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The Bad Broadcast

REALITY TV

The Bad Broadcast

Dear Media, Madison Murphy

Society & Culture, Comedy, Relationships

55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

REALITY. TELEVISION. You know it. You live it. You love it. Reality TV has gone through a lot to get to where it is today, and in this episode we're breaking down all the major milestones of reality tv throughout history. We have some extra surprises in this episode that I can guarantee you DO NOT want to miss. Enjoy!
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0:00.0

The following podcast is a deer media production.

0:02.8

Welcome to the Bad Broadcast. I'm your host, Maddie Murphy.

0:20.2

Hi everyone, good morning. Welcome back to a new episode of The Bad Broadcast.

0:26.0

My name is Maddie, I'm your host and I'm just tickled that you're joining me today because

0:30.8

I'm so excited about today's episode. This has been on my list for probably over a year

0:36.6

and everything lined up perfectly for it to happen this week and I'm just I'm so excited.

0:41.6

Today we are doing a deep dive. Well, it's not really a deep dive, but I would say it's a

0:45.2

it's a substantial swim for sure through the history of reality TV. I've been watching love Island

0:52.4

lately and don't worry, I'm going to give you all my thoughts and feelings.

0:54.8

Love Island season seven, by the way. But I just I keep thinking to myself, how did we get here?

1:00.7

How did we get here to this point where this is the media we consume? I'm not I'm not mad about

1:06.4

it and I'm not obviously judging anybody who does it because reality TV is my lifeblood.

1:12.3

But I just I've always been curious how these things came to be. So there's several like kind of

1:17.5

landmarks throughout television history that helped reality TV get to where it is today

1:22.4

and we're just going to go through those kind of stepping stones. What shows were coming out,

1:26.0

what years, what they were and how they kind of affected what reality TV is today and oh man,

1:34.2

I'm excited. You guys are you guys are about to have the most I mean, I don't know if this

1:38.8

knowledge is going to be useful. I'm going to be totally honest, but it is interesting.

1:43.0

Like I can't I can't guarantee that this is going to help you with like your job or getting a

1:47.8

degree or anything, but boy is it fun to learn about and that's what we're here to do. So let's dive

1:54.0

in. Let's let's hop on into the pool of the history of reality TV. So reality TV, it's very first,

2:03.4

I guess just the very first reality show is what we could call it is something called original

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