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Television 1950-1961
Between 1953 and 1955, television programming began to take some steps away from radio formats. NBC television president Sylvester Weaver devised the "spectacular," a notable example of which was Peter Pan (1955), starring Mary Martin, which attracted 60 million viewers. Weaver also developed the magazine-format programs Today, which made its debut in 1952 with Dave Garroway as host (until 1961), and The Tonight Show, which began in 1953 hosted by Steve Allen (until 1957). The third network, ABC -
Television 1920-1939
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033336/infographic-of-the-day/how-the-television-has-evolvedElectronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14. While still in high school, Farnsworth had begun to conceive of a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. -
Television 1961-1970
In 1964 color broadcasting began on prime-time television. The FCC initially approved a CBS color system, then swung in RCA's favor after Sarnoff swamped the marketplace with black-and-white sets compatible with RCA color (the CBS color system was not compatible with black-and-white sets and would have required the purchase of new sets). During the 1960s and 1970s a country increasingly fascinated with television was limited to watching almost exclusively what appeared on the three major network -
Television 1970-1980
In the 1980s, home videocassette recorders became widely available. Viewers gained the ability to record and replay programs and, more significantly, to rent and watch movies at times of their own choosing in their own homes. Video games also became popular during this decade, particularly with the young, and the television, formally just the site of passive entertainment, became an intricate, moving, computerized game board. The number of cable networks grew throughout the 1980s and then explod -
Television 2001
2001
The average American adult watches 4 hours of television daily.
Multi-casting begins when WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina simultaneously broadcasts on one of its digital
channels along with its regular CBS programming.
Movie box office receipts in U.S. climb to $8.4 billion. -
Television 2002
2002
DVD sales surpass VCR sales; 40+ million U.S. homes have DVD capability and there are more than 21,000
titles available.
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is the first big budget film shot with digital cameras.
MTV reports that it reaches 250 million homes worldwide -
Television 2003
2003
More DVDs than videotapes are rented, 46.7% of U.S. households own at least one player, and consumers
buy more than 1 billion DVD's.
Cable television companies offer TiVo-like features: storing programs and skipping commercials. -
Television 2004
2003
More DVDs than videotapes are rented, 46.7% of U.S. households own at least one player, and consumers
buy more than 1 billion DVD's.
Cable television companies offer TiVo-like features: storing programs and skipping commercials. -
Television 2004
A little more than 98% of American households have a television and the average home has more than two.
Twenty CBS'-owned stations are fined a total of $550,000 by the FCC after a "wardrobe malfunction" during
the Super Bowl half-time program
Basic cable networks' ratings beat out the no-charge, local broadcast networks in the first week of the fall
season.
GE now owns the NBC, Telemundo, Bravo, CNBC, USA, SciFi and Trio networks, as well as Universal Studio,
Universal's 5,000 film library -
Television 2005
Time-Warner/AOL offers telephone service, in addition to cable television and internet access. -
Television 2015
According to estimates provided to critics and reporters last week by the research team at FX Networks, more than 400 original scripted English-language series — just in prime time, not counting game shows, reality shows, documentary shows, daytime or nighttime talk shows, news or sports — will air on American television in 2015 before the year is out, meaning your one-show-a-day plan would come up painfully short. -
Television 2000's
DVD players take over the home theater experience. Much like the VCR, DVD players were introduced a decade earlier, but took some time to gain momentum. At the beginning of the decade, DVD players were in approximately seven percent of homes; in less than 10 years, more than 80 percent of homes had a DVD player. Thin is in. Advances in LCD and Plasma technology enable television manufacturers to produce a better picture, larger screen sizes and save space. The “home theater” experience was in th
