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• LEGAL, BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF REALITY BASED TELEVISION.
• This course will examine the business, legal and financial aspects of the fastest-growing genre of television programming. Class sessions will feature television industry professionals who will share their practical knowledge and "real-life" experiences. ... " The following subjects, among others, will be studied: the TV ratings system; negotiation of format, concepts and on-screen talent deals; the financial aspects to the studio and the creator; contestant releases/background checks/risk management; vetting a production for safety and insurability; game shows and the FCC; talk and variety shows; hidden cameras; lawsuits that arise in connection with reality-based programming and how to prevent being sued. ("Television Programming and Production Financing" is not a pre-requisite. ...

• Ideas about the Media written by the G Band New Media Class « Reality TV Exposed | Main | Comments on reality televison » September 24, 2003.
• Reality Television is it based on our own society or is it based on someone's fixation of society?.
• Reality television has been in our society for about ten years when MTV established "The Real World. ... bad competition, with good stating that reality television is just a form of entertainment for viewers to enjoy and the bad saying that reality television is a disgrace because it brings out the worst in human behavior. With this essay, we will explore the pros and cons of reality television and hopefully come to a conclusion to see whether or not reality television is worked up to be someone's fixation of society or is it the society that we live in today? .
• Even though many have argued that reality has brought out the worst in human nature you can see that reality television is made up to be that way. ... " You can see that tension has been brought up the Christian society that reality is morally sin because it doesn't show the "good" in people and because of this when a Christian farmer was brought into "Survior" he was ridiculed. ... The Christian community also believe that most of the events and situations that occur on reality television is an act to bring in money. They believe that it shouldn't based the show on the money and more on the children that are watching these profanity shows that bring out the worst in people. On the other hand, reality television has had its benefits beginning on a show when celebrities went on a Survivor-like journey to compete with one another; they competed for 1 million dollars for the charity of their choice. Reality television has also been a good endorsement for companies other than the show that they are on, since some companies do help promote the show. Even though some reality shows have been kept in a house away from society, some reality shows have been in exotic lands and show the reality of nature at its best. ... In fear of exposing profanity to their children, parents want reality television to "clean up" their shows, not realizing that their kids are most likely going through similar situations from walking to school to even going to the store. Reality television is based on our lives with real people that are opinionated who get together and have confrontations based on their own views and beliefs. Overall, Reality Television has its pro and cons but situations that occur on television are based on real people with who are in control of their own actions. Television in general has its pro and cons but reality just emphasizes ouyr lives today.

•   Reality Based Television Sucks! .
•   I was sitting around this weekend watching television, when I came across one of those reality television shows: Chains of Love. ...
•   Where do they get these morons with such low self-esteem that they would actually get on television and allow another moron to dehumanize them by chaining them together like animals?   Then, as if it were not enough, they allow another human being to vote them out of their lives and then decide whether or not their time was worth a certain amount of money or none at all. ...
• Are we so starved for entertainment that we have sunk to the depths of depravity to get a chuckle?  Are people so desperate to find a mate that they will embarrass themselves on national television by basically yelling to the world, “Hey, I’m a loser that can't get a date, so I’m on national TV letting another loser decide whether or not he/she wants to be with me!”    .
• The world is full of idiots, and I encounter at least 20 a day, so you can understand why when I go home I don’t want to be bombarded by 20 more idiots when I turn on my television set.   So what’s the solution?  Should I throw my television out of the window (after all it is called the boob tube)?  Or should we demand quality programs and tell the networks to get rid of all these ridiculous nonrealistic "reality based" shows?  Of course, that will never happen because we are far too engulfed in this so-called reality based television, which is actually no more realistic then a scripted sitcom. ...
•   I do not think the viewing public can take much more of reality based television; I know for sure that I can't. ...

• MTV and Reality Television.
• Through careful attention to societal trends and the implementation of calculated marketing techniques, Music Television has built itself up from merely a visual radio station into the enormous cultural, capitalist consumer machine it is today. ... When it first came into existence, MTV had an immediate and lasting impact on the recording industry; but in the last decade, the network has changed the face of the television industry with the introduction of wildly popular reality-based programming.

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• Reality Based TV Shows - Find official and fan sites for shows centered on re-enactments, TV courtrooms and actual unstaged footage.
• National Review - Reality Bites: A Fad Fizzles Rob Long takes a look at the so-called "real" people who are appearing on reality television shows. ...
• Reality Blurred Get a fix on what's been happening with reality television with this guide. ...
• Reality TV Fans Community of reality TV fans offers articles, episode updates, and news. ...
• Reality TV World Comprehensive reality television site covering dozens of reality programs. ...
• San Francisco Chronicle - TV Is the True Survivor Tim Goodman discusses how reality shows have revitalized network ratings, examines recent hits and misses, and reveals series in the works. ...
• Sir Links a Lot - Reality Television Show Links Comprehensive directory to resources about reality television shows, including network guides, fan sites, and articles. ...
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• 6926 Print REALITY-BASED NOWCASTING: THE UTAH WINTER EPISODE.
• Television shows labeled reality have recently portrayed people in situations dealing with survival, winning stardom, or marrying a millionaire. However, the perceived reality can be quite different to participants and observers. Unlike these shows, soldiers face actual survival and winning battles based in part on knowing the real battlefield situation, including the weather conditions. However, the soldiers may also be misled by weather information that does not reflect the reality of conditions at the time and place of interest. ...
• Similarly, nowcasts were performed through successive corrections of the MM5 output based on incorporating the observed data from up to 18 surface stations at the time of the nowcast. ... Of course, reality is not simple, and several specific daily cases will be highlighted showing how the observations can lead the nowcast to perform better or even worse than the original forecast at specific times and locations. ...
• This tool can help soldiers perform better, but they should also be aware that reality will occasionally be different. ...

• Research on Reality TV Sheds Light on Contemporary Society.
• University of Colorado at Boulder Research on Reality TV Sheds Light on Contemporary Society .
• 26 (AScribe News) -- Mark Andrejevic, doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is gathering information from television viewers nationwide on the popular trend of reality-based television formats and is making some interesting observations about its social implications.
• The research on Andrejevic's dissertation project, tentatively titled ``Little Brother is Watching: An Examination of Surveillance-based Entertainment,'' is based on a variety of methods, including several personal interviews with cast members and producers of MTV's ``Road Rules'' and CBS's ``Big Brother. ...
• ``Reality TV drastically repositions the traditional Cold-War portrayal of surveillance as oppressive and totalitarian,'' Andrejevic said. ``Reality TV presents surveillance as a form of self-expression for the cast members, a way to assert their individuality and to intensify their experiences. ...
• In this sense, I'm tempted to describe the booming trend of reality TV, with apologies to Stanley Kubrick, as 'how we learned to stop worrying and love surveillance,''' he said.
• Andrejevic predicts the reality trend will continue to develop as producers explore the limits of the format and as long as they continue to benefit from an inexpensive cast of ``real'' people seeking fame.
• He collected information from official and unofficial Web sites for reality TV shows, in addition to interviewing fans on the Web sites and collecting more than 1,000 pages of chat-room transcripts and bulletin-board postings.
• -- The popularity of reality TV is not unrelated to a critique of mainstream fictional programming: the number one reason viewers cite for the popularity of the genre is that it is not yet as formulaic and predictable as typical TV dramas and sit-coms.
• -- Reality TV caters to a particular form of ``savviness'' with respect to television programming: viewers have become so aware of the contrived nature of television production that it is harder for them to ``suspend disbelief'' in order to identify with fictional characters. Reality TV --despite the fact that it, too, is contrived -- makes it easier to suspend disbelief, because no matter how contrived the situations are, the people involved are not ``acting''--their responses and emotions are ``real. ...
• Reality TV makes that identification direct: you don't have to see behind the fictional character (Rachel on ``Friends,'' for example) to the ``real'' celebrity (the details of Jennifer Aniston's personal life). Reality TV gets directly to the personal life of the celebrity without mediating it through a fictional character, or at least that's the promise. Many reality TV cast members will say the way in which they are portrayed is contrived to the point of being almost fictional. ...
• -- Reality TV caters to the emerging culture of interactivity. ... Reality TV allows them to imagine that they could be the stars of their favorite TV show, rather than just watching. ...

• Virtual Reality for Interactive Television .
• PROJECT DESCRIPTION First tests of interactive television, starting in '93/'94 in selected areas such as Denver CO, Omaha NE, Orlando FL or Castro Valley CA concentrate on multimedia services such as video-on-demand, interactive shopping or interactive TV guide. In parallel with these early efforts which the media industry has used to basically test the underlying networking infrastructure, more aggressive technologies are being explored by the video game industry which now moves rapidly from 16--bit to 32--bit to 64--bit game consoles and from sprite-based 2D graphics to polygonal 3D graphics. ... VR itself has recently found its first truly profitable niche in the form of location-based entertainment systems whose underlying simulation technologies are progressing rapidly. ...
• For example, Atari Jaguar offers the best price/performance; 3DO attempts at standardizing CD-ROM multimedia format; SGI/Nintendo tries to jump directly to a high performance consumer VR gaming system; Sega offers both Cable TV and VR interfaces based on today's technologies and so on. ...
• Efficient navigation in this maze of deals, mergers and alliances which currently entangle the industry is a complex task which can be accomplished only based on extensive information on today's technologies and a correct vision of events to come. ...
• , Virtual Reality for Cable TV, An Assessment Report for Continental Cablevision, January 1994. ...

• Why I Hate Reality-Based TV .
• Long before the day-long madness of Survivor -mania (which ensued on the day of CBS's summer hit Survivor's season finale), and long before Richard Hatch's name appeared on the final ballot and he took home the $1 million dollar prize, we knew that Survivor II would become the most hyped television sequel in history. ...
• Well, the day has come, or rather is coming-- Survivor II premieres Sunday after the Super Bowl-- when television's most successful version of a newly popular genre 'reality' based television- hits North America. ...
• Has there ever been a time when so many have attempted to emulate the success of a television show? As evidence one could point to fairly harmless and silly shows like The Real World , Big Brother , The Mole , Road Rules , or alternatively, more ominous and threatening to the social fabric of our society (at least according to some) we could mention a slew of shows (almost all of which were curiously aired on Fox) including COPS , When Animals Attack , and World's Scariest Police Chases. ...
• But the more I think about Temptation Island , the more I come to realize that Temptation Island is really just making explicit what was present all along in Survivor , and what will become more overt on Sunday with the launch of Survivor II in the Australian Outback: as much as Survivor tries to masquerade as a serious drama, the 'reality' is that the show is a fake, and a fraud-- a television program which throws a smoke-screen of legitimacy over-top of a core devoid of anything meaningful. ...
• CBS was under siege from so many different groups that there were various reports in Australian media claiming that: a) legal threats and security intimidation were used against Aussies and American media types trying to find out CBS's secret Outback location, b) Survivor II's film site was protected by about 50 security guards, c) huge monetary settlements were given to local cattle ranchers, helicopter operators, and television crew to keep quiet about all aspects of the show, and d) CBS made a secret deal with the local Australian government to sidestep some environmental restrictions which would limit activity around fragile ecosystems where the filming reportedly took place. ...
• After all, as 'real' as such programming appears, the common thread through all such reality-based shows is that they're out to make money. The fine art of making money on television means the networks are under tremendous pressure to distort the truth of such shows to increase selling power. And therefore reality television has no actual base in reality. ...

• REALITY BASED TELEVISION SHOW BY CUESTA COLLEGE STUDENTS TO AIR ON KSBY IN JULY .
• The first-ever "reality-based television game show" produced entirely by Cuesta College students is scheduled to air on KSBY in July. ...
• The crew has received technical assistance from Cuesta College Language and Communications Division Chair Bob Hartwig and Cuesta Television Broadcast Instructor Brandon Downing. Hartwig has contacted former students in the television industry to answer technical questions for Wich. ...
• Wich plans to transfer to San Diego State in spring 2002, majoring in television, film and news media. ...

• What's Wrong with Reality-Based Television?.
• Today I managed to get into a very mild confrontation with a co-worker over the latest in reality-based television programming, MTV's "The Osbornes. ...
• Television.
• Ours is a television-saturated society. ... household, the television is on about seven hours per day," with most people watching at least two to three hours of TV every day. ... " The vast majority of television programming "is designed as entertainment," including news programs and commercials where the aim is to capture and hold the audience's attention. ... Unless there is a source of counterbalance in their life, most people will buy into and adopt the values they see portrayed on television. One well-documented effect of television centers on "agenda setting," in which overreporting of certain events by the news media "shift s viewers beliefs about which issues are truly important. " TV can and does "shape and influence fundamental beliefs about reality. " Television impacts us the most when we look to it: "for understanding and knowledge about self and the environment; for guidance about how to act or react in various situations; and for play or recreation. " (See the article, "Television Viewing, Effects of," in D. ... ) (See: Scaring Witless - How the Media Distorts Reality. ...
• What's wrong with television shows such as The Osbornes? Prior to addressing that question, I would like to make a couple of general observations. First of all, besides the lack of a script, there's a reason reality-based television programming is called reality-based: it is not real. ... " Secondly, in the specific case of Ozzie Osborne, if his mental state is genuine—and there seems little reason to believe otherwise—then isn't MTV offering up borderline retardation (albeit self-induced) for our viewing pleasure? What's more, most reality-based television programs regularly play on and exploit people's weaknesses, fears, and vulnerabilities.
• Like virtually all other TV programming, the ultimate aim of reality-based television programs is to make money, which is accomplished by attracting and keeping a large viewing audience. ... ) Shallow moral platitudes such as those that conclude The Jerry Springer Show or Cheaters notwithstanding, television program producers want to turn a profit. ...

• reality-based television can never beat actual reality .
• Reality-based television really confuses me. The public is transfixed with the lives of other individuals in today's society when they are featured on television. ...
• Reality television began with MTV's craze of Road Rules and The Real World, which featured a variety of young adults living in the same house and dealing with the pressures of every day life. For some reason, this fantasy of reality television ideology caught on across the nation and sparked a plethora of fantastically humiliating and shockingly indiscriminate television series. ...
• So the world of reality television has brought us to today. ...
• However, television viewers have mobbed their television screens to watch one guy call a promiscuous girl names. ...
• Likewise, watching the lifestyles of strangers on television for hours every week does not enlighten you on how to become a better human being but merely wastes your time from enjoying life yourself. ...
• How many reality-based television shows would succeed if they featured the lives of individuals who sat around the house watching reality-based television shows? My guess is none. ... The most exciting reality you should be concerned with is your own. ...

• Print and Reality TV team up for a hybrid avatar.
• NEW YORK: Cable television has always managed to spill a lot of ink and ideas in print and on Internet. This time on its the reality television culture, which is spawning magazine concepts. ...
• In the fray to cash in on the reality-pop culture are Primedia and Hearst magazines, both of which have been showing keen interest in the 'reality magazine' concept. While Primedia is planning to test launch the yet unnamed reality magazine by mid-January as a special offshoot of Soap Opera Weekly, Hearst is also believed to be looking out for a reality-based magazine concept.
• So, while the first of its kind 'reality magazine' is all set to test waters early next year, others are in preparation mode for their share of the plunge.
• 5 million and AOL Time Warner's This Old House can go close to 1 million, there is a potential market for reality-based magazine that will talk about reality TV personalities like the construction worker turned millionaire Evan Marriott of Joe Millionaire.
• Notwithstanding the excitement around the reality-mag concept, eyebrows are being raised over the soundness and sustainability of this business idea. Also more recently, the reality TV formula has shown some signs of wear. ...
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• Reality Television Bites.
• As reality television becomes more popular, viewers are losing sight of what reality really is. ...
• Why do people watch reality television?.
•     Why do you watch reality TV?  These reality-based shows include Survivor, Temptation Island, Cops, Real World, Chain of Love, Making the Band, Bootcamp and the list goes on. ...   I also give my definition of reality television. ...
•     Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try, there is no way to ignore reality television?  My page discusses how hard it is to get away from all of the hype.   Reality television is all over the media and wherever you go, it follows. ...

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• Absolute Reality .
• Online community of reality television fans featuring message boards, show recaps, articles, and chat. Forums include Survivor, The Amazing Race, MTV's reality shows, Combat Missions and others.
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• Galactic Cowgirl's Reality Ranch - cartoons, humor, and discussion forums for reality television. ...
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• Television Executives Scheme to Concoct Extreme New Millionaire Reality Shows.
• Recent Nielsen television ratings reports indicate that the popularity of reality based television shows is gradually waning. "The reality television market has reached near saturation; its products have become too homogenized. ...
• So what do TV execs have up their sleeves to rejuvenate the foundering low cost cash cow that is reality television? "Several things," said Fox Executive Sherwood Plotz, before elaborating, "Extreme things. ...
• Not to be out done, Fox’s rival networks are planning new and extreme reality millionaire shows of their own. Reportedly, ABC is developing a premise entitled, "Marry my Goat!" in which a woman must marry a goat to earn a million dollars, while NBC has begun filming episodes of its tentatively titled reality millionaire show, "Jump Whore, Jump". ...

• Be On Reality TV .
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• The Executive Producer's behind two of NBC's monster summer hits "For Love or Money" and "Meet My Folks" are launching another prime time reality series destined to be a hit! This will be the first show to combine the search for love with fantastic adventures overseas. ...
• UPN’s “The Player” (working title) is a funny, sexy one-hour weekly relationship/reality series. ...
• This is an excellent opportunity for national publicity including but not limited to, radio, television, print, and film. ...
• Do you ever watch these whack reality shows and wonder when there is gonna be something worth your time? HERE YOU GO PLAYA!!. ...
• Los Angeles - From executive producer Don Weiner(“Showtime at The Apollo” and “Who Wants to Marry a Multi Millionaire”), “UPN’s The Player” (working title) is a funny, sexy, one-hour relationship/reality series set in the “bling-bling” world of mansions, cool cars and VIP parties. ...
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• Among all the reasons that I hate reality-based television programming, none ranks higher than when it is done badly. ...
• Examples of reality-based programming done irresponsibly are programs like “When Animals Attack!” or “LA Police Car Chases; Caught on Film!” However, whenever you make trash like this, your imitators, who most likely will be completely devoid of any imagination whatsoever and are only in it for the money will, I guarantee you, be immeasurably worse. ...
• Case in point, a few years ago in 1997 there was a television program broadcast in Japan where each week a young child would be brought out on stage and told that his mother had just been shot and killed for the purpose of seeing how many seconds it would take before he would start crying. ...
•   In a country where we are always looking for the bigger the louder the faster and the wilder how far can we push reality based programming? .

• Home > Viewpoints The increasing reality of TV.
• But don't we turn to TV to escape life's reality?.
• "You can turn the television on at any given moment in the day and find a reality show," he said. ...
• The mere fact that an entire day could conceivably be spent watching reality television is unimportant. But it's important to consider why reality television is ubiquitous on the airwaves. ...
• Theater critic Clive Barnes said, "Television is the first truly democratic culture — the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what people what. ...
• If we assume Barnes' premises are true, we must ask, "Why is it that reality television is such a large part of TV programming?" .
• The television is exalted in our culture for its ability to remove us from reality. ...
• So if reality television is an escape from reality, why is programming increasingly becoming reality-based? One could argue that it's popular because TV producers are charging along with the reality fad (not to mention that reality programming is relatively cheap to produce). ...
• However, it would be too simplistic to write off our fascination with reality television as a fetish where we get off watching others living through their troubles. ...
• Yet, we're glued to our television sets. ...
• If we television viewers are a part of a virtual democracy as Barnes suggests, the increase in quantity of reality TV programming indicates that we are suffering from reality withdrawal. ...
• It seems that television's passive nature has provided for us a proxy vacation from our real world of bills and tests and jobs, but without the irritations of cold water, mosquitoes and, most importantly, the active role required by personal experience. ...
• Why is television becoming increasingly reality-based? Perhaps it's because we're tired of the unreality provided to us by our favorite family member, the glowing box. We've become used to the idea of looking to the television to provide for us an exciting world unlike our own. ... As it seems now, we look toward the television to provide for us what it has already deprived: reality. ...

• Reality-Based Television: Not your ordinary documentary .
• Have you ever watched a television show and felt like you knew the characters or knew people like them? It might be possible that eventually everyone might know someone on a television show. Reality-based television has captured audiences since its beginning, claiming to be the wave of the future. ...
• With a history starting back in the early nineties with the primetime show COPS, Americans can't seem to get enough of reality-based television. ... Today there are many more COPS-like television shows for viewers to choose from. Just think of all the shows that have popped up on television in the past ten years. ...
• Reality-based television has become mesmerizing to many television watchers; I know I'm one of them. Late at night in the dorm when there is nothing to watch on television I know that my roommate and I can turn to at least five different channels and watch some kind of television show that is based on reality. ...
• Real life television has taken over much of the late night programming, making them as common as infomercials. ...
• They have taken reality-based viewing to a new level by creating the "Real World" and "Road Rules". ...
• Despite all of the interest and fun that reality-based television brings to its viewers, it has its drawbacks too. ... These are all consequences of what could happen when regular people are put on television, taped unscripted in documentary situations. ... With viewers like myself, tuning into reality-based television is the wave of the future. Pretty soon people could be taping their own television shows for broadcast. Reality-based television is not your ordinary documentary. ...

• MORE REALITY-BASED TV!.
• More reality shows are on the way, but this new generation is a bit different. ...
• I blame this on MTV's idiotic The Osbourne's, which has made dysfunction the hot buzzword for fall television.
• Personally, I despise most reality-based television, so I won't be watching it.

• Talk Show and Reality .
• The All Company firmly believes that the market is open as never before for novel talk show and reality-based programming. Hits such as Ricki Lake, Oprah, Jerry Springer, The View, Sally, Survivor, Temptation Island, Fear Factor, the Great Race, and Real Word have primed the appetite of the Television viewing audience for increasingly more edgy and controversial programming. ...
• The All Company's Television Production Division will develop original talk shows, documentaries, and reality-based programming for syndication, cable, network, and the Internet.
• The Company is putting together a highly regarded team who are experts in all aspects of TV Talk and Reality production. ...

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