FAMST 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Communications Act Of 1934, Broadcast License, Sitaonair
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Quiz show scandals: late 1950s, behind-the-scenes manipulations. Never violated any laws: prompted amendments to be added to federal communications act in 1960. Made it illegal for outcomes of quiz shows or other televised shows of skill/knowledge to be planned in advance. After they produced a show, tv networks and stations sold individual slots for commercials to several advertisers. Tv industry renewed effort to recover the government mandated licensing requirement to carefully serve the american people and operate honestly in their public interest: era = "the classical era of network television" Historiography and tv history: theoretical concept of historiography. There is no tv history, only tv "histories" Each historian works from a different perspective, according to their own interests, perspectives, and ideologies. Any history is an interpretation of events of the past. Assess the evidence used to support the interpretation. Interpretations depend on historians" personal definitions of terms.
