Download - Television Programming
Television Programming
An Operations Overview: Past, Present, & Future
Summary
Brief TimelineSignificance of the VTRFrom VTR to Digital File ServerOperations and the digital networkMultimedia ConvergenceTheories Applied Conclusion
A Brief Television Timeline
1900 Sarnoff emigrates to the U.S. from Russia at age 9
Professor Reginald A. Fessenden transmits speech without wires
1904 Vacuum tube diode developed by Fleming
1905 Nipkow disc demonstrated Cathode-ray picture tube (CRT) demonstrated
1910-19201910 First federal communication law,
the Wireless Ship Act, enacted1912 Sarnoff intercepts first distress
message from the doomed ship Titanic1915 First practical radio telephone
communications system constructed by Bell Labs
1916 A.C. Nielsen Company is formed
1920-401920 KDKA airs the world's first scheduled
radio broadcast from Pittsburgh WWJ, Detroit, begins operation
1926 National Broadcasting Company founded “NBC”
1927 Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System founded “CBS”
1928 Federal Radio Commission established1934 FCC established as a permanent
regulatory agency
1940-19501940 Paramount puts first TV station on the air
in Chicago1942 Digital computer conceived
-Sarnoff awarded the rank of Brigadier General1947 First taped US radio network program
airs, featuring Bing Crosby3M introduces Scotch 100 audio tape
1950-1960
1952 FCC approves UHF-TV broadcastingAmpex VTR team reproduces barely
recognizable picture from tape1956 First VTR demonstrated by Ampex at
National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (hereafter referred to as NAB), using un-tested experimental 3M 2-inch videotape
1958 Ampex demonstrates color VTR
Before the VTR
QuadraplexToo Largesteel tapes were
impossible to edit
Ampex Corporation’s VTR
The Quad- First VTR Invented
The VTR Advances
Ampex VR 660 1960s bring more
advancesSmaller MachinesBetter Mobility
From VTR to Digital File Server
Multimedia Convergence
Where is it all going?