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Perhaps an increase of TV technology, or alternately, a greater interest in TV broadcasting led to something like this.
I've always wondered why noone in the 60+ years of American TV broadcasting ever had the idea of filming shows live from Chicago so that everyone in the lower 48 could see the shows in real time...
I've also decided to add this to my earlier mini essays over promotion and relegation in American sports leauges and transportation. There's also going to be no Fox in this timeline.
Would a TV industry with more players early on result in some networks looking at alternate sports to cover?
I'm thinking perhaps stations that miss out on American Football, Baseball, Basketball & Ice Hockey may want to chance their arm with Soccer or Rugby (in a pitch to the immigrant population initially..?)
If this happens in the early days of televised sport, it could have major implications - not just for US sport...
I can see four major television networks with the survive of DBA (DuMont Broadcasting Agency) and maybe a earlier PBS said the early 50's. With PBS becoming an American BBC.
Also, how about international networks? While I doubt Canada or Mexico would ever allow ABC/CBS/NBC affiliates (though I heard the San Diego Fox affiliate is technically in Tijuana),
Altering this thread a bit, how about regional networks in addition to the OTL national networks?
I wonder if its possible for television signals to be transmitted in frequencies around that of AM radio, with skywave propagation. If so, you could really expand the reception area after sunset. Then, you could easily just have a regional broadcast station, with a station in Chicago being received from Buffalo to Sioux Falls.
I wonder if its possible for television signals to be transmitted in frequencies around that of AM radio, with skywave propagation. If so, you could really expand the reception area after sunset. Then, you could easily just have a regional broadcast station, with a station in Chicago being received from Buffalo to Sioux Falls.
I don't think so. the best that could be done is put a couple of (analog) channels between 30-60MHZ. During WWII the FM band was down around 42-50MHZ and there was some long distance reception of FM stations (in the 1941 FM Band). to add, every 11 years, any station transmitting between 30-60 MHZ take on shortwave characteristic (due to the solar cycle).
That was the standard for dramatic TV of all kinds until the late '50s, & soaps were 30min as late as the late '70s. (I know, my mom was a big fan of "Edge of Night", & it was 30min.) "Dragnet" was 30min for all its first-generation run. So was "Adam 12". So was "Highway Patrol".Half hour soap operas? What sort of story line can be told within 24 minutes or less?! Your vision is clouded unless the show was to be shown a half hour every night.
Half hour soap operas? What sort of story line can be told within 24 minutes or less?! Your vision is clouded unless the show was to be shown a half hour every night. However, one could be showing remakes of Flash Gordon with a cliffhanger at the end of each show in order tempt the viewers back next week. However I don't see the plots being too complicated.
Its [Rede Globo's] productions are split into three different categories, according to the airtime:
- at 6PM (novela das seis), stories are romantic and family-oriented (like Cabocla or Sinhá Moça). No violence, sex or bad language (with a few exceptions) and plenty of historic and religious themes.
- at 7PM (novela das sete) they broadcast comedy plots, filled with action, humour and romance (with a considerable amount of implicit sex). This is the schedule in which new writers are tested. Plots tend to be more experimental but themes are usually repetitive.
- at 9PM (known as novela das oito, or 8PM soap, but never broadcast at 8PM, the earliest known time was 8:30PM) plots tend to be more formulaic, but a wider range of themes are explored. These productions include action, romantism and humour and usually last longer than the others. These are the productions with the highest ratings. These categories became widely adopted by most television companies in Brazil.
Didn't somebody already post something like this once?
I think "Broadcasting Agency" doesn't sound right.