y TV star. Moreover, it has tailored business and television network marketing efforts to inexpensively interpret the reality TV concept within product TV advertisements, such as commercials and product placement, while deceptively creating a link between the product and the show.
             In the last 15 years, there has been an increasing change in television programming. It started over 3 decades ago with the first reality series ever produced: PBS's An American Family (Matheson). This unique-in-its-time concept "followed the Loud family, which consisted of a middle-aged Santa Barbara, Calif., couple and their five teenage children" (Matheson). Notwithstanding its decent amount of television exposure, the series became infamous for Mrs. Loud's request for divorce from Mr. Loud and their son Lance's coming "out"- becoming the first person to be openly gay on television. USA Today online columnist, Whitney Matheson holds: Unlike today's wave of reality TV, there was no million-dollar prize on American Family, no B-list celebrity catfights or gross-out eating competitions. It consisted of merely a household and a camera, and it left a lasting impression on millions of viewers.
             But yet, network executives felt that the idea of "reality TV" needed to be even more developed. What used to be interesting sitcom dominated prime-time television, has now become fear, competition, and suspense driven reality TV.
             Through the 90's, Americans saw the widest range of the simplest form of "reality TV," known as the "talk show." From Jenny Jones and Oprah Winfrey to Jerry Spring and Ricki Lake, these talk shows focused on topics, such as "The Survival Stories of Catastrophe Victims" and "The Search for My Biological Parent" to feed the growing hunger of the American need to be entertained by the misfortunes of others (Grosvenor). Guest would come on set to tell their story about what ever the topic of the day was and the studio audience would react p...