Antenna's reviewers give A-F grades to ABC
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Tags: ABC, Blood and Oil, Dr. Ken, Fall Premieres, pilots, premieres, Quantico, Reviews, The Muppets
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Mark Lashley discusses "Fuller House" and the current trend of resurrected television nostalgia, and how the notion of television as an ephemeral or disposable media form is diminishing.
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Tags: ABC, Arrested Development, Brady Bunch, cultural memory, Full House, Fuller House, Mad Men, Netflix, nostalgia, reboot, reruns, television, The Muppets, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Wet Hot American Summer
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The most consequential TV newsfilm of the 20th century records the beating of voting rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. It led directly to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act. With the 50th anniversary commemorations of “Bloody Sunday,” network and cable news channels...
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Tags: ABC, Ava DuVernay, Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ferguson, Nazis, race, Selma, television, Voting Rights Act
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In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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Tags: ABC, CES, digital media, Dragon's Den, entrepreneurship, Mark Cuban, media aesthetics, Reviver, Shark Tank, Silicon Valley, StartUp, technology, television
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Antenna contributors review ABC's Fall lineup.
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Tags: ABC, black-ish, Cristela, Fall Premieres, Forever, How to Get Away With Murder, Manhattan Love Story, pilots, premieres, Selfie
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The hub for Antenna fall pilot season reviews.
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Tags: ABC, CBS, CW, Fall Premieres, FOX, NBC, pilots, premieres
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On the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, this post considers how fictional depictions of Kennedy represent history and engage cultural memory.
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Tags: ABC, cold war, Greg Kinnear, historical TV, JFK, Martin Sheen, National Geographic, NBC, Patrick Dempsey, Rob Lowe, The History Channel, The Kennedys
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An examination of the JFK assassination news coverage suggests that the networks did a woeful job in the early hours, but that a local third-rated ABC affiliate provided remarkable journalism that not only helped ABC scoop NBC and CBS, but also foreshadowed the future of TV news.
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Tags: ABC, Dallas, JFK assassination, news media, WFAA, Zapruder
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Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the alphabet network.
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Tags: ABC, Back in the Game, Betrayal, Fall 2013, Fall TV, Lucky 7, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, premieres, Review, Super Fun Night, The Goldbergs, Trophy Wife, TV
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Prospect Park’s soap opera strategy tests traditional conceptions of televisual value within an evolving space of digital distribution.
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Tags: ABC, All My Children, digital distribution, Hulu, Hulu Plus, iTunes, One Life to Live, Prospect Park, Soap Operas, television, Value
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Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Tags: A&E, ABC, Academy Awards, Billboard, Cablevision, CBS, copyright, DirecTV, Dish Network, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, Kickstarter, music, piracy, PlayStation, Sony, television, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, visual effects, YouTube
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As we bid farewell to Don’t Trust the B, we also bid farewell to a part of gay black visibility on network television. Luther was a character written in a mold that has (problematically) been deemed passé and disrespectful to the middle class, married/coupled, suburban model of gay televisibility. And for that, we should...
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Tags: ABC, Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, GLAAD, James Van Der Beek, Modern Family, negative stereotypes, Partners, Ray Ford, Richard Dyer, The New Normal
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Despite hard times and dire predictions for U.S. daytime soap operas in recent years, the present moment has in fact turned out to be one of the more exciting and promising in the genre's history.
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Tags: ABC, All My Children, daytime TV, General Hospital, Guiding Light, Media Convergence, niche audiences, One Life to Live, Oprah Winfrey, Prospect Park, soap opera, The OnLine Network, web TV
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While winners and losers may speak most directly to television's hierarchies, the Emmy telecast itself offers a space in which broadcast networks can reshape prevailing discourses of quality within the television industry.
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Tags: 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, ABC, award shows, broadcast, cable, Emmys, Showtime
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