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Past fictional television has tended to portray doctors in an extremely positive manner, while more recent fictional programming appears to portray physicians less positively. Based on Pfau, Mullen, and Garrow's (1995) suggestion that exposure to television's newer medical shows may lead to more negative feelings toward doctors, the present study examined the relationship between exposure to these and other fictional and nonfictional genres and perceptions of physicians. Results indicate negative relationships between exposure to prime-time doctor shows and perceptions, supporting Pfau et al.'s prediction. Exposure to television news magazines, network news, and talk shows also predicted perceptions of physicians., Early research on television's portrayals of medical doctors indicates that television presents physicians in a very positive manner (Gerbner, Gross, Morgan, & Signorielli, 1981; Gerbner, Morgan, & Signorielli, 1982; Kalisch [...]

They wear American-flag pins on their lapels. They call terrorists 'terrorists.' They say their news reporting is 'fair and balanced.' They offer a bigger variety of viewpoints than any other [...]

How the synergy between Hollywood and Publishers Row developed (sometimes) Tolstoy, shown a short, primitive movie, wrote: 'You will see that this little clicking contraption with the revolving handle will [...]

Margins have been cut in half Schedule profitability versus ratings Operational skills are becoming key Europe's commercial television broadcasters are learning to their cost that structural advantage is not all [...]

By REED E. HUNDT, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission Delivered Before the International Radio and Television Society, New York, New York, October 19, 1994 THANK you, Peter Lund, for that kind [...]

MIAMI It's tough going it alone. Over the past year, Spanish-lingo programming distribs in the Americas inked co-production deals, other alliances and snapped up formats with a vengeance, a trend [...]

You had to pity him. Tim Russert, NBC's showman, pitchman and newsman in Washington, was smiling across from Steve Forbes, whose implausible Presidential candidacy Russert had been hawking on Meet [...]

Writing about television in a magazine that already publishes the elegant thoughts of James Martin, S.J., on the subject is fraught with peril, but I will proceed apace. From my [...]

IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT to discuss the past year of television without first addressing the effects of Sept. 11 on the medium. Initially, pundits foresaw a dramatically altered post-9/11 TV [...]

Ten months ago, when jeff zucker became president of NBC Entertainment, he did not expect to be held responsible for the death of quality television. ''I've destroyed everything,'' he says [...]

Mark D. Harmon [*] Abstract Video news releases are an important public relations tactic, but use by television stations is difficult to evaluate. While electronic tracking exists, data are rarely [...]

Historical dramas lord it over primetime fare SEOUL Kings and queens of ancient Korea rule primetime TV: All four broadcasters are showing historical dramas, and as each show airs twice [...]

Some people may think that television viewing in China is only for the wealthy and privileged. They are wrong. Television viewing in China is catching up to the U.S. in [...]

MEDIA PERSON KNOWS THAT SOME OF you have been so glued to the news lately that you've been unable to keep up with your viewing duties in the entertainment sector. [...]

THE OLYMPIC SONG HAS ended and we hope the malady doesn't linger on. With Sydney, Australia being 15 time zones removed, the TV network decided to feed the action to [...]

Independent producers can become television's creative power house, but only if we treat them right. Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a television channel. [...]

Heard the buzz about the upcoming TV season? If so, congratulations: You're about the only one who has. While bitching about just how bad the new fall shows look is [...]

Regulaciones, Normas del Gobierno, Desregulacion... [Upside down question mark ]Quien los quien y quien no? Las regulaciones son deseadas par aquellas personas que han perdido su empleo coma resultada de [...]

Broadcasters report weak projections for fourth-quarter revenue, but 2000 is more rosy. Buyers are going in early and often to avoid Olympics and political inventory [...]

First-quarter scatter buying picked up last week; bulk of the business is expected to be done by [...]

With the elections, the Olympics and the census, spot TV in 2000 could be the strongest ever Whatever broadcasters may think about George W. Bush's ambiguous drug usage or Al [...]

The Italian press was ready for the results of what a survey called 'mammoni,' people who live with their mothers even at the ripe old age of 40. But it [...]

You could tell Henry VIII (ITV) was going to be a hoot from the beginning, when Joss Ackland, playing the dying Henry VII in a two-line cameo role, told his [...]

In May, the Glasgow University Media Group, distinguished for its pioneering media analysis, published a study of the reporting of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It ought to be required reading in [...]

The Big Six networks just pulled in a near-record $8 billion in upfront ad revenue. So why is nobody on Broadcast Row smiling? Despite the good news from Madison Avenue, [...]

Welcome to Vanilla Time. According to new surveys, vanilla is suddenly the most popular flavor in food and beverages--even entertainment. Anyone analyzing the new TV programming lineups or release schedules [...]

Two new TV series skedded for fall have inadvertently set a paradigm for the nets' upcoming season. In ABC's 'That Was Then' and the WB's 'Do Over,' the shows' lead [...]

MADRID Two years ago, under then-prexy Juan Villalonga, Spanish telco giant Telefonica looked set to buy up much of Latin American TV single-handedly. Telefonica's control of Argentine TV net Telefe [...]

The past year brought dramatic changes to the kids programming landscape in North America. Fox Family Worldwide was snapped up by ABC, adding ABC Family to the ranks of Disney-controlled [...]

WHICH of these situation-comedies would you laugh most at? A young woman who prefers home to a job becomes an unpaid agony aunt to two girlfriends: a charity worker in [...]

Syndicators, who were just getting accustomed to acquiescing to the demands of powerful group owners with stations in the top 20 markets, are now facing the prospect of a new [...]

Memo to the television networks: Please be aware that a search of your programming will show a dearth of ordinary women on the U.S. television landscape. They can be found [...]

Like almost everyone in this entertainment-gorged country, Betsy Frank has an opinion on the new programs the broadcast networks unveil each fall. But unlike most other TV viewers, Frank gets [...]

NETWORK WEAKNIGHTS If the Big Three Cut Their Deadweight Hours, They Stand To Gain $75 million to $100 million, Not Even Including Syndication. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. John [...]

SYDNEY The greatest threat to the success of reality television is unreality, according to one of the genre's most successful producers. Faking and overhyping could kill it dead in ratings [...]

SYDNEY What's the matter with kids today? For a start, they're more picky than ever about what they watch on TV. No longer interested in serials, children want self-contained episodes, [...]

SYDNEY With three big rating seasons under its belt and a fourth pending, 'Big Brother' is showing off its legs for Southern Star Endemol. 'I can see it going for [...]

MONTREAL Canuck terrestrial web CTV, which often used to trail rival Global Network, is garnering boffo ratings thanks to savvy U.S. acquisitions and one monster local success story. It's a [...]

NEW YORK Barry Diller has grabbed headlines as a media mogul and a guru of Internet and electronic commerce. His latest claim to fame is less glamorous: A fly in [...]

BERLIN While communist pro-paganda hasn't exactly returned to Germany's airwaves East German chic is definitely back in fashion. It's been 14 years since fall of the Berlin Wall opened East [...]

With no end in sight to the reality TV tidal wave, actors and writers have been in a tizzy. But there is one unscripted skein that may ease the worries [...]

VIEWERS WHO WERE STARTLED to hear references to threesomes and bisexuality on an NBC commercial break over the weekend might be assured to know that even the network's in-house agency [...]