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Television Broadcast Ratings Lesson PlanTelevision Broadcast Ratings Lesson Plan
Publisher
Media Smarts
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Grade
7th - 10th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
5 days
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Year
2012
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Television Broadcast Ratings

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Explore the relationships between programming, advertising, and the ensuing rating wars. Help develop the media smarts of your pupils through this examination of advertisers for popular shows. Although the included Sweep Chart features 2002 Canadian programming, you can check to see if local ratings for your area are available by visiting the Nielsen Media Research Website.

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Concepts

advertising, Computer Programming, coding, demographics, advocacy, letter writing

Additional Tags

advertising, programming, demographics, rating wars, sweep week, prime-time programming, demographics of rating systems, advocacy techniques, english language arts

Classroom Considerations

  • Find updated information from recent years of the top programs and ratings

Pros

  • Complete with background reading, discussion topics, small group activity, and writing assignment

Cons

  • None

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