Television News

Examples of Television News in the following topics:

• Television News

  • A news bulletin or newscast is a television program that provides updates on world, national, or local news events.
  • Television news refers to disseminating current events via the medium of television.
  • Television news is very image-based, showing video of many of the events that are reported.
  • Television channels may provide news bulletins as part of a regularly scheduled news program.
  • Less often, television shows may be interrupted or replaced by breaking news ("news flashes") to provide news updates on current or sudden events of great importance.

• Journalists

  • Broadcast journalism is journalism published through the radio, the television, or the Internet.
  • Television news is considered by many to be the most influential medium for journalism.
  • Television journalism viewership has become fragmented due to the emergence of 24-hour cable news channels such as Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980 and Fox News Channel as well as MSNBC in the 1990s.
  • This person may perform electronic news gathering (ENG) as well as a compile the script for a news bulletin with a television producer.
  • Prior to the television era, radio broadcasts often mixed news with opinion and each presenter strove for a distinctive style.

• Television

  • CBS 's New York City station W2XAB began broadcasting its first regular seven days a week television schedule on July 21, 1931, with a 60-line electromechanical system.
  • RCA and its subsidiary NBC demonstrated in New York City a 343-line electronic television broadcast, with live and film segments, to its licensees on July 7, 1936, and made its first public demonstration to the press on November 6.
  • By June 1939, regularly scheduled 441-line electronic television broadcasts were available in New York City and Los Angeles, and by November on General Electric's station in Schenectady.
  • The FCC saw television ready for commercial licensing, and the first such licenses were issued to NBC and CBS owned stations in New York on July 1, 1941, followed by Philco's station WPTZ in Philadelphia.
  • Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television, was performed on December 24, 1951 at the NBC studios in New York City, where it was telecast as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

• Introduction

  • If you read any newspaper or watch television, or use the Internet, you will see statistical information.
  • Typically, when you read a newspaper article or watch a news program on television, you are given sample information.

• Technological Advancement

  • By 1947, when there were 40 million radios in the U.S., there were about 44,000 television sets (with probably 30,000 in the New York area).
  • Regular network television broadcasts began on NBC on a three-station network linking New York with the Capital District and Philadelphia in 1944; on the DuMont Television Network in 1946, and on CBS and ABC in 1948.
  • Following the rapid rise of television after the war, the Federal Communications Commission was flooded with applications for television station licenses.
  • The television industry's National Television System Committee(NTSC) developed a color television system based on RCA technology that was compatible with existing black and white receivers, and commercial color broadcasts reappeared in 1953.
  • New technologies also revolutionized surgery procedures.

• Campaigning: Traditional Media, New Media, and Campaign Advertisements

  • Campaigns seek to engage the public through traditional forms of media, such as television and the press, and more recently, social media.
  • With the advent of television, TV reporters were sent to cover elections.
  • President Obama's efforts to reach out through new media are credited with bringing in the support of young Americans and contributing to his 2008 victory .
  • But even with the rise of new media, campaigns continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying air time on television networks to put on campaign advertisements.
  • Television ads have been popular because they are an effective way to reach millions of voters at once.

• Video Art

  • Video art came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as new technology began to become available outside corporate broadcasting for the production of moving image work.
  • Prior to the introduction of this new technology, moving image production was only available to the consumer by way of eight or sixteen millimeter film.
  • An installation of nine television screens, Wipe Cycle combined live images of gallery visitors, found footage from commercial television, and shots from pre-recorded tapes.
  • Another representative piece, Joan Jonas' Vertical Roll, involved recording previously-recorded material of Jonas dancing while playing the videos back on a television, resulting in a layered and complex representation of mediation.
  • Single-channel works are much closer to the conventional idea of television in that a video is screened, projected or shown as a single image.

• Organization and Ownership of the Media

  • The music and television industries recently witnessed cases of media consolidation when SONY Music Entertainment's parent company merged their music division with Bertelsmann AG's BMG to form Sony BMG.
  • In the case of Sony BMG, there was a "Big Five" (now "Big Four") conglomerate of major record companies, while The CW's creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the "Big Four" of American television (this was despite the fact that The CW was, in fact, partially owned by CBS, one of the "Big Four").
  • In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by nine corporations: News Corporation (the Fox family of channels), The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands), CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast (which includes the NBC brands), Time Warner, Discovery Communications, EW Scripps television, or some combination thereof (including the aforementioned The CW as well as A&E networks, which is a consortium of Comcast and Disney, ).
  • The similar market structure exists for television broadcasting, cable systems, and newspaper industries, all of which are characterized by the existence of large-scale owners.

• Television Debates

  • Televised debates have become an important aspect of every presidential election.
  • With an estimated 70 million viewers watching, the first Kennedy-Nixon debate demonstrated the impact of this new medium.
  • Televised debates were a major factor again in 1980.
  • The Kennedy-Nixon debate of 1960 was the first televised presidential debate.
  • Name three key moments in the history of televised presidential debates

• How has the invention and use of television affected our everyday lives?

  • Where did they get their news?
  • Television has influenced my social life in college in a profound way.
  • Television is a big part of our society's social interaction today.
  • We settled finally with seven televisions and one projector with television capabilities.
  • As I grew through the "channel boom" and adopted a new favorite each year, I typically found the shows I watched to influence my behavior in that era.