Adjusting with our Antennas
What was watched and the way it was watched on TV has presented a significant impact on the medium's influcence over time. Join the lifelong television enthusiast identified as the frequency BAF in a journey through various decades of that medium where the reception came from the antenna. The episodes cover shows, genres, personalities and how not just antennas but how audiences have received them through the airwaves over time.
Produced by Benjamin Fronczek
Our Theme Song: Good Ol Days - 2024 Remaster by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.
Adjusting with our Antennas
Latest Episodes
Television and the Bicentennial
With the approach of the America's semiquincentennial (250 years), BAF takes a look back at the Bicentennial celebration in 1976 and the role televison played not just that on Sunday, July 4th of that year but months even years before.
Appealing Through Our Antennas
With all the different types of programming the television brought, fund raising played a part and so entered the telethon. Addressing many charitable causes including medical research, support for arts and culture, and hunger relief, BAF explo...
Tuning in to Celebrate with the Celebrities
In the 1950s, awards shows started being televised. Beginning with the Academy Awards (or Oscars) and continuing with the Emmys, Grammys, and ultimately Tonys these programs celebrating achievement in Cinema, Television, Music, and Stage laid t...
The Sunday That Became More Super - Special Bonus Edition
Revisiting bonus coverage through The Prime Time Players introduced last year, BAF presents special bonus content from last year's Super Bowl history episode that covers the evolution and emergence of America's championship game. The e...
How Soap Commercials Turned to Melodrama
The soap commercials first from the radio then television aired during daytime hours, eventually forming a genre known as soap opera and extending into Prime Time. BAF interviews podcaster James Lott, Jr. of JLJ Media, tapping into Lott's exten...
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