CI5472 Teaching Film, Television, and Media
Module 10: Studying the News ~ Television and Radio News
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National television news has developed over time from only a 15 minute broadcast in the 1950s to their current 30-minute broadcasts. Some local news broadcasts are now one to two hours in large markets. Cable news networks broadcast 24 hours a day. |
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As previously noted, the “re-mediation” of television (Bolter & Guerin, 2000) has meant that television news has increasingly incorporated the look of a computer screen with a running black bar along the bottom of the screen with news headlines and multiple-windows on the same screen. |
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Some critics argue that the increased amount of news broadcasting has not necessarily improved the quality and substantive nature of the news. Having to fill 20 hours a day, often means that the “news” includes a lot of stories on health, media celebrities, cooking, travel, consumer products, etc. |
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Cable television news broadcasts, many of whom are facing financial difficulties, often dramatize events such as the Gulf War, the O. J. Simpson trial, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and other such events in a non-stop, dramatic manner. These portrayals serve to lure viewers away from the more traditional network news by providing continuous coverage, in many cases, about superficial, non-significant matters. |
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Students can study older version of the news by going to the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University. This site contains thousands of broadcast clips that can be searched through a database search. Access is free, but registration is required. |
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TV news is also varies according to the time of day in which
they broadcast their news related to when their audiences are most
likely to be viewing. One
study at Ball State's Center for Media Design conducted in 2003
based on observations, diaries, and phone interviews, found that
audiences prefer to view news in the morning, a shift from previous
decades in which audiences preferred to view evening news. The study
also found that the average audience viewed 94 minutes of news daily;
audiences older than 35 were viewing three times the amount of news
than audiences 18 to 34 and four times as much television news as
adolescents. |
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Click here for a site on television news history included in a site on all aspects of the news created by three female adolescents, Nico Juser, Rosa Victorio, and Caroline Van Ness. |
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Television News Development | |
