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Is Broadcast TV Done and Over? Or is it Just Awards Shows?

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Ralph Hanson

Last evening I was reading reading CNN’s Brian Stelter’s nightly media news newsletter that had just shown up in my mailbox. The lead story was about how television habits have changed during the pandemic. Stelter notes that one of the … Continue reading →

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Katie Couric leaves “mainstream media” for…. mainstream media?

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

You would be hard pressed to find anyone in the media business more mainstream that news anchor/personality Katie Couric.  She represents everything that characterizes legacy media.  She’s had interviews with all the big stars from Hollywood to D.C. She’s a … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 9 – What Is Television?

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

(Before we get started, I know I misspelled satellite on the white board this morning.  Get over it…) This morning in my Global Media Literacy class I asked my students a fairly simple question: What is television? The answers that … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

How are News Corp. and the Fox Group doing post corporate split? Better than expected.  Bigger is increasingly not necessarily better. Is there more than one standard of beauty out there? Increasingly, it looks like the answer is “Yes.”  British … Continue reading →

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How Univision is Making NBC Look Bad – What The Latest Ratings Tell Us

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

While I was growing up, when talking about television, we always talked about the Big Three broadcast networks: NBC, CBS, and ABC.  Sure there were the PBS stations out there, but they were small and non-commercial.  So no one really … Continue reading →

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