Adjusting with our Antennas
What was watched and the way it watcehd 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
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Adjusting with our Antennas
The Early Realities of TV
Reality TV is more popular than ever but it is nothing new. It was there from the beginning of full TV schedules, and BAF explores the precursor shows such as Candid Camera and People are Funny that introduced the comedy of practical jokes on real people. Then the real stories of women during the 50s and 60s decades to become Queen for a Day and the beginning of relationship shows with The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. An American Family took a look at the everyday lives of a real American family in the 1970s. These were just some of the programs that greased the platform of what reality TV has become today.
