Media Technology
Unit Subtitle: Brief History
of American Television
Broadcasting
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Broadcasting - a young media
1700s
1837
1876
1920
1948
newspapers in US
telegraph
telephone
1st commercially licensed radio
station-KDKA Pittsburgh, Penn.
TVs in homes
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Television Development
1920s
1926
1928
Many people/companies
experimenting with and
developing TV
Philo T. Farnsworth, American,
experimented with electronic TV
stream of electrons
Vladimir Zworykin develop/refines
iconoscope tube
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Television Development
1928
1931
1935
1st TV Drama Broadcast
The Queens Messenger from GE
station
CBS - experimental scheduled TV
Electronic TV is demonstrated to
press
Few people have TVs
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Television Development
1936
1939
Germany televises Olympics
Britain few hours of regular
programming a day
RCA presents TV at New York
Worlds Fair
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Television Development
1941
1942
1945
FCC authorizes TV broadcast
CBS 15 hours programming per
week
150 applications for TV stations
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Color Television
During War, CBS experimented w/ color
1946
CBS presents non-compatible
mechanical color system
1947
FCC refuses CBS color request
1948
50 TV stations on air,
124 authorized
FCC - four year freeze on new
TV licenses
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Color Television
1950
1950
1951
Korean War slows color TV
progress
FCC announces CBS mechanical
color system
negative response from stations,
public
National Television System
Committee (NTSC) explores color
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Cable Television
1950
1952
Community Antenna Television
(CATV)
AT&T installs coaxial cable in
large cities, reduces ghosting
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Color Television
1952
1953
FCC lifts TV freeze
FCC approves UHF
Old TVs dont get UHF,
Ruling-- all new TVs must have both
VHF and UHF
FCC approves NTSC compatible
electronic color system
Korean War ends
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Video recorders
1956
Ampex demonstrates videotapes
recorder
1963
Sony home VTR $995
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Television
1950s
Live dramatic series
1952-60
Rampant growth in TV
108 stations in 1952,
522 in 1960
1960
90% homes have TVs
Only NBC had color programming
1960s Large variety of TV programs
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Television
1966
All 3 networks have color
1967
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
authorized Corporation for Public
Broadcasting
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Television
1980
1984
1% of homes have VCRs
Consumer camcorder by Sony
Stereo AM & TV
FCC begins deregulation
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Cable Television
1972
1977
FCC ends ban cable TV in large
cities
HBO starts pay TV for cable
2 way cable in Columbus Ohio
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Cable Television
1980
1981
1987
1998
2004
CNN begins
MTV on cable
50% of homes w/ TV have cable
Digital compression used in cable
More than 30% of US cable approximately 22.9 million receive digital cable service
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Digital Television
1997
1999
2004
DVD introduced
FCC rules - all US SDTV stations must
be DTV by 2006, now 2009
Stations begin broadcasting Digital TV
and wide screen HDTV
more than 1,000 US TV stations
broadcast digital signal
3 million HDTV sets in homes
All manufactured 36 and larger sets
must have a digital tuner
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