In this chapter you will learn:
- Television influences people, culture and has reshaped other media.
- Television technology is electronic.
- Television programming is delivered by local over-air stations, local cable systems, and satellite.
- U.S. television has a tiered national-local structure.
- Networks dominate programming to local over-air television stations.
- Cable today rivals over-air networks and affiliates.
- Technology and shifting mores shape television programming
- Television has moved into the forefront as a conveyer of news.
- Public television was designed as a noncommercial alternative.
