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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was: ✔Correct Answer-Canceled by CBS
What is one genre convention Dragnet established within the episodic police procedural?
✔Correct Answer-The ability of the cops to always solve the case in one episode
Which of the following is NOT a reason that television networks initially preferred live programming
during TV's earliest years? ✔Correct Answer-Live programs often were associated with New York
theater and high-brow culture (WRONG)
What was one of the most prominent effects Least Objectionable Programming had on narrative TV
shows in the 1950s? ✔Correct Answer-The suburban nuclear family became the ideal televisual
representation of family in order to please advertisers who specifically targeted the white middle
class.
Satire on U.S. television in the 1960s: ✔Correct Answer-Often espoused an anti-establishment
point of view
Red Channels was: ✔Correct Answer-A pamphlet that accused radio and television actors of being
communists
In the 1940s, the two television networks most competitive in the creation of television were:
✔Correct Answer-CBS and NBC
A show with a "single sponsor" is one that ✔Correct Answer-Has one advertiser that pays to
produce the show
The "Daisy" election ad was created by the presidential campaign for ✔Correct Answer-Johnson
(1964)
Which of the following is NOT an industrial element that broadcast television inherited from radio?
✔Correct Answer-The use of genres such as westerns, cop shows, and variety shows (WRONG)
The government body that regulates network television in the U.S. is the ✔Correct Answer-Federal
Communications Commission
Lasting twenty years, the CBS western, _______________
holds the record for the longest-running live-action series on American television. ✔Correct
Answer-Gunsmoke
Marty is an example of a(n) ______________ program that featured different stories with a different
set of characters every week ✔Correct Answer-Anthology Drama
In 1960, John F. Kennedy invoked the foundational mythology of the western in his ______________
speech. ✔Correct Answer-The New Frontier