Television News
- “Nightly News broadcasts in the early days of America took off to a relatively slow start.” – compared to almost any other television genre
- These News programs drew on two major influences from older media:
- Broadcast radio news – the way americans viewed the Great Depression and Cold War
- Theatrical Newreels – advertising on radio and admission prices for newsreels
- Television carried over with them a set of conventions that was adopted by Broadcast radio delivered by an announcer
- Authorative voice, read stories from news paper and wire services
- Live on location in the 30s and 40s also became very popular, allowing listeners to listen as the stories were unfolding. (Radio, not television)
- News station relied on licensing film footage
Early News Television
- Most Television Shower were single sponsor programs 1950’s NBC’s nightly news report “The Esse Television Reporter”, “Camwell NewsReal Theater”, wasn’t till the 50’s, where they would create there own news programs, and switch to a multi-sponsored company.
Politically
- The rise of television news after world war II coincided with the beginnings of the cold war. The nightly news was clearly on the side of the capitialists, and the emergence of the consumer society
- Reporting in foreign affairs “Is this country on our side or the enemys side”
- 50’s – the radio and movie industry was continuing to come to a decline but the television news industry kept attracting American viewers giving the viewers knowledge of what was happening around the world
- Technological Innovation (new cameras) made it easier and more possible
News Televison Strategy
- In the beginning networks kept pouring more and more money into there news divisions, even though they were not receiving any profits
- Also they would entice there viewers to dedicate there evenings to watching one single news station as opposed to numerous.
- Over time news stations would become very profitable
- Viewed major impacts of the day e.g white American violence on African Americans.
- Civil Rights movement with the help of TV awareness.
Televised Vietnam War
- The three major networks would televise the first war that did not end in victory for the U.S informing the Americans at war how the battle was going
- Conservative Americans still blame the media for it’s defeat and argue that the American public could not handle the truth.
- Main Lesson learned by American military must watch out for free flows of information that can upset the army.
- Governments set restrictions for reporters
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