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Network Radio, TV, Dragnet & NYPD

The 1950s era television series Dragnet and the current 1990s television series NYPD Blue would seem to have little in common aside from both being about police and police cases, but in fact the two shows are more closely related than that. Dragnet was the first television series to try to present the police in a realistic light, not as superheroes but as men and women doing a job. NYPD Blue is a direct descendant of this effort, though the emphasis has changed greatly and the shows diverge widely in many different ways. The differences between the two shows reflect not just a different emphasis but also different social settings, different eras in television, different technical capabilities, different audience expectations, and different levels of freedom.

Dragnet was first a radio program and was carried over onto television with the same cast in 1954. Radio and television were both developed as commercial media in the era after World War I. Radio was the first truly mass medium of communication, reaching millions of people instantly and altering social attitudes, family relationships, and how people related to their environment. Television would have an even greater impact once it was commercially viable. Television was invented in the late 1920s, and various experiments were conducted into the 1930s. What delayed the development of television as a product for a mass audience was World War II, and within a few years of the end of that war, television would start to become a feature in the American home. The shift from radio to television was not really a shift from one to the other but the creation of a new atmosphere which accommodate both. Radio did not disappear as was predicted by some. Instead, the way people related to radio changed, but this happened in a way that gave radio its own important media niche, one that was even bigger than it had occupied before.

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