Short television comedy skits that are usually segments of TV variety shows; sometimes known as 'vaudeo,' the marriage of vaudeville and video

In television programming, the hours between 7-11 P.M. (or 7-10 P.M. in the Midwest), when networks have traditionally drawn their largest audiences and charged their highest advertising rates.

A type of comedy series that features a recurring cast and set as well as several narrative scenes; each episode establishes a situation, complicates it, develops increasing confusion among its characters, and then resolves the complications

The period in television history, roughly from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, that refers to the dominance of the Big Three networks- ABC, CBS, & NBC- over programming and prime-time viewing habits; the era began eroding with a decline in viewing and with the development of VCRs, cable, and new TV networks

A type of television program that packages human-interest and celebrity stories in TV news style

An early model in mass communication research that attempted to explain media effects by arguing that the media shoot their powerful effects directly into unsuspecting or weak audiences and change existing attitudes/beliefs.

Before the days of videotape, a 1950s technique for preserving television broadcasts by using a film camera to record a live TV show off a studio monitor; Developed by Zworykin.

A cable-television service that allows customers to select a particular movie for a fee, or to pay $25 to $40 for a special one-time event.

In media economics, an organizational structure in which a few firms control most of an industry’s production and distribution resources