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1
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When did tv emerge in homes?

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1950’s

2
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Who developed the first tube transmitting images using light converted electrons?

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Philo Farnsworth

3
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Where and when did TV make its first debut?

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Philadelphia (Franklin Institute) in 1935 by Philo Farnsworth

4
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When did the FCC adopt technical and ownership standards of TV in the US

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1941

5
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How many lines was TV Supposed to be and how many frames per second

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525

Thirty

6
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Between what years did the FCC new tv licence and why?

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1948 to 1952 and to set standards for ownership control

7
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In 1948 how many US Households had a tv?

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1%

8
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By 1960 how many homes had a tv?

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Over 90%

9
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When and where was the first TV Show Aired?

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In New York (At the World’s Fair) in 1939

10
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Who was Camel Cigarette branded by when shows had one soul sponsor?

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John Cameron Swayze

11
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TV in the 1940’s

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  • World war 2 shortages, conservation efforts stall broadcasts
  • Radio news moves to tv
  • FCC Fairness Doctrine requries TV to air conflicting views on important subjects
  • First CBS episode of ‘See it now’ Airs
  • Single corporate sponsors for news and entertainment shows
  • Radio Genres move to tv
  • CBS, NBC, and Dumont form
    • NBC and CBS do first newscast
  • FCC Freezes number of licence due to poor signals
  • Cost of tv $400 (1948)
12
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What Radio genres move to tv in the 1940’s

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Westerns, sitcoms, variety, quiz, and mystery

13
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What Radio themes move to tv in the 1940’s

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Upward mobility, assimilation and suburbanization

14
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What tragedy struck tv in the 1950’s

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in 1953 a Quiz show (Twenty One) rigged the game to increase drama and capture audiences. This destroyed the trustworthy and pure believe that tv had garnered

15
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TV in the 1950’s

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  • Woman are told that their voices are not authoritative enough to deliver news
    • Radio’s Pauline Frederick makes it to tv and reports on the UN
  • Quiz show scandal (1953)
  • Networks start selling time rather than shows to avoid commercial influence on content after scandal
  • ‘I love Lucy’ airs as first scripted show with live audience
  • FCC sets standards for compatible black and white color signals
16
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1960’s Network and Audience Peak

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  • 90% of US has TV
  • There are 600 stations
  • Major networks take control (NBC, CBS,ABC)
  • Broadcast journalism rises to top
  • Authority newscasters re-establish TV credibility (ie: Edward Murrow, Walter Conkite, Dan Rathers, David Brinkley, and Chet Huntley)
  • Anchors try to create familial tones by holding cigarette in hand or saying goodbye to do-anchor
17
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When was public broadcasting creates

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1967

18
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How much did Dan Rathers make to set the standard for national news commentators

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2.2 Million for 10 year contract

19
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By what time were there hundreds of more channels

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1980’s with cable

20
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1960’s Civil Rights, tech affects content

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  • FCC chair Newton Minow delivers famous ‘Vast Wasteland’ speech about poor programs containing senseless violence, mindless comedy and offensive advertising (1961)
21
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1970’s TV

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  • Authoritative figurehead mystique wanes
  • Family shows call for a simpler lost past
  • Variety of shows embrace youth culture
  • Socially relevant sitcoms challenge audiences
  • Viewership peaks by the end of this decade
  • Cable, satellite, home video machine and market, personal video recorders, TiVo and the internet give viewers more power. This reduced views
  • Major networks take a hit because government constricts network control
22
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1980’s - 2000’s

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  • Live cable coverage takes off CNN forms (1980)
  • Networks dominate despite competition
  • Creative financing
  • Independent producers
  • Product placement (cross marketing)
  • Syndication
23
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In the 1970’s how were networks hit by the new government regulations

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  • Lost right to program during first hour of prime time and to run their of syndicate companies
24
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What year was the right to own Syndicate companies restored?

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1995

25
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Define Syndication

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The licensing of multiple radio and TV stations to broadcast radio and TV programs without going through the broadcast network

26
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Define First-run syndication

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A broadcast that is made directly and first and foremost for sale through syndication

27
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DefineOff-Network Syndication

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A broadcast that was originally run on network TV or first-run syndication but has been given a license to be sold through syndication (ie: a rerun (usually found on smaller networks such a FOX))

28
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Define Public Broadcasting Syndication

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A broadcast that shares public broadcasting with other networks that compete with them on a small scale

29
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TV 2000’s to Present

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  • Innovation

- Online Presence (Social media)

30
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The Multi-Screen Experience

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  • TV and the internet working together (Smart TV)
  • Different viewing
  • Screen size flexible to lifestyle
  • Control of content flow - Touch responsive
  • Tailored to consumer habits
31
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Power of the Audience

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  • Empowered Viewers
  • Willing to engage
  • Create ecosystem of interactive media with TV
  • Care about the new TV
  • Bottom up influence
  • Ultimate collaboration of Producer and consumer (make shows together)
32
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A New Dimension

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  • 3D Technology (eventually no glasses, all senses)
  • Immersive response
  • Need content, hardware, broadcast, distribution (as in past)
  • Video games setting standard
33
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Evolution of Advertising

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  • Creating deeper relationships through interaction
  • Prime time viewing remains important
  • Large audiences still appreciate TV shows
  • Social media happens simultaneously
  • Attractive targeted viewers
  • Targeting consumers
  • Good storytelling/ content is KEY
34
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Future Programming Trends

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  • Subject matter becoming more personalized
  • Reality TV in more dramatic situations
  • Bigger spectacles while still being more personal
  • Projects that can be branded
  • Repurpose content to fit Gen Y’s expectations
  • Be entertaining and insightful
  • Shop while you watch
  • Cross Marketing
  • Augmented Reality
35
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Whats Next for TV

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  • Tech Changes
  • OLED
  • AI
  • Interface with Mobile Devices
  • Pulls together favorite interfaces
  • More flashy ideas
  • Holograms?
36
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Novelty, or Development, Stage

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When pioneers tried to make TV work through Airwaves

37
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Entrepreneurial Stage

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When innovators tried to find a marketable use for TV

38
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Mass Medium Stage

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When businesses tried to figure out how to market the device as a consumer product

39
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Oral and Written Communication

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  • Written word was an innovation and there was resistance to it
  • In a broad sense media is any manmade interference between humans
  • Plato promoted the value of speech to guide the formation of opinions about subject matter
40
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Printed Communication

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  • From the elite to the common people
  • Invention of printing press and the mass printing of the Bible paved the way for major social and cultural changes by transmitting knowledge across national boundaries and stimulating the rise of the middle class
41
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When was the printing press made

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1450

42
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Electronic and Digital Communication

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  • The telegraph made communication instantaneous, changing information into a commodity and planting seed for this form of communication
  • Never had the power of mass media been greater to promote the sharing or contesting of cultural values of American Society.
  • This is the most immediate and pervasive mass message
43
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Define Genre

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  • A category of artistic expression characterized by a particular form or content
44
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How do genres affect TV

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Provide framework for marketing, programming, distribution and advertising

45
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Define Derivative

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Imitated, adapted, borrowed from, like another, drawn from

46
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Are genres derivatives or original

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Derivatives

47
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How can genres be exhausted/

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Over saturation in the market

48
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What are some main genre categories

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  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Nature
  • News
  • Children
  • Romance
  • SCIFI
    …etc
49
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Mid Spectrum Genre Television

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  • Sports
  • Variety Shows
  • Morning Television
  • Animal and Nature Shows
  • Game Shows
  • Competition TV
  • Reality TV
50
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Define Subgenre

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Smaller, more niche oriented classifications of larger genres categories

51
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Why television Loves hybrids

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  • Greater potential for longevity
  • Greater appeal to wider audience
  • Increase the diversity of cast and characters
  • Increase story diversity
  • Increase the marketing potential
  • Cross promotional
  • Profit
52
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Define Voyeurism

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The compulsion to seek (sexual) gratification by secretly looking at (sexual) objects or acts.

53
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Social TV

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  • Tech surrounding TV that promotes communication and social interaction related to program content
  • Watching TV while engaging in real time communication and interactivity with shows
  • Not a ratings system, but a vastly expanding and important institutional system critical in the evaluation of audiences, content and data
54
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Define Interactive TV

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Lets views interact with the set

55
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Define Social TV

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Lets Viewers interact with other people watching in different locations

56
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Define Smart TV

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Hardware providing the interactive TV experience

57
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Convergence

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  • Internet meshing with TV
  • TV becoming as social as computers
  • Inserting social media into TV
  • Can refer to previously separated communication tech such as voice data and video
  • With convergence these distinct areas of communication and media now share resources and interact with each other synergistically
  • Saves money and consolidates resources (ie: journalism)
58
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Social Evoluation

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  • Google TV (2010)
    • Social exchange about shows and videos
  • Twitter (2011)
    • Interaction of millions
    • Sometimes shows base decision off viewers advice
  • Get Glue (2012)
    • Let viewers check into favorite shows, music and more
  • More recently
    • Netflix, hulu, DirecTV… etc
59
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Convergence and Audiences

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  • Combined resources can increase the quality and quantity of a media product
    • Results in increased customer satisfaction
    • Leads to a larger audience, increased convenience, increased breadth of info, better experience for audience, audience may choose which media platform to access for content
60
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Convergence and visibility

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  • Cross promotion
  • Extra content
  • Logos and advertising increase exposure
  • Increased exposure of other media within an org. or media outlit
61
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Convergence and the Future

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  • Tech is the driving force
  • Computers and tech decrease in size while increasing in speed and capability
  • Faster and larger converged websites as “goto” hotspots for all media, bypassing older and outdated forms of delivery such as traditional TV
62
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How many corporations owned all of media in 1983?

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50

63
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What year did Reagan deregulate media ownership?

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1983

64
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What was the Cable Act

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  • 1984
  • Originally cable was used to boost weak local signals and create “Community Access Television” or “Public Access Television”
  • Pre-empted local regulation and nationalized or regionalized the cable system into large corporate franchises.
65
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Telecommunications Act of 1996

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  • Amended the communications act of 1934
  • Title 3 allowed ‘media cross ownership.” This had a big impact on cable and emerging wireless
  • According to FCC, the goal of the law: “to let anyone enter the communications business - to let any communications business compete in any market against any other.”
  • The legislation’s primary goal was deregulation of the converging broadcast and telecom markets
66
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Todays Impact of the Telecommunications Act

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  • Created corporate behemoths that control most of what we watch hear and read
  • They own TV networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses..etc
67
Q

How many corporations owned the media in 2011

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6 controlled 90% of media

68
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Who were the big 6?

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NBC Universal/Comcast, Disney, 21st Century Fox/News Corp/Rupert Murdoch, Time Warner, CBS Corporation, VIACOM`

69
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How can we control the Future of TV

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  • Not Passive media consumers
  • Analyze every frame, every word and every edit for meaning
  • We are active and assertive
70
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Advertising

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  • Keystone in consumer economy, in a democracy and in mass media
  • Relies on mass media as a vehicle for delivering messages to consumers and the marketplace
71
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Advertising History 1468

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William Caxton promoted a book with the first printed advertisement

72
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Advertising History 1704

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John Campbell included advertisements in the Boston News-Letter

73
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Advertising History 1833

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Benjamin Day created the New York Sun as a combination news and advertising vehicle

74
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Advertising History 1869

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Wayland Ayer opened the first advertising agency in Philadelphia - N.W. Ayer and Son

75
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Advertising History 1910

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Edward Bok of Ladies Home Journal established a magazine advertising code

76
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Advertising History 1914

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Congress created the FTC to combat unfair advertising

77
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Advertising History 1929

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NBC established a code of acceptable advertising

78
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Advertising History 1942

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Media industries created a predecessor to a ad-media-business association called the Ad Council

79
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Advertising History 1960’s

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Network Television surpasses magazines as a national ad medium

80
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Advertising History 1980’s

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Ad industry consolidates in mergers and acquisitions

81
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Advertising History 2003

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Store brands emerged as major challenge to brand names

82
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Advertising History 2004

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Thirty Second spot on television Super Bowl reached $2.5 million in cost

83
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July 1, 1941

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First TV ad was broadcaster

  • Bulova
  • NBC affiliate WNBT
  • Baseball game
  • $9
84
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How to put an ad together

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  • Branding
  • Logos
  • Packaging
  • Positioning
  • Repetition
  • Gimmicks
  • Memorability
85
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Define Branding

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An association created in the mind of the viewer between a company and an idea

86
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What types of Positioning are there

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Hard Sell and Soft Sell

87
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Gimmicks and Subliminal Ads

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  • Consumers are encouraged to buy what appeals to their senses, emotions, or unconscious assumptions
  • Subliminal Advertising secretly, sneakily and under the radar, slips in suggestive images, words, ideas into advertisements.
88
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Memorable Ads
Info vs Emotion
Persuasive vs Emotion
Info vs Emotion

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  • Informative > Emotive
  • Emotion > Persuasive
  • Emotion > Information
89
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What percentage of people are interested in ad blocking tech

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69%

90
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Three forces for advertising

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Famous person testimonial, association and building of myths

91
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Association

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  • Media message creator associated a product with a seemingly positive cultural value of image