Adjusting with our Antennas

About Adjusting with our Antennas

What was watched and the way it was watched 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 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/contact) is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).

Publisher

BAF

Category

history · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jul 2024

Latest episode

1 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jun 2026

   Watching the Spies - Special Bonus Edition

   Tune in with your feedback In an all listener preview of this subscriber-based bonus coverage, BAF peeks into the television shows of the 1960s decade that centered on espionage. Inspired by the release of the early James Bond films, spy-themeed programs began their mission with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and continued with Get Smart, I Spy, and the sustaining Mission: Impossible. Many of these shows went beyond what was seen on the television screen and BAF explores the mark they made and how m...

2. 

   18 May 2026

   Television and the Bicentennial

   Tune in with your feedback With the approach of the America's semiquincentennial (250 years), BAF takes a look back at the Bicentennial celebration in 1976 and the role televison played not just that on Sunday, July 4th of that year but months even years before. Support the show

3. 

   20 Apr 2026

   Appealing Through Our Antennas

   Tune in with your feedback With all the different types of programming the television brought, fund raising played a part and so entered the telethon. Addressing many charitable causes including medical research, support for arts and culture, and hunger relief, BAF explores how the televised appeal to masses began. Support the show

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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