television broadcasting history
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LOGO
Television Fever in the 1930s
� NBC began experimental broadcasts in New York in 1932
�David Sarnoff announced RCA was ready to investment $1-million in TV
�In 1939 NBC began regular service, starting off with the World’s Fairstarting off with the World’s Fair
�Other Networks: CBS (1939) & DuMont (1940)
�FCC Authorized commercial TV beginning on July 1, 1941
�WNBT (NY) became 1st commercial station with 15 hours of programming a week
Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941
NBC Red Network - Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenadewith Sammy and his Orchestra, Tommy Ryan, Alan
Foster, and the Three Kaydettes.
KDKA., Pittsburgh, PA 4:30 P.M.
Seattle Station issues emergency
instructions for the evening
Development Slowed
World War II
�Improvements in TV came to abrupt halt.
�Defense Communications Board stopped construction of
stations
�Existing TV stations used for defense related programming
�Only 6 stations on air, broadcasting a few irregular hours a �Only 6 stations on air, broadcasting a few irregular hours a day
�Fewer than 10,000 receivers.
Korean War
� At end of war, corporations ready to advertise goods
� Consumers with savings ready to spend
� AT & T constructed intercity coaxial cable links
� FCC ready to license stations after war
� 1945 - NBC network to Philadelphia, New York, & Schenectady
� 1948 -- 36 TV stations on air & 70 under construction
� Because of interference, FCC declared a freeze�
� Korean war prolonged freeze
Continuing Improvement
• 1951 – Cable across U.S.
• Magnetic videotape late ’50s (live
% of U.S Families with TV sets
80
100
’50s (live programming/reruns
• Price of sets
• falling
• b
0
20
40
60
1953 1960
The Boom is On
�FCC Lifted its freeze in 1952
�Existing VHF channels (2 – 13) supplemented with VHF (14 – 83)
�Backlog of 700 applications – 175 �Backlog of 700 applications – 175 granted
�1953 – 377 stations on air
Filling the Hours
�Transferred about 24 popular programs from radio
�The smash was Texaco Star Theater with comedian Milton Berle -19481948
�Major stimulus for purchase of sets in 1948 & 1949.
�Presidential Campaign of 52 (Eisenhower v Stevenson) was a hit also
Movies
• Studios wanted nothing to do with TV
• Eventually saw market potential
• By 1954, studios start producing showsproducing shows
• By 1956 selling rights to old feature films
• During Korean War attendance dropped 20% to 40%
• Dozens of theaters closed
News
• Like radio at first
• Ampex made first practical videotape machine in 1956
• 1963 is the year of change
Color TV
• CBS Began limited broadcasting in color in 1951
• RCAQ system approved in 1954,approved in 1954,
• Expensive ($1,000 at first)
• 1965 – 15% of stations able to broadcast in color
Living Room War
• Vietnam (’61-75)
• Could film almost anything
• Stressed success & value at firstvalue at first
• Images told another story
• Tet Offensive of ’68, a turning point
Tet Offensive 1968