Network TV

Network TV refers to the traditional broadcast television system in the United States, dominated by the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) that delivered programming to nationwide audiences over local affiliate stations. It is used to characterize the mainstream, mass-audience content and cultural sensibilities of this era of broadcasting.

Claims that use this term

• Network TV dramas were split on whether crisis justified suspending civil rights.
• Network TV explains terrorism through Freudian family psychodrama rather than politics
• Network TV lost young viewers because its rural shows stayed locked to 1950s taste