Tv Is 65 Years Old Today !!!!

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HERE IS A HISTORY LESSON FOR ALL OF US.

Channel 1: TV's Humble Start 65 Years Ago Today
LiveScience Staff

LiveScience.comSat Jul 1, 12:00 PM ET


It's hard to imagine in today's media-filled world that some people can still remember when there was no television.

TV got going 65 years ago today, when the first scheduled television program was broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company from the Empire State Building in New York City.

The July 1, 1941 broadcast, considered the first commercial effort, was on Channel 1.

Two months earlier, the Federal Communications Commission had granted commercial television licenses to the first 10 stations, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

It would only be a few months later, however, when American involvement in World War II interrupted the the development of television for half a decade. Once it got going, however, there was no stopping the growth.

By 1946, there were 30 TV stations on the air. Ten years later, that number had risen to almost 500.

Now, there are 1,349 commercial television stations operating across the country, the Census Bureau reports.

When the World Trade Center was built, most New York City TV stations moved their antennas there. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, however, most are again broadcasting from the Empire State Building.

Wow...what we take for granted today...in looking at some old Life magazines of the WWII era, I found an advertisment about "television"...it talked about being able to see around the corner or across town and even in COLOR !!!

Look how television has evolved....

Tell me some of your favorite moents of "TeeVee"....

mark tssb

[rtaylor61]

Many thanks to Mr. Farnsworth!

Randy

[yasuo200365]

That may have been the first in the US, but actually TV broadcasting is almost 70 years old.

Extracts from the History of the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/story/history_text.shtml

Television arrives
Against the instincts of John Reith, who never saw the value of television, the BBC was asked to test two rival television systems. Thus, on 2 November 1936 the BBC opened the world's first regular service of high-definition television from Alexandra Palace in North London. The home favourite was the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, who had achieved a world first by transmitting a foggy image 11 years earlier. But his mechanical system proved a non-starter, and after just two months the US-backed electronic system developed by EMI-Marconi was formally adopted.

Like radio, the world's first regular high-definition television service developed rapidly between 1936 and 1939. Many ambitious outside broadcasts were made, including King George VI's coronation procession on May 12, 1937. This 'small miracle', as the press called it, was seen on television by only 10,000 people. Other important landmarks include the first Wimbledon coverage (June 1937) and the first FA Cup Final coverage (April 30, 1938).

Regards
John

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Many thanks to Mr. Farnsworth!

Randy

Philo T. Farnsworth certainly has one of history's more entertaining names- right up there with Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

Unlike the internet, TV was the culmination of several disciplines, and no single person can really lay claim to the title of "inventor".

[rtaylor61]

Philo T. Farnsworth certainly has one of history's more entertaining names- right up there with Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

Unlike the internet, TV was the culmination of several disciplines, and no single person can really lay claim to the title of "inventor".

Okay, but I'm not thanking Al Gore for anything!

Randy

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