Audio Video Production History of American Broadcasting Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.  Trade & Industrial Education

Broadcasting: A Young Media KDKA In Pittsburgh PA Newspapers in USA Television in homes Telephone 1700’s 1837 1876 1920 1948 Telegraph First commercially licensed radio station Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television Development 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. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television Development 1928 1st TV Drama broadcast “The Queen’s Messenger” from GE Station 1931 Regularly scheduled TV begins CBS experimental station 1935 Electronic TV is demonstrated to the press Few people have TVs Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television Development 1936 1939 Germany: televises Olympics. Britain: few hours of regular programming a day. RCA presents TV at New York World’s Fair. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television Development 1941 CBS 15 hours programming per week. 1945 1942 FCC authorizes TV broadcast. 150 applications for TV stations Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Color Television During WWII, CBS experimented with color 1932- 1945 CBS presents non-compatible mechanical color system. 1946 FCC refuses CBS color request. 1947 50 TV stations on air, 124 authorized. FCC: four year freeze on new TV licenses. 1948 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Color Television 1950 1951 Korean War slows color TV progress. FCC announces CBS mechanical color system. Negative response from stations, public. 1950 National Television System Committee (NTSC) explores color. 1951 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Cable Television 1950 1952 Community Antenna Television (CATV) AT&T installs coaxial cable in large cities, reduces ghosting. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Color Television 1952 1953 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 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Ampex demonstrates videotapes Video Recorders 1956 Ampex demonstrates videotapes 1963 Sony home VTR $995 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television 1950’s 1952 1960 1960’s Live dramatic series. Rampant growth in TV, from 108 in ‘52… 1960’s Large variety of TV programs. 1960 …to 522 stations. 90% of homes have TVs. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television 1966 All 3 networks have color. 1967 Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 authorized the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1967 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Television 1980 1984 Consumer camcorder by Sony. 1% of homes have VCRs. Consumer camcorder by Sony. 1984 Stereo AM & TV. FCC begins deregulation. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Cable Television 1972 1977 FCC ends ban on cable TV in large cities. HBO starts “pay TV” for cable. 1972 Two-way cable in Columbus, Ohio. 1977 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Cable Television CNN begins MTV on cable 1980 CNN begins 1981 MTV on cable 1987 50% of homes with TV have cable 1998 Digital compression used in cable 2004 More than 30% (around 22.9 million) of U.S. cable receive digital cable service Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

Digital Television DVD introduced. FCC rules: all U.S. SDTV stations must be DTV by 2006, now 2009. 1997 Stations begin broadcasting Digital TV and wide screen HDTV. 1999 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. 2004 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

2006 2009 2010 Digital Television 3-D TV sets go on sale in U.S. 1000+ U.S. digital TV stations on the air. Consumers buy HDTV sets in significant numbers. 2009 Broadcast TV in U.S. goes all digital. Most analog TV transmitters shut down. 2010 3-D TV sets go on sale in U.S. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2012. All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. 

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