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The start of MTV (Music Television) and the invention of CD, cassettes, boom boxes, and the Walkman in the 1980s revolutionized and popularized the music industry. The MTV catalyzed the shift of focus from music and lyrics to fashion, theatrics, and image. Celebrity gossip became a prominent factor in daily life as stars were remodeled into brands. New music genres also snatched the popular stage, including pop, hip hop, new wave, and hair metal. Known as the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson was

television began in 1948 with Allen Funt's Candid Camera, which featured the filming of real people as they reacted to annoying situations concocted by the show's creators." (Maasik and Solomon) Next PBS launched reality television shows, followed by MTV. Today a popular reality television show is 16 and Pregnant. It is an American reality television show that aired since 2009. This reality television show portrays the stories of high school teenage pregnant girls and the challenges that they go through

contribution from an Australian television shows called "Countdown" and "Sounds" which were both premiered in 1974. They helped make music videos popular in many countries. The director of "Countdown" also created the first music video to ever be air on MTV called "Video Killed The Radio Star" in 1981. That influenced them to create a 24 hour a day music channel. During the 1980s a lot of artist started creating promotional videos for their fans to see. In the 1980s all the directors worked towards making

Final Research: American Reality Show Vs. British Reality Show There was a war between Great Britain and America that ended a long time ago. Today these two cultures use this historical event as an excuse to argue about two shows on MTV. When the time a person floating the enormous database of Internet, it is often seen particular situations between ‘historical’ emotions still hits up the conversation. The hatred still causes an emotional war between people from two countries. This time, it takes

the island, one by one, until only the sole survivor remained. He or she would walk away with $1 million. My initial reaction to this news was horror. "What is the world coming to?" I thought. TV executives have become so desperate as to risk the lives of ordinary people simply for the ratings. There must be some law against that. How could they get away with something as absurd as stranding 16 people on some remote tropical island with no food or protection? But of course, nothing is as

Television and reality shows have somehow become part of our everyday lives and made characters household names throughout the entire world. Networks that endorse these shows spend countless hours and money to try and depict a normal day and grab the watchers attention so the viewer not only relates to that person and our group of people, but also the viewer wants to know more about the individual and in some weird way live through these experiences by watching these shows . Usually there is a even

The development of music videos throughout many years has changed rapidly due to the relationship between media forms and platforms of different media kind of texts. Some issues in contemporary music videos are from the evolution of new technologies, social media and politics. Thus, artists throughout time have taken advantage of music videos in order to use it as a site for debates about politics of representation. Nowadays the majority of music videos are transforming and turning into short films

African Americans but a true look into a way of life that many of us will never see or come in contact with. We see it everyday on MTV and BET, young artists speaking their minds about getting rich off criminal activities that seem to boost there popularity among

Desperate Advertisers Call for Desperate Measures Check out the boobs over here, the television beckons from the other side of the room. With all the choices available on television today, television distributors are desperate to gain the attention of audiences. In order to get advertising revenue televisions shows tap into some of our basic desires to gain our attention and loyalty. Depending on the viewer, these tactics could be having a negative impact on the viewer beyond the original intent

Analysis of Gorillaz, “Feel Good Inc” (2005) Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett stumbled upon the concept of Gorillaz while they were watching MTV in their apartment; the duo found themselves growing weary of the formulaic, commercialized, uncreative, and empty format of the pop music that they were listening to. In the words of Albarn and Hewlett, “if you watch MTV for too long, it's a bit like hell - there's nothing of substance there...We're the generation whose stars come from Pop Idol and celebrity-wrestling