MGMT 470 - Television Vocabulary

Carriage fee

Monthly fee per subscriber, which is normally paid by pay-TV service providers/platform operators to the channels they carry.

cable TV

Television signals carried to households by cable and paid by subscription.

Streaming TV

Today's alternative to Cable TV is streaming with a wide range of choices (Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV, Hulu, and host of others).

premium cable

cable television channels offered to viewers for a fee above the cost of their basic subscription

Broadcast TV

Television sent over airwaves as opposed to over cables.

Scripted Television

all content that's produced with a script.

unscripted television

all content that's produced without a script.

First run episodes

television show that is available for public viewing for the first time.

reruns

when episodes are played again after they've already played for the first time

single-camera shooting

A technique of remote shooting that involves only one camera and is most often used for event recording.

three camera shoot

In a basic type of shoot, all three cameras will have either one focal point with three different angles or three different focal points.

limited television series

a television show with a predetermined number of episodes telling a complete story arc, usually longer than a miniseries.

Television Pitch

A concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screenwriter or film director to a film producer or studio executive.

Syndication

leasing TV stations or cable networks the exclusive right to air TV shows. Usually occurs after 100 first-run episodes of a TV show.

Showrunner

The person responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television series, often also the series creator and sometimes its chief scriptwriter as well.

table reading

when actors sit around a table to read the show, without the presence of an audience

Television Pilot

a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network

white schedule

the schedule that include, scene, actors and locations for an entire season of a show.