MDST 170. Introductory Topics in Media Studies: Television Industries (1). This course will introduce students to the study of the industries that produce, distribute, and exhibit television in a “post-network” era, considering television programs as meaningful cultural objects produced by specific institutional conditions. Focusing on commercial television industries in the United States, but offering comparisons to global and non-commercial alternatives, we will explore television in terms of the market logics, programming traditions, and cultures of production all under transformation by emerging digital platforms and patterns of media use. Prerequisites: none.