Media History: Television

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Media History Television

• ENCO 221

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1884

• Paul Nipkow patents the electrical telescope in
  Germany, which formed the basis for TVs
  development

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1907

• The word television first appears in the June
  1907 issue of Scientific America
• Visual Radio becomes television

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1927

• Secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, appeared
  on a 2-inch screen by wire in an experimental
  broadcast by AT T. Really primative.

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Before 1930

• Vladimir Zworkin developed an all electronic
  system to transform visual image into an
  electronic system (beginnings of TV) which
  traveled through air

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1930

• Philo Farnsworth developed the cathode ray tube
  which produced an electronic image (beginnings of
  TV)

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1939

• NBC debuts TV at the New York Worlds Fair with a
  broadcast that includes Pres. Franklin D.
  Roosevelt, 1st U.S. President to appear on TV

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1940 Radio

• Edward R. Murrow
• Battle of Britain aired on CBS radio
• First hand news report from bomb riddled London
  during WWII
• Established CBS as premiere radio news network

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1941

• ABC/ American Broadcast Company established

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1947

• NBC and CBS begin broadcasting television news
• Camel News Caravan (NBC)
• Television news with Douglas Edwards (CBS)

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1949-1950

• Black-and-white tv replaces radio very quickly.
• 2 major corporate execs. Who developed TV
  Sarnoff and Paleyalso held the countrys largest
  interest in radio.

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1951

• CBS launches I Love Lucy, situation comedy which
  proved to be TV most durable type of
  entertainment programming

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1954

• Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly investigation
  of Senator Joseph McCarthy aired on CBS See It
  Now

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1955

• Quiz show scandals

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Late 1950s

• A.C. Nielson Company dominated the tv ratings
  business

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1962

• Telestar I sends the first transatlantic
  satellite broadcast

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1963

• Network TV provides nonstop coverage of the
  assassination and funeral of President JF Kennedy
• Public TV begins broadcasting as National
  Education Television (NET)

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1973

• TV Networks present live coverage of the
  Watergate hearings.

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1979

• Ted Turner started Cable News Network (CNN)

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1980

• Federal Communications Commission begins to
  deregulate the broadcast media

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1993

• 100 million people tune in for the final episode
  of Cheers