History of Television

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History of Television
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Earliest Experiments

• 1876 Goldstein. Cathode rays electric
  current forced through vacuum tube
• 1900 Perskyi. Names television
• 1911 Boris Rosing (Russian) transmission of
  images

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Early Experiments

• 1920s
• Jenkins (US) and Baird (UK)
• First tv broadcast
• Stick figures
• Jenkins also
• First US tv license
• First commercial (for Federal Radio Commission)

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Farnsworth

• San Francisco, Sept 7, 1927
• Scanned images with a beam of electrons
• HE INVENTED MODERN TV

I love TV
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Early Development

• 1939 first president on TV FDR
• May 1939 first televised baseball game
• 1945 9 tv stations, 8 cities have service
• 1946 color tv
• 1948 cable is tested
• 1949 48 tv stations, 23 cities have service,
  Sales increase by 500!

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Early TV and the Big 3

• RCA Radio Corporation of America
• Was radio, now makes tvs and tv programs
• CBS Columbia Broadcast System
• NBC- National Broadcasting Company
• 1941 Supreme Court makes it sell ½
• ABC American Broadcasting Company is born!
• MOST EARLY SHOWS MIMIC RADIO.
• talking heads

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Censorship and the HUAC

• Well get to it!

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The Golden Age (1950s)

• What was on?
• Theater and miniseries
• Sitcoms
• I Love Lucy
• The Honeymooners
• Quiz Shows
• Magazine-Style (soft news) News Shows
• Presidential Nomination Conventions (1952)

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1960s

• 1960 tv changes face of politics
• Kennedy
• 1962 first satellite transmission
• 1963 tv covers Kennedy assassination
• 1964 color in prime time
• 1967- most network tv is in color
• 1968 Cronkite has more power than president
• 1967 ENTER PBS!

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PBS?

• 1967 Public Broadcasting Act
• Push for educational and positive television
• Nonprofit stations
• Funds come from
• Congressional grants
• Private corporate underwriters
• Viewers like you

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1970s

• 1970 fiber optic cable
• 1971 rise of cable
• 1972 half American households have a tv
• 1972 VCR is introduced
• 1975 Home Box Office (HB0) prize fight (The
  Thrilla From Manila)

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1980s

• Japanese HDTV
• 1980s tv
• Soap operas
• Sitcoms
• Quiz shows
• 1986 Fox is born

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1990's

• 1991 CNN is monitored to show American success
• direct-broadcast satellite tv
• UPN and WB
• Cable is king
• 1996- tv ratings and V-chip
• 1997 beginning of HDTV