1. A Walk Through History

2. 1830's • Photography
William Talbot
“Father of Modern Photography”

3. 1844 • Telegraph Samuel Morse: refined technology
What hath God Wrought? 1st message.

4. 1876 • Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
“Talking Voice Machine”

5. 1877 • Phonograph
Thomas Edison--low quality--

6. 1893 • Motion Pictures
Thomas Edison invented kinescope.

7. 1897 • Wireless Telegraph
G. Marconi
True “Father of Radio”

8. 1907 • Radio Lee DeForest begins broadcasting Radio
Called himself “Father of Radio”

9. 1912 • Titanic strikes an iceberg-April 14th
Radio Act of 1912 (Ship-to-Shore/license to broadcast)

10. 1915 • Long Distance telephone
AT&T

11. 1917 • WWI
Commercial radio on hold, military use only

12. 1919 • GE forms RCA
General Electric forms Radio Corporation of America to make and distribute radio sets

13. 1926 • RCA forms NBC
Radio Corporation of America forms the National Broadcasting Company
NBC links radio stations
NBC provides programming
Thought was NBC would help RCA sell more sets if there was regularly scheduled programming

14. 1927 • Radio Act of 1927:
Federal Radio Commission formed--forerunner to FCC
Radio Freeze
License required

15. 1931 • Radio in half of nation's homes

16. 1934 • Communication Act of 1934
FRC changed to Federal Communication Commission
Includes new technology--television
Current document governing communication industry
Communication Act of 1934

17. 1936 • Television is field tested

18. 1938 • War of the Worlds Orson Welles adaptation of HG Wells
Caused wide spread panic

19. 1939 • Television is demonstrated to public at New York World's Fair
RCA’s standard

20. 1940 • FM demonstrated Frequency Modulation Edwin Howard Armstrong
“Father of FM”

21. 1940 Computer first used Rooms full of equipment
Vacuum tubes--very hot
More power in your calculator

22. 1941 • WWII, Commercial TV on hold, military use
WWII a radio war
Newspapers & Newsreels supplemented

23. 1943 • NBC sells blue network--
Duopoly ruling--NBC cannot have two networks
Blue network becomes ABC

24. 1945 • Televisions goes back into production
Large demand, GI’s and nation ready for consumer goods and to be entertained

25. 1946 • Mobile Telephones First introduced for other than police & fire
Large & expensive
Cumbersome to use
From car--know tower, talk to operator to place call
To car-call operator and give approx. location of mobile
Only 44,000 mobile users nationwide up to the by mid 1980’s --only 54 channels
Waiting list for mobile phones years
Max. per city 250 users --long wait for open line to place call

26. 1948 • 45's and LP's hit market
Battle of the mediums--people quit buying records
45’s “kids medium”
LP’s “parents” primarily for classical music

27. 1949 • WE 500 Rotary Dial Phone Most popular telephone of all time
(Deregulation = cheap phones)
Worked with party lines

28. 1949 • Inauguration telecast for first time live

29. 1949 • CATV formed
Rocky Mountains
Appliance store

30. 1951 • Time of Change Movie attendance drops
Radios are available in half the cars in the nation
First coast-to-coast network broadcast

31. 1952 • UHF joins VHF

32. 1954 • Television available in more than half the nation's homes

33. 1955 • Color television patented
RCA’s system

34. 1956 • Magnetic video recorder--price tag $75,000.
First use of videotape by networks

35. 1960 • Photocopiers developed
Birth of Xerox
Rochester, NY

36. 1962 • New Technologies First Satellite relays TV programs
Cassette tapes introduced

37. 1963 • Kennedy Assassination
Oswald is murdered--first "real murder" airs live
TV plays an important role in bringing together a grieving nation

38. 1963 • Civil Rights Movement
Television “Revolution in a Box”
Television visual medium

39. 1964 • Television & Telephone
Instant replay begins in sports
All TV's had to have both bands
Push button telephones--10 button vs. 12 button

40. 1965 • All color primetime
“In Color”

41. 1969 • Out of this World & Around the world
Moon landing telecast live
Birth of the Internet?
2 machines hooked together to form ARPANET which grew into the internet
1983 protocol of TCP/IP became standard

42. 1971 • Cigarette advertisements banned from television
Did not ban product placements
Did not ban billboards

43. 1973 • Fax machines debut

44. 1975 • VCR's for home use
Large & Expensive
Cumbersome to use

45. 1977 • Cable/Computers Fibre optic cable demonstrated
Apple Computer debut for home use

46. 1979 • Personal Entertainment
Home satellites are available
Walkman's available
FM first surpasses AM in total national listeners

47. 1983 • Advancing Technology
Camcorders merge camera with recorder
Compact discs for consumer use

48. 1985 • For Sale
ABC, NBC, CBS all get new owners

49. 1986 • New Network
Fox Network debuts--experts predict failure

50. 1988 • Both cable and VCR's in more than half the nation's homes

51. 1990 • HDTV standards decided
2005 All stations must broadcast in HDTV
2006 All analog signals will be switched off
Require new set or converter box
Sets $5,000 - $15,000
Converters $300

52. 1996 • Telecommunications Act of 1996
TV ratings
V-Chip
HDTV
Warning labels on TV’s and VCR’s after July 1999

53. 1996 • New Networks WB & UPN join crowded spectrum
Death of UPN August 14, 2000?
Duopoly rule: Murdock’s Fox bought UPN’s Chris-Craft
$8.4 Billion deal for 10 stations

54. 1997 • TV Ratings begins airing
Congressional Hearings Held in Peoria
Added FV, D, L, S, V letters
Parental program guide or Tot helper?

55. 1998 • First experimental HDTV broadcast
Jay Leno First network program to broadcast in HDTV Fall 1999
Half the nation can receive HDTV signals Fall 2000

56. 1998 • Clinton Impeachment
Nation watched impeachment hearings

57. 2001 • High Tech Buyout America Online merges with Time/Warner
Major implications in media
Integration of internet (AOL, Netscape), e-commerce, with TW vast media holdings including networks (WB, HBO, CNN), cable outlets (TW Cable), book publishing, magazines (SI, People), film (Warner Brothers, Newline) and music (Warner, Atlantic).

58. The winner… DVD vs. VHS
Consumers purchased more DVD’s than Videos for first time-2001
Rental of DVD/VHS tied
Circuit City, Borders ditch VHS-2002
1 Billionth DVD sold - Summer 2002
HD-DVD on horizon
Blue DVD will hold more information--2004

59. Satellite Radio Signal from satellite Many choices
Won’t drive out of signal area
Installed in many General Motors vehicles
Two different companies

60. Landlines on Life Support?
20-25% of Americans drop landlines in favor of wireless-2010
AT&T signals move by selling off landline business & asks for FCC for ruling requiring maintaining landlines-2010

62. 2001 • HDTV Prices fall for new sets--range $1500-$2000
NAB predicts 1/3 of commercial stations will not make 2002 deadline
NCTA: cable won’t carry both signals--at stake 70 million households

63. 2001 • Cell phone 500,000 drivers using cell phones at any given time
New York banned use of cell phones while driving--1st state to do so

64. 1500 BC Alphabet

65. 1992 • Carson retires, setting off late-night battle to ascend to throne