Audio Video

Production

History of
American
Broadcasting

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Broadcasting:
A Young Media

In
Pittsburgh
PA

1700s

1837

1876

1920

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1948

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
The Queens
Messenger
from GE
Station

1928

1st

1931

Regularly
scheduled TV
begins

CBS
experimental
station

1935

Electronic TV
is
demonstrated
to the press

Few people
have TVs

TV Drama
broadcast

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Television Development
1936
Germany: televises Olympics.
Britain: few hours of regular
programming a day.

1939
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
19321945

During WWII, CBS experimented with

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
Korean War slows color TV progress.
FCC announces CBS mechanical color system.
Negative response from stations, public.

1951
National Television System Committee (NTSC)
explores color.

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Cable Television
1950

Community
Antenna
Television (CATV)

1952

AT&T installs
coaxial cable in
large cities,
reduces ghosting.

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Color Television
1952

1953

FCC lifts TV freeze

FCC approves
NTSC compatible
electronic color
system

FCC approves UHF

Old TVs dont get
UHF
Ruling: all new TVs
must have both
VHF and UHF

Korean War ends

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Video Recorders
1956

Ampex
demonstrates
videotapes

1963

Sony home
VTR $995

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Television
1950s
1952
1960
1960s

Live dramatic series.

Rampant growth in TV, from 108 in 52

to 522 stations. 90% of homes have TVs.

Large variety of TV programs.

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Television
1966
All 3 networks have color.
1967
Public Broadcasting Act of
1967 authorized the
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.

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Television
1980

1% of homes
have VCRs.

Consumer
camcorder by
Sony.

1984

Stereo AM &
TV.

FCC begins
deregulation.

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Cable Television
1972

FCC ends ban on cable TV in large

cities.
HBO starts pay TV for cable.

1977

Two-way cable in Columbus, Ohio.

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Cable Television
1980

1981

1987

1998

CNN begins
MTV on cable
50% of homes with TV have cable
Digital compression used in cable

More than 30% (around 22.9 million) of U.S. cable

receive digital cable service
2004

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Digital Television
1997
DVD introduced.
FCC rules: all U.S. SDTV stations must
be DTV by 2006, now 2009.
1999
Stations begin broadcasting Digital TV and wide screen
HDTV.
2004
More than 1000 US TV stations broadcast digital
signal.
3 million HDTV sets in homes.
All manufactured sets 36 and larger must have a
digital tuner.

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Digital Television

2006

2009

1000+ U.S.
digital TV stations
on the air.

Broadcast TV in
U.S. goes all
digital.

Consumers buy
HDTV sets in
significant
numbers.

Most analog TV
transmitters shut
down.

2010
3-D TV sets
go on sale
in U.S.

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