Television S01E04 · News Power

Overview

Continuing the worldwide history of the medium, this programme moves on to television news, tracing its development from the first TV news in America in the forties to today's high-powered satellite broadcasts. (Daily Telegraph)

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1. 1 1. Visions of Power1985-02-12 · 45mA look at the way that TV affects and manipulates viewers.
2. 2 2. The Race for Television1985-02-19 · 45mGoes back to TV's earliest flickering beginnings, in the first primitive TV camera built by the eccentric Scots inventor John Logie Baird - whose previous triumph had been the inde
3. 3 3. We Bring You Live Pictures1985-02-26 · 45mThe development and impact of outside broadcasts and live coverage of news, sport and pageantry. Peter Dimmock, then in charge of OBs at the BBC, recalls how the coronation in 1953
4. 4 4. News Power1985-03-05 · 45mContinuing the worldwide history of the medium, this programme moves on to television news, tracing its development from the first TV news in America in the forties to today's high
5. 5 5. News: The Power of Pictures1985-03-12 · 45mLooks at the awesome ability of on-screen images to evoke a massive public response, as with the pictures of the starving children of Biafra in 1968; to shape the nature of the res
6. 6 6. The Story Machine1985-03-19 · 45mFrom news to fiction as the series moves behind the scenes to look at how some of the most popular drama series are produced, what they cost and how they came about. Hollywood is t
7. 7 7. Play Power1985-03-26 · 45mConsiders TV drama and the practical influence, if any, of such controversial landmarks as the BBC's post-war "1984" and ITV's "Armchair Theatre" and the later drama-documentaries
8. 8 8. The Rise and Fall of the Documentary1985-04-02 · 45mAfter 30 years of recording every human problem, every aspect of the natural world, has the TV documentary run out of steam - and themes? And for all its work in informing millions
9. 9 9. Chewing Gum for the Eyes1985-04-09 · 45mFocusing on light entertainment, from variety to quiz and game shows, from chat shows to pop videos, with samples garnished from, among other countries, Britain, America, Brazil, R
10. 10 10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly1985-04-16 · 45mAn examination of the beneficial effects of television, its help in education, its power to broaden the horizons of its audience, and then - the other side of the coin - its possib
11. 11 11. Canned Laughter1985-04-23 · 45mThe history and development of television comedy is examined, from its origins in American vaudeville and radio shows, through the social comment sit-coms to the ultimate send-ups
12. 12 12. The Selling of the President1985-04-30 · 45mThe medium's revolutionary effect on the business of electioneering around the world, with politicians being taught how to maximise their television appeal, and image replacing iss
13. 13 13. The Third Age of Broadcasting1985-04-30 · 45mLooks to the medium's future in a satellite and cable world where the viewer may be spoilt for choice in terms of quantity of channels. But what of the quality of programmes, of st