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The First Succesful Televisions
The first television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. -
Television is Introduce To The United States!!!
Televisions were introduce to the United States in 1928. The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television license (W3XK) to Charles Jenkins. John Logie Baird beams a television image from England to the United States. The first television set is sold. The Daven television cost $75. RCA begins work on large-screen television. -
Vladimir Zworkin
Russian immigrant in America (like Sarnoff) could demonstrate a system with all the features of modern picture tube by 1929. -
10 Years Later
Many inventors have tried and failed to intent a television, and alot more people have been successful. Many people had their first look at television at the 1939 World's Fair in New York CityRCA had a number of TRK-12 televisions on display in their impressive exhibit hall that was shaped like a Vacuum Tube. The centerpiece was the Phantom TRK-12 shown above, whose cabinet was made of transparent Lucite. -
1940s
In 1947, President Harry Truman's state of the union address and the baseball World Series were televised. A year later, CBS and NBC networks started 15-minute nightly newscasts. In the late 1940s there were 98 commercial television stations in 50 large cities. By 1949, prices of TV sets had gone down. -
Channel Allocation
The FCC was charged with ensuring that every community in America would be supplied with at least one channel, with no overlapping or interfering channels and, from 1948 to 1952 placed a freeze on license applications in order to work out the problem.During that period the number of sets purchased rose from a 250,000 to more than 17 million -
The Rise of Network Television
At first there were four television networks: NBC, CBS, ABC and Dumont, a network founded by TV manufacturer Allen B. Dumont who got into production to increase demand for his sets.The Dumont network lacked the radio relationships of the others and could not line up enough affiliates to be attractive to advertisers. Dumont folded in 1955. Its stations went on to become the nucleus of Metromedia Television, which eventually became the Fox network. -
Television Today
Broadcasting is transmitting sound and pictures by means of radio waves through space for reception by the general public.
Cable is transmitting sound and pictures through a coaxial cable for reception by an audience that pays for the service.
Direct broadcast satellite is transmitting broadcast and cable programming by satellite to a receiver attached to the home of the subscriber. Podcasting is transmitting programming over the internet.
