1. The Media: TELEVISION Students: Ana Rita Costa nº 3 Bruna Lourenço nº 5 Pedro Teixeira nº 19 Raquel Gordinho nº 20 Vera Loureiro nº 27 ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA DA RAMADA Teacher: Maria Lúcia Massano

2. Introduction History ; The Inventor of the television; The Evolution on the television; Importance for the society (advantages and disadvantages); Comparison of Portuguese channels with English; More important channels; We launch a question now, to which we will go to answer in the end of our work: "It will be that the television is best the media?" In the English class, we go to develop the subject "the media - television", for being an interesting and current subject. We go to approach the following sub-subjects:

3. History The first experiences with the emission of television in black color-and-white in Portugal had started in the year of 1949. However, the official inauguration of the television in Portugal would have its date marked for the month of September of 1956. The history of the television must it great mathematicians and physicists, pertaining to accurate sciences that had delivered for sciences human beings a great powerful e vehicle. Since the beginning of century XIX, the scientists were worried about the transmission of images in the distance and were with invent it of Alexander Bain, in 1842, that it was gotten telegraphic transmission of an image (fac-simile), currently known as fax. In 1817, Swedish chemistry Jons Jakob Berzelius discovered the Selenium, but only 56 years later, in 1873, that the Willoughby English Smith proved that the it had Selenium the property to transform luminous energy into electric energy. Through this discovery the transmission of images by means of electric chain could be formulated. In 1884, the young German Paul Nipkow invented a record with orifices in spiral with the same distance between itself that he made with that the object if subdivided in small elements that together formed an image. In March of 1935, the television in Germany, and November in France is emitted officially, being the Eiffel Tower the emitting rank. In 1936, London uses images with definition of 405 lines and inaugurates it regular station of the BBC. In the following year, three electronics chambers transmit the ceremony of the Crown of Jorge VI, with about fifty a thousand viewers.

4. The inventor of televison John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946) Baird was a Scottish engineer, most famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working television. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, the son of a clergyman.

5. The Evolution on the television? The first system of codification of colour to appear was the NTSC, American, in 1953. After had appeared SECAM to French and the PAL to Dutch. The system PAL was adopted in our country. Currently is available the technology to make the codification, emission and reception of the signal of television under the digital form. The television has an important paper in the current society. It just expanded definitively in the decade of 50, with the multiplication of sales of TV. As propagate of information and instrument of entertainment, the television influences the life of the citizens, shapes the beliefs and the value to them. The informative dimension of the television in the current world cannot leave of being appreciated.

6. The Evolution on the television? With the revolution of telecommunications, the possibilities of sending information to the world-wide scale had been multiplied. In Portugal, it gave to the first steps of black and white, 4th of September of 1956. The regular emitions were started in 7th of March of 1957. In that height, it only could be caught in Lisbon. At the next years RTP it would arrive at the Porto, to the Madeira and to Açores, and later it would cover the national territory. It is in 1977 that the Age of the soap operas is inaugurated. The television for handle appeared in Portugal in 1994 and allowed the appearance of more national and foreign televising channels, providing to the viewer a varied fan more of choices.

7. The Evolution on the television?

8. Importance for the society? Nowadays, television-set is in almost every house, often even more than one. People spend a lot of time, watching tv programs. It has become a part of life for many people. It is hard to say is the television good or bad because there is many both advantages and disadvantages of it.

9. The television is a huge source of informations, knowledge and entertainment. There are plenty of channels with different topics. It provides every kind of information and entertainment: great films, shows, documentaries, science programs, cartoons and so on. You can watch the newest informations from all the world, it helps you to be up-to-date. Watching television can be also great way to spend a free time. There are some really interesting programs about for example our hobbies. It can by also good way to spend evening, watching curious films. ADVANTAGENS

10. It become to be very popular and common. Almost everyone has his own tv-set. People spend to much time watching stupid programs and shows. They become a slaves of 21' black box. You can't talk with them about anything isn't connected with television. Their life is depend on tv-schedule. The whole families watches television are having dinner, spending their free time in this way. Instead of going to the park, wood, to the lake or for a trip. Nowadays there is many violence on tv. The children are watching full of violence and brutality cartoons and movies. They spend whole day siting in front of tv. DISADVENTAGENS

11. Comparison of Portuguese and English channels ? A BBC is “British Broadcasting Corporation”. The corporation produces programmes and information services, broadcasting on television, radio, and the Internet. The stated mission of the BBC is "to inform, educate and entertain“. TelevisionRadio BBC One BBC Two BBC Three BBC Four CBBC CBeebies BBC News 24 BBC Parliament BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 4 FM BBC Radio Five Live BBC Five Live Sports Extra 1Xtra BBC 6Music BBC 7 BBC World Service Asian Network

12. RTP is “Radio and Television of Portugal” RTP 1 is a Portuguese television station of RTP network. It was the first television network to be founded in Portugal It's the first channel of Portuguese TV and one of the most watched networks in the country. TelevisionRadio RTP 1 RTP 2 RTP Açores RTP Madeira RTP Internacional RTP Africa RTP N RTP Memoria RTP Mobile Antena 1 Antena 2 Antena 3 RDP Internacional RDP Africa RDP Madeira-antena 1 RDP Madeira-antena 3 RDP Açores-antena 1 RDP- Rádio Difusão Portuguesa ” Portuguese Radio Broadcasting “

13. More important channels News: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation); ITN (Independent Television News); SKY (Sky news and Sky Digital); London News Network Entertainment: Bravo; Carlton Select; Channel 4; ITV (Independent Television); S4C (Welsh 4th channel). Music: Trouble Tv The TV stations of United Kingdom are: Cartoons: Cartoon Network; Disney Channel; TTC (The Children's Channel). Documentaries: Landscane Channel; NASTA (National Student Television Association) Travel (Landmark Travel Channel) Adults: Live Tv; Television X (The Fantasy Channel)

14. Conclusion We think that with this work, and this information, that television is one of the most important ways of communication, and a excellent entertainer. The question of the introduction, is all ready answered. So the television is the best media of all