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Brian's Song: The Effectiveness And Legacy Of Primetime TV

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Take-Home Exam 2 Monday Night Football revolutionized broadcast TV by creating a harmonious factor that energized and captivated the masses. It allowed for an entire generational gap to be brought together consensually by inserting influential shows and TV movies at specific time-slots to maintain a flow; and for a few hours a day, everything seemed to be much calmer in the world. The movie Brian's Song exemplified and proved to be a major crux for ABC and its viewers, simply because of the plot and the timeslot it held on national TV. It allowed a representation of cohesion and unity, which in turn made it for easier viewing and easier flow. However, many underlying factors must be taken into account when analyzing the overall effectiveness and legacy of primetime TV on Mondays. The concept of flow, and the movie's role in consensual space, and how the development of Brian's Song panned out, are critical points that justify just how powerful primetime TV was in the late 20th century. Firstly, Brian's Song catapulted to relative success at an interesting point in history. At the time of its premier, it was the first-time cable networks had made more TV feature movies than actual theatrical premiers that would later be aired on TV (Gomery, 1996). …show more content…

However, this magnanimous success that was given to the film overshadowed the properties that made racism so vibrant in the U.S. Because of this, the film holds an influential moment in the Broadcast TV halls, for its establishment of network flow in ABC, but holds itself to a much higher standard than it should, for is assimilationist standpoint on racism at the time. The consensual space it allowed was quite powerful at the time, but for all the wrong reasons, and for this, it is important to take primetime's exaltation to the forefront of Broadcast TV with a grain of

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