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Who Wants to be a Crorepati?: Global Television and Local Genres in India

February 18, 2005 Shanti Kumar / University of Texas 2 comments

by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
In 2000, when Star Plus Channel launched Kaun Banega Crorepati? (KBC), the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the show quickly became the biggest hit on Indian television.

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Set Your Cathode Rays to Stun(ning)

February 18, 2005 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 7 comments

by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
I’m coming out … and I’m doing it on FLOW. I suppose that, in some ways, I’ve always known that I was a bit “different.”

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Why Media Scholars Should Write Corporate Histories

February 18, 2005 Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College 5 comments

by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Several trade publications have received notices that last month was the tenth anniversary of the launch of WB and UPN, the fifth and sixth broadcast TV networks, dubbed by the trades in their argot as “weblets.”

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The Power of Nightmares

February 18, 2005 Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK 4 comments

by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University
A recent TV documentary series prompted me to reflect upon the intellectual capacities of television, which are more often than not considered fairly limited.

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At Last, TV for People Just Like Me

February 18, 2005 Christopher Anderson / Indiana University 10 comments

by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
I hate your favorite television show. Honestly. I loathe it. You love it, I know. But it’s a stinking pile of shit.

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What the Arab World Should be Watching

February 18, 2005 Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University-Bloomington 4 comments

by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University
I still cherish the memory of my old shortwave radio tucked underneath my bed when I was in Morocco.

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