Unit Subtitle: Brief History of American Television Broadcasting Media Technology Unit Subtitle: Brief History of American Television Broadcasting ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Trade & Industrial Education

Broadcasting - a young media 1700’s newspapers in US 1837 telegraph 1876 telephone 1920 1st commercially licensed radio station-KDKA Pittsburgh, Penn. 1948 TV’s in homes Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television Development 1920’s Many people/companies experimenting with and developing TV 1926 Philo T. Farnsworth, American, experimented with electronic TV – stream of electrons 1928 Vladimir Zworykin develop/refines iconoscope tube Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television Development 1928 1st TV Drama Broadcast “The Queen’s Messenger” from GE station 1931 CBS - experimental scheduled TV 1935 Electronic TV is demonstrated to press Few people have TV’s Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television Development 1936 Germany televises Olympics Britain few hours of regular programming a day 1939 RCA presents TV at New York World’s Fair Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television Development 1941 FCC authorizes TV broadcast 1942 CBS 15 hours programming per week 1945 150 applications for TV stations Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

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 Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Color Television 1950 Korean War slows color TV progress 1950 FCC announces CBS mechanical color system negative response from stations, public 1951 National Television System Committee (NTSC) explores color Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Cable Television 1950 Community Antenna Television (CATV) 1952 AT&T installs coaxial cable in large cities, reduces ghosting Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Color Television 1952 FCC lifts TV freeze FCC approves UHF Old TV’s don’t get UHF, Ruling-- all new TV’s must have both VHF and UHF 1953 FCC approves NTSC compatible electronic color system Korean War ends Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Video recorders 1956 Ampex demonstrates videotapes recorder 1963 Sony home VTR $995 Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television 1950’s Live dramatic series 1952-60 Rampant growth in TV 108 stations in 1952, 522 in 1960 1960 90% homes have TV’s Only NBC had color programming 1960’s Large variety of TV programs Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television 1966 All 3 networks have color 1967 Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 authorized Corporation for Public Broadcasting Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Television 1980 1% of homes have VCRs Consumer camcorder by Sony 1984 Stereo AM & TV FCC begins deregulation Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Cable Television 1972 FCC ends ban cable TV in large cities HBO starts pay TV for cable 1977 2 way cable in Columbus Ohio Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Cable Television 1980 CNN begins 1981 MTV on cable 1987 50% of homes w/ TV have cable 1998 Digital compression used in cable 2004 More than 30% of US cable - approximately 22.9 million - receive digital cable service Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education

Digital Television 1997 DVD introduced FCC rules - all US SDTV stations must be DTV by 2006, now 2009 1999 Stations begin broadcasting Digital TV and wide screen HDTV 2004 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 Safety rules protect you and those around you from injury.   Whose responsibility is safety and health in the classroom laboratory? (Students’, teachers’, everyone’s) ©2006 Texas Trade and Industrial Education Media Technology I - TV History Trade & Industrial Education