ABSTRACT
Ultimately what appears on our television screens is the responsibility of a handful of network programming executives. These men, and now women as well, have been using a process for selecting programming that has been in existence almost since the medium’s inception. At its simplest, producers come up with a show idea, they pitch the idea to the network and the network says “yes” or “no” to the show. A number of factors determine which shows the executive will accept or reject. Those factors have changed throughout the history of fin-syn, even though the process itself has not.
