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Jun 16, 2024
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MDIA 2162 - History of Prime Time Television II
Continuation of MDIA 2161. Focus is on the expansion of our broadcast networks through the additions of public broadcasting, cable networks, the creation of new distribution platforms (e.g. Fox CNBC, UPN, MSNBC, and the cable-satellite networks), as well as exploration of the future potential for a television-Internet convergence.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - 1. Students will continue their historical survey of network television production, genre expansion, technological developments, programming strategies and the newly expanded broadcast-cable-satellite-Internet mediascape.
- 2. Students will focus on the manner in which media conglomeration has expanded channels, while increasing duplicative programming.
- 3. Students will be ableto construct a post-Telecommunications Act of 1996 overview of the changes wrought by the expansive regulatory act-the last of the 20th century’s broadcast regulations.
- 4. Utilizing an auto-ethnographic approach, students will contextualize their media use within the current mediascape-projecting the impact of social networks, web-based production-distribution upon their expanding ability to produce and receive.
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