The story of television

Evolution of Television

By billiemaher1995

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    George Carey envisions the television
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    Evolution of the TV

    A timeline depicting key moments in the development of the television from 1876 to 2006.

  • The first television

    The first television, if you could call it that, was introduced at The World Fair in Paris in 1900.

  • Development of the moving picture

    an invention by John Baird

  • The first long distance television test

    A success! it ran from Washington D.C. to New York

  • Birth of the first TV station

    Birth of the first TV station
    FIRST TV STATIONit was named W3XK and owned by Charles Jenkins

  • TV reaches Germany and England

    First TV broadcast to reach Germany and England

  • The first major television network - CBS

  • First TV sets sold

    First TV sets sold
    First TV sets sold in the United States

  • The first cable system is developed in rural areas.

  • Colour TV released to the public

  • Television households hit the 20 mil. Mark.

  • Color TV broadcasts begin.

    Color TV broadcasts begin.

  • First presidential news conference televised

    Kennedy holds first live television news conference

  • Telstar communications satellite provides first international relay of TV pictures.

  • Cable TV hits the one mil. Subscriber mark.

  • The Moon Broadcast

    The world watched the first moon landing via television.

  • Warner Communications launches the Qube Network in Columbus Ohio

    Qube offered ten broadcast TV channels, ten premium channels and ten interactive programming channels. (Two original Qube programs, Pinwheel and Sight on Sound, blossomed into Nickolodeon and MTV, respectively).

  • PrimeStar laucnches the first Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite TV service.

  • Satellite TV reaches the one mil. Subscriber mark.

  • The first flat screen TV

    developed by panasonic

  • Personal TV market projected to reach 13.4 million subscribers