Adjusting with our Antennas
What was watched and the way it watcehd on TV has presented a significant impact on the medium's influcence over time. Join the lifelong television enthusiast identified as the frequency BAF in a journey through various decades of that medium where the reception came from the antenna. The episodes cover shows, genres, personalities and how not just antennas but how audiences have received them through the airwaves over time.
Produced by Benjamin Fronczek
Our Theme Song: Good Ol Days - 2024 Remaster by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.
Adjusting with our Antennas
On the Job, On the Air: Those in the Media
In the continuing series On the Job, On the Air BAF explores shows that centered on the ficitious media and how some interacted with reality and issues of the day. Specifically noted is Mary Tyler Moore's portrayal of the more independent professional woman through her own series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and how that character lineup in an American televison newsroom and her development of MTM led to further shows including the spinoff of a west coast newspaper in Lou Grant. Another MTM series was WKRP In Cincinnati and its behind the scenes look at a radio station. In the late 1980s into the 90s, the sitcom Murphy Brown looked at the news media from a national perspective.
