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In television programming, the hours between 8 and 11 p.m. when networks have traditionally drawn their largest audiences and charged their highest advertising rates.
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A recording that is made by capturing the fluctuations of the original sound wayes and storing those signals on records or casettes as a continuous stream of magnetism - analogous to the actual sound.
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Music recorded and played back by laser beam rather than by needle or magnetic tape.
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Very High Frequency - in broadcasting, the band in the electromagnetic spectrum that the FCC allocated for TV channels 2 through 13.
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Ultra High Frequency - in broadcasting, the band in the electromagnetic spectrum that the FCC allocated for TV channels 14 through 69.
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Radio or TV stations that, though independently owned, sign a contract to be part of a network and receive money to carry the network's programs; in exchange, the network reserves time slots, which it sells to national advertisers.
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a TV news program format, pioneered by CBS's 60 Minutes in the late 1960's, that features multiple segments in an hour-long episode, usually ranging from a celebrity or political feature story to a hard-hitting investigative report.
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a 1950s technique for preserving television broadcasts by using a film camera to record a live TV show off a studio monitor.
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Short television comedy skits that are usually segments of TV variety shows; sometimes known as vaudeo, the marriage of vaudville and audio.
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A type of comedy series that features a crurring cast and set as well as several narrative scenes; each episode establishes a situation, complicates it, develops increasing confusion among its characters, and then resolves the complications.
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A TV hybrid of the sitcom in which characters and settings are usually more important than complicated situations; it generally features a domestic problem or work issue that characters have to solve.
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A popular form of early TV programming that brough live dramatic theater to televison; influenced by stage plays, anthologies offered new teleplays, casts, directors, writers, and sets from week to week.
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A narrative form well suited to television because main characters appear every week, sets and locales remain the same, and technical crews stay with the program; episodic series feature new adventure each week, but a handful of characters emerge with whom viewers can regularly identify.
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Any situation comedy or dramatic program whose narrative structure includes self-contained stories that feature a problem, a series of conflicts, and a resolution from week to week.
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Radio or TV programs that feature continuing story lines from day to day or week to week.
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The showing of programs five days a week.
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1950s to 1970s when the Big Three Networks - ABC, NBC, and CBS - dominated. The era began eroding with the decline in viewing and with the development of VCRs, cable, and new TV networks.
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