TV Broadcasting (1890-) The development of mass-media visual broadcasting and the inventions that led to its popularity. Copyright (c) 1999-2010, HistoryMole.com, All rights reserved. Page 1 1878 The Cathode ray tube is invented by Crookes an English chemist. 1880 France's Leblanc theorizes transmitting a picture in segments. 1881 First book about television, The Electric Telescope, is published 1890 Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) 1902 Otto von Bronk applies for German patent on colour television. 1906 Th screen aspect ratio of 4:3 is established as an international viewing standard. 1907 In Russia, Rosing develops a theory of television. 1907 Edouard Belin makes the first telephoto transmission, from Paris to Lyon to Bordeaux and back to Paris. 1907 Dr Lee de Forest perfects the Audion tube, a triode vacuum tube that magnifies sound. 1910 Sweden's Elkstrom invents 'flying spot' camera light beam. 1921 First transatlantic telephoto transmission is made between Annapolis, Md., and Belin's laboratories at La Malmaison, Fr. 1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is established.
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TV Broadcasting (1890-)The development of mass-media visual broadcasting and the inventions that led to its popularity.
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1878The Cathode ray tube is invented by Crookes an English chemist.
1880France's Leblanc theorizes transmitting a picture in segments.
1881First book about television, The Electric Telescope, is published
1890Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
1902Otto von Bronk applies for German patent on colour television.
1906Th screen aspect ratio of 4:3 is established as an international viewing standard.
1907In Russia, Rosing develops a theory of television.
1907Edouard Belin makes the first telephoto transmission, from Paris to Lyon to Bordeaux andback to Paris.
1907Dr Lee de Forest perfects the Audion tube, a triode vacuum tube that magnifies sound.
1910Sweden's Elkstrom invents 'flying spot' camera light beam.
1921First transatlantic telephoto transmission is made between Annapolis, Md., and Belin'slaboratories at La Malmaison, Fr.
1922The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is established.
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1923Zworykin produces an electronic iconoscope camera tube and kinescope display tube.
1923Ribbon microphone becomes the studio standard.
1923A picture, broken into dots, is sent by wire.
1923Vladimir Zworykin patents television picture tube.
1925A moving image - the blades of a model windmill - is telecast
1926John Logie Baird demonstrates an electro-mechanical disk-based Television system inLondon.
1926Bell Telephone Labs transmit film by television
1927Farnsworth assembles a complete electronic TV system
1927Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1927Bell Laboratories perform the first mechanical television transmission in United States.
1928Television sets are put in three homes - programming begins
1928In an experiment - television crosses the Atlantic
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1928In Schenectady - NY - the first scheduled television broadcasts
1928The first transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale NY
1929Experiments begin on electronic colour television.
1929In Germany, magnetic sound recordings are made on plastic tape.
1929A television studio is built in London.
1929Bell Lab transmits stills in colour by mechanical scanning.
1929Zworykin demonstrates a cathode-ray tube 'kinescope' receiver which provides 60 scanlines.
1929The first US color TV demonstration, in New York City.
1929The first regularly scheduled US TV broadcasts, 3 nights per week.
1930TVs based on British mechanical system roll off factory line
1931Electronic TV broadcasts in Los Angeles and Moscow
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1931NBC experimentally doubles transmission to 120-line screen
1932Phil T. Farnesworth demonstrates electronic television.
1934In Germany - a mobile television truck roams the streets
1936Berlin Olympics are televised closed circuit
1936The first high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1936The first US TV Gardening show
1937NBC sends mobile TV truck onto New York streets
1937A recording - the Hindenburg crash - is broadcast coast to coast
1938Broadcasts can be taped and edited
1938DuMont markets electronic television receiver for the home
1938The first public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
1939New York World's Fair shows television to public
1939Regular TV broadcasts begin
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1940The first showing of high definition color TV
1 Jul 1941Following US FCC approval, regular US scheduled commercial TV broadcasts begin.
1941CBS and NBC start commercial transmission - WW II intervenes
1941Goldmark at CBS experiments with electronic colour TV
1941First commercial television license is issued in US.
1944The first TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1947Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947The first permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (The New Jersey)
1947RCA mass produced a 7 inch TV and 170,000 of them were sold.
19471 million US TV sets had been sold.
1948Public clamor for television begins - FCC freezes new licenses
1948An airoplane re-broadcasts TV signal across nine states
1948Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
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1948Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1948First U.S. cable television systems appear.
1949Network TV in US
1949Community Antenna Television - forerunner to cable
1949Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
1949The first UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
1949Columbia Pictures converts its short-subject division to television production, beginninga trend other Hollywood studios would soon follow.
1950Vidicon camera tube improves television pictures.
1951One and a half million TV sets in US - a tenfold jump in one year
1951The first transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman
Sep 1952In the USA, private colour television test broadcasts began with 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie'.Futher test trasmissions were made in March and April of 1953.
1952Univac projects the winner of the presidential election on CBS
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1952Zenith proposes pay-TV system using punched cards
1952The first human birth televised to public from Denver, Colarado.
1952The first ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
30 Aug 1953In the USA, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' stared in the first public colour televisionbroadcast.
1953NTSC colour standard adopted in the US
1953CATV system uses microwave to bring in distant signals
1954Regular US colour TV broadcasts begin
1954Sporting events are broadcast live in colour
1954RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)
1954The first Miss America TV broadcast
1954The first TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1955Commercial TV begins in England.
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1955Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1955Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955The first microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1955The first President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
c. 1955(Between 1955-1958) Major Hollywood studios enter into 'telefilm' series production andsell or lease their pre-1948 feature films to TV syndicates.
1955First all-colour television series, 'Howdy Doody' begins.
1956"King Kong", 1st televised
1956The first video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1957A surgical operation is televised
1957Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
1957Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV.
1959Local announcements - weather data and local ads go on cable
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1959French SECAM and German PAL TV systems introduced in Europe
1959"Bonanza" premiers
1959Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
1959Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
1960Zenith unsuccessfully tests subscription TV
1960The first prime time animation show, 'The Flintstones', premiers.
1960RCA (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1961Boxing match test shows potential of pay-TV.
1961The first live television broadcast from the Soviet Union.
1961The first live, US nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK).
1962Cable companies import distant signals.
1962FCC requires UHF tuners on tv sets.
1962Telstar satellite transmits an image across the Atlantic.
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1962The Lucy Show premiers.
1963TV news 'comes of age' in reporting JFK assassination
1964"The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV
1964"The Munsters" premiers
1964The first draft of Star Trek's pilot "The Cage" released
1965Satellites begin domestic TV distribution in Soviet Union
1965Most broadcasts are in colour
1965FCC rules bring structure to cable television
1965Solid-state equipment spreads through the cable industry
1965"Lost in Space" premiers
1965The first use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite
1966"Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
1966"Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
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1966"The Monkees", premier on NBC
1967Pre-recorded movies on videotape sold for home TV sets
1967Final episode of "What's My Line?", hosted by John Charles Daly
1967Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"
1968Approx 200 million TV sets in the world - 78 million of them in the US
1968"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1968Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV
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1975With the launching of America's first commercially available geo-stationary orbitsatellite, SATCOM I, Home Box Office (HBO) initiates pay-cable television boom.
1976British TV networks begin first teletext system
1976"The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
19778th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
1977Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1977The first broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1977Matsushita Electric Industrial Company introduces its video home system (VHS), settingoff a battle for the home-video market.
1978Situation comedy "Taxi" premiers on ABC television
1978The first broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
1978TV show "Dallas" premiers on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1979Videotext provides data by television on command
1979From Holland comes the digital videodisc read by laser
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1979"The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland
197943 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1980Intelsat V relays 12 thousand phone calls and 2 colour TV channels
1980CNN 24-hour news channel
1980Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
1981"Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins, premiereson ABC-TV
1981"Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
1981Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981MTV premiers
1981MTV begins broadcasting.
1983100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After", about nuclear war
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1983Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers
1983Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1984A television set can be worn on the wrist
1985US TV networks begin satellite distribution to affiliates
1985At Expo - a Sony TV screen measures 40x25 meters
19853-D television is developed In Japan and no spectacles are needed
1985Pay-per-view channels open for business in the US
1985"Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
1986HBO scrambles its signals
1986US Cable shopping networks
1987Half of all US homes with TV are on cable
1987US Government deregulates cable industry
1989217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
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1989Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1989Time Inc. announces the purchase of Warner Communications, Inc, forming the world'slargest media and entertainment conglomerate.
1990"Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premiers on ABC-TV
1991356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
1991DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
1993274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
1993Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1994Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
1995Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
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1997Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series incartoon history
