Do Now: Create a list of 7-10 of your favorite TV stations in your notebook (3-5 min.)
These are the various parts of the TV industry:
1. Commercial Broadcast Television – A “for profit” television station that sends its signal via a transmitter tower through the air. The signal is free and anyone with an antenna can pick it up, although now it is all digital. Example: local NBC station.
2. Subscriber Television – Fee for service programming where customers pay scheduled fees based on the selected programming package. Example: MTV and HBO.
3. Educational Television – Aims to inform the public on general topics and is usually non-profit. Example: PBS.
4. Industrial Television – Communicates relevant information to a specific audience. Training examples may include tapes that teach workers how to operate specific computer software.
5. Closed Circuit Television – Sent through wires and serves only an extremely small, private, predetermined area. Ex: High school television broadcasts.
6. Television Network – A corporation that bundles a collection of programs (sports, news, entertainment) and makes those bundles available to its affiliates. Example: FOX and its collection of television shows and broadcasts (like NFL football.)
7. Affiliate – Broadcast station that has aligned itself with a particular network. The typical contract between an affiliate station and the network stipulates that the network provides a certain number of hours of daily programming. Example – WNYW, Fox News.
8. Syndicated – Process of making a specified number of program episodes available for “lease” after the network’s contract for the show expires. Various types of programs are available for syndication including talk shows, game shows, cooking shows and children’s shows. Example: Saved by the Bell, Friends, Old sit-coms, etc. still air on many stations despite being canceled for years.
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