Television Essays

DirecTV (DTV) provides a high quality digital satellite broadcasting service to subscribers in the United States and Latin American geographic markets. DirecTV’s business strategy revolves around product differentiation, therefore the company focuses on the ability to offer a large variety of channels and services, including up to 1800 standard channels, …

Television has become the most popular kind of media all over the world. Most people, who watch too much TV for different kinds of reasons, do not know nor care about the effects that may happen to them. Nowdays, the majority of people over the world spend more than five …

Sitcoms – situation comedies – are probably the most “American” of all TV formats. They convey a high degree of viewer identification, as they show scenes of everyday American life. If the viewer identifies with the series, is the series representative to the viewing society? I will try to elaborate …

Many have argued that the US popular culture is at the forefront of globalization, so much so that globalization can largely be viewed as the spread of American culture. So does an item’s history and origin make it inevitably American? No item is inevitably American, but most people believe that …

TV may be a form of entertainment for many people, but some people say it ruins families. The essay “Primal Screen” by Ellen Goodman and the short story “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury both examine the negative aspects of TV on families and society as a whole. Goodman uses a …

Television today has become an essential and important media for business, news, entertainment etc. while it was a mere source of education and curiosity when it came into being. Television has been revolutionized with the application of satellite technology; variety of channels from different countries can be viewed at our …

A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient, while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism, he gives a brief history of …

It is literally known on media entertainment that sex and violence were there. Whereas people who enjoyed it will release their tensions and aggression . Highly sexual TV shows and intensely violent Web sites and video games may be affecting teenagers’ behavior, according to three studies published in Pediatrics. Sex …

Introduction: This report is about the Educational television, its concepts, effect, limitations and basic procedures in using this as a strategy. This also includes its concept in the Philippine setting. Highlights: * Educational Television or Learning show * It is the use of television programs in teaching the students. * …

In a study done by the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital that today’s children spend more time watching TV (15,000 hours) than they do in school (11,000 hours). Children’s fascination with television has been a concern for researchers, parents, educators and others dealing with children’s …