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Television Phase

The CHAMP project is coding highly popular primetime network television shows including medical dramas, police dramas, legal dramas, and westerns since the 1950’s. Dramas were selected because they are a popular, consistent, and available genre across decades that may help the project better capture CHAMP health risk portrayals trends than other genres. The television coding is similar to the movie coding in that the observed portrayal and behaviors are captured in 5-minute segments using many of the same variables. Just as was done with the movie results, we plan on looking for television health risk behavior trends over time. We hope to complete television coding and start our music coding phase of Billboard’s top rated singles since the 1950’s phase by Spring 2010.