Broadcast Television Assignment

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TU4022--Telecommunications, Distance Learning, and Collaborative Interchange (3)

Teachers College, Columbia University
Fall Term 1995

Watch at least three from among the following and elaborate as suggested below:
  • CNN - 20 minutes of regular news coverage
  • A&E Biography - at least one episode
  • Network or ESPN: Professional Football or Baseball game
  • MTV - 20 minutes (you can take it!) of music videos
  • Identify what it is about the segment or show that capitalizes on broadcast television as a medium to make the presentation particularly effective and attractive to some audience. You may wish to consult the class web page for possible ideas about which characteristics of video you wish to emphasize. In particular you should point out why these kinds of presentations are particularly effective in their use of the medium. You should also discuss in the context of this brief exercise what weaknesses of television these same presentations suggests, either by what they leave out or by the way they treat the subjects they do cover.

    Individual assignment. approximately two pages in length. Name the segments you are discussing and the length of time you watched them.

    Due date: September 26 class meeting.