seguin, D., Kuenzel, E., Morton, J. B., & Duerden, E. (2021). School’s out: Parenting stress and screen time use in school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5guc3

Finally the sort of competition that Trump can understand: it's a ratings race!

Need to go back and watch more of these early shows!