TV

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TV

• Quick and Dirty
• Version
• (Ok not really dirty)

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Who Is the Inventor?

• Philo T. Farnsworth first to apply for a patent
  General Electric
• Vladimir Zworykin working for RCA develops
  iconoscope in 1923
• Commercial venture so hotly debated
• Great Britain is first country to regularly
  broadcast in 1936 BBC

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EPS Cycle

• World War II thwarts development
• Elite stage continues until end of war
• 1948 is breakout year with both NBC and CBS
• FCC puts freeze on number of licenses granted
• By 1952, 17 million TV sets

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Early Genres

• Live for a number of years
• Comedy
• Westerns
• Variety shows (almost non-existent today)
• Sitcoms
• Quiz shows

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The Numbers

• Today, almost 100 of American homes have at
  least 1 TV set most have 2 color sets
• Average child views more than 18,000 hours of TV
  by age 15
• Average American watches 4 hours a day

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Some Significant People

• Talent wise
• Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour banned from the air
  for using social commentary
• Bill Cosby in I Spy is First African American
  Lead
• Norman Lear develops All in The Family and Archie
  Bunker

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Some Effects

• Culture is disseminated to young people through
  TV programming rather than adults in the home,
  school, or family
• Others are all really debatable effects
• Most agree, TV has limited effects