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?