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Russian Immigrant who came to America at 9.
ii. Hero was inventor of radio.
iii. Incredible self-promoter
iv. Saw radio as an entertainment outlet
v. Wrote “Music Box” to lay out future of radio.
vi. Created NBC |
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| Bought CBS and built it from the ground up in 1927 |
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Lucy’s husband
iv. Shot on film |
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| Creator of Monday night football. |
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| DGA - Directors Guild of America |
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| SAG - Screen Actors Guild |
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| WGA -- Writers Guild of America |
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| AFTRA - The American Federation of Television and Radio Artist |
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| International Alliance of Theatricl Stage Employs |
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| NABET - National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians |
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| National Labor Relations Act |
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1935 - Cant fire people from unions
Created NLRB, National Labor and Relations Board |
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| AMPTP (Association of Motion Pictures of Producers and Televisions Producers) |
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a. Co-created 40 series
b. 450 Scripts |
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| One point had a 3rd of ABCs schedule |
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a. News Corp
b. FBC
i. 1986 |
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| in TV jargon, it means the profit to be made on a TV show by selling it beyond its original airing (and one repeat) on a network |
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| Each segment of the 24 hour broadcast day is referred to as a daypart. For instance, 8 pm to 11 pm is prime time. Other day parts include fringe, early fringe, late night, etc. |
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| a sum paid to a producer or production company to secure services to develop a future project. |
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| also known as “fringe benefits”; refers to contractual costs above and beyond simple salary incurred by hiring cast and crew such as pension and health & welfare benefit contributions. |
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| stands for “households using television”; it’s expressed numerically as the percent of households using TV at a given moment out of the entire population of U.S. households that own a TV, i.e. if fifty percent of homes that own TVs are watching TV on a Thursday night at 8 p.m., then Thursday at 8 has a HUT level of 50. |
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| The fee a network pays a producer for each episode of a series; or, in sports, what the network pays for the rights to broadcast the games (NBA, NFL, MLB, college sports, etc.) |
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| A policy, developed by the FCC in the 1960s and codified by Congress in 1992, requiring cable systems to carry the analog signal of a local television station if that broadcaster so chooses |
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| Stands for owned and operated; refers to a TV station that is owned and operated by a network. |
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| a deal with a writer, producer, or director for a lump sum of money over a specific period of time, with specified charges for each service provided that are tallied against the overall guaranteed amount |
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| A fee paid to agents or their agency for putting together or delivering the key creative talent elements of a TV show. The fee is a percentage of the weekly license fee of the show. |
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| in the TV and film world a point is one percent of the eventual profits reaped by a project. If a person has “ten points” of a TV show, it means he is contractually entitled to ten percent of the profits from that show |
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| credits that imply sole or dominant authorship of a project, |
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| the percentage of viewing households whose sets are tuned into a broadcast |
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| A script written on speculation with no guaranteed sale |
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| A contract arrangement for a project based on predetermined steps such as outline, first draft, revised draft, etc. |
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| the weeks during the year (February, May, July, November) when audience measurements are used to set advertising rates |
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