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American Cultural History Part I: Television

American Cultural History Part I: Television . When you think of pop culture of the 90’s what comes to mind?. Television . Reached 98% of the households in the U.S. in 1998 Average viewer spending 7 hours a day watching 'the tube'.

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American Cultural History Part I: Television

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  1. American Cultural History Part I: Television

  2. When you think of pop culture of the 90’s what comes to mind?

  3. Television • Reached 98% of the households in the U.S. in 1998 • Average viewer spending 7 hours a day watching 'the tube'. • 1996, the television industry announced a  TV Parental Guideline rating system.

  4. Cable • Cable Television would produce Networks like CNN,TNN,TNT,CSPAN,ESPN,the Shopping Network. • And if you were looking for movies, networks like HBO • wanted music, all you had to do was tune into networks like The Nashville Network(TNN) or MTV.

  5. News or New Magazines Shows • 60 minutes • 20/20 • Dateline NBC • CNN – live coverage of the 1991 Gulf War

  6. "15 Minutes of Fame Decade" • Media Frenzy • O.J. Simpson • Monica Lewinsky • Princess Diana

  7. Talk Shows • The most popular television talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show took the high ground in the explosion of talk shows in the 1990s. • Focused on • Personal empowerment, social activism and books

  8. Guests came on talk shows voluntarily to air their grievances; reveal deep, dark secrets; or be reunited with mysterious people from their pasts. • According to many guests, producers often tried to whip them into a frenzy before they went on the air. • The resultant televised emotional outbursts proved entertaining for audiences and took hosts such as Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer to the top of daytime television.

  9. Hot Topic: Do you consider themes in these T.V. shows as “pushing the envelope” today? • Crude Behavior • South Park • Sexual themes • Friends • Foul Language • NYPD Blue • Sexual Orientation • Ellen and Will and Grace

  10. 10 Most Popular Shows of the Decades • Cheers • 60 Minutes • Home Improvement • Seinfeld • E.R.

  11. Touched by an Angel • Friends • Veronica's Closet • NFL Monday Night Football • Frasier

  12. The Simpsons (1989 - ) • Becomes popular with adult audiences, eventually paving the way for many adult-oriented animatedtelevision shows throughout the next 10 years, including Beavis and Butthead, South Park, Family Guy and King of the Hill.

  13. Nickelodeon gains popularity with the Nicktoons block of shows, such as Doug, Rugrats, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life

  14. Television shows involving human interaction with dangerous wildlife become popular. Most notably shows like The Crocodile Hunter, a popular series starring Steve Irwin, which began airing in 1996. The Crocodile Hunter, and other similar shows (many of which involved Steve Irwin) remained popular into the 2000s.

  15. Full House (1987 – 1995) • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990 - 1996) Family Matters (1989 – 1998) • Boy Meets World (1993 – 2000 • Smart Guy (1997 – 1999) • Sister, Sister (1994 – 1999) • Dawsons Creek (1998-2003) • 7th Heaven (1996-2006)

  16. Television would literally explode with new programs as people wanted more and more reality TV • “The Real World” • 1992

  17. “The Real World ______” • "This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped. Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. The Real World, Austin."

  18. MTV originally  soap opera, but the costs were too high, so they thought "what if we could get rid of writers, and scripts, and sets?". • Resulted on the first Real World, set in NY neighborhood of SoHo, Manhattan, • Where 7 people that had never met before had to live in a house together for some time.

  19. The year 2000 • Mark Burnett create a legacy with a show called "Survivor".

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