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Thursday, April 19, 2012

UK: TV Quiz 1

TV UK  Olympics 2012 
By Skyler
The Olympics are on their way later on this year, we thought it would be a good idea to get you used to somethings from the UK , since they will be hosting The Olympics this summer. Across the mychiller websites (including this one) we will featuring something about the UK from April until after the Olympics at various times. Since Joshuaonline is  a TV and media blog why not do a quiz about British TV. Quiz one ,if you accept, is not to hard. We will do more of these if you like them.
    1. In the UK , the public broadcaster is the BBC  (British Broadcasting Corporation). It doesn't use commercials for it's money. Unlike PBS here in America, they don't do telethons for money, so how they make their money?
     a) Tax Money
     b) Funded by Donations
     c)  TV licences

2.   In America our first morning show , "Today" started back in 1952 , "Good Morning America" started in 1976, and CBS has been in Morning TV for a long time. In Britain  , they call morning TV .Breakfast programs. But what was  their first national morning program?
               a) Breakfast Time
               b) Great Britain Today
               c)  Wake up  UK
3.   Great Britain launched it's first Commercial network in September 1955, and has been broadcasting ever since.
 Named ITV  or Independent Television. It took until 1982 to launch  a second commercial network , what is the name of this network.
                a) ITV2
                b) Great Britain Network
                c) Channel 4
4. In 2011, America got it's own version of this reality  of this singing reality TV show that started in the UK.
      What was the show?
              a) The Voice
              b) The X-Factor
           
5.The Longest Running TV Soap in the UK is?
          a) Coronation Street -ITV1
          b) Eastenders            -BBC one
          c) Emmeradale           -ITV1
6. Though, The BBC Had a leg up on the Breakfast TV game , they weren't the only ITV  started their morning programms back in 1983 one month after BBC 1 . They infact were for a long time considered their own networks, but do you know the names?
              a) Good Morning , UK AM , Breakfast Live
              b) TV-AM , GMTV, Daybreak
              c) Wake Up Sleepy,  Before 9am
7.  The World's longest running Children's program is from UK it's been on TV since 1958 what's the name?
               a) Blue Peter
               b) Seasame Street
                c) Horrid Henry
8. The UK does have local TV, news and for a while they had local TV programs as well and some of the ITV stations produced shows to be networked. But how is local tv divided?
                a) by City
                b) by county
               c)  by region
9. In America we call usually Call TV hosts , anchors for news shows, and hosts for talk shows and game shows but in the UK they are called?
               a) broadcaster
               b) on air person
               c) Presenter
10. We in America know our first 24 national news network is CNN, what is the UK's.
            a) BBC NEWS Channel
            b) Sky News Channel
            c) ITV News Channel

Time's up all the answers are below.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Good Morning America Afternoon

TV Daytime ABC 
  ABC announced that daytime show "The Revolution" will be ending after it launched back in January as a replacement to "One Life to Live" the show was suffering with low ratings. To replace it a 3rd hour of "Good Morning America" will be taking the slot over the summer.  In the fall this will make room for Katie Couric's new show to take the slot .  The 3rd Hour of GMA will be produced by the same staff as the rest of GMA.
 Soap fans have something  happy about : "General Hosptial" will be renewed as well.
   Katie Couric's show will be airing on many ABC -owned -stations , as the show is syndicated.
So the General Hospital will be around for  a 50th birthday, and this is one of first years since 2005 where a soap has not been canceled.