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Affiliates
local television stations that have made agreements (affiliations) with a network to broadcast programmers offered by that network rather than another.
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Balance
The requirement in television news and current affairs to present both sides of an argument or issue.
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Class
A section of society defined by their relationship to economic activity wether as workers (the working class) or possessors of economic power (the bourgeoisies), for example.
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Conspicuous consumption
The purchase, use, and display of particular goods and services in excess of those needs for subsistence as a means of outwardly demonstrating one's superior wealth, class, and social status.
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Documentary
a form aiming to record actual events, often an explanatory purpose to analyze and debate an issue.
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Doucusoap
a television form combining dramatized storytelling with the ‘objective’ informational techniques of documentary. Abbreviated as ‘dramadoc’ or docudrama’
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media literacy
the skills and competence that viewers that viewers learn in order to understand easily the audio-visual ‘languages’ of media texts.
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Merchandising
the sale of products associated with a television program, such as toys, books and clothing.
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Network
a television institution that transmits programs through local or regional broadcasting stations that are owned by or affiliated to that institution
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outsourcing
obtaining services from an independent business rather tan from within a television institution usually as a means of cutting costs.
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public servie television
the provision of a mix of programs that inform, educate and entertain in ways that encourage the betterment of audiences and society in general.
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realism
the aim for presentations to produce reality faithfully, and the ways this is done.
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Reality TV
programs wehre unscripted performance of 'ordinary people' is the focus of interest.
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Syndication
the sale of programs for regional television broadcasters to transmit with their territory.
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uplink
the electronic system which beams television signals from the ground to a satellite for onward transmission of a television institution elsewhere.
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