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First Electronic Television
The First Electronic Televison was succesfully demonstrated in San Francisco by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.While still in high school, Farnsworth had begun to conceive of a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm -
RCA Televised the oppening of the Worlds Fair
In 1939, RCA televised the opening of the New York World's Fair, including a speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was the first president to appear on television. https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm -
Cable Television Is First Introduced
Beginning almost simultaneously in Arkansas, Oregon and Pennsylvania in 1948, cable originally brought distant over-the-air television signals from miles away to mountainous or geographically remote areas.
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First Televised Presidential Nominating Conventions
Television news first covered the presidential nominating conventions of the two major parties, events then still at the heart of America politics, in 1952. The term "anchorman" was used, probably for the first time, to describe Walter Cronkite's central role in CBS's convention coverage that year. In succeeding decades these conventions would become so concerned with looking good on television that they would lose their spontaneity and eventually their news value. https://www.nyu.edu/classes/ -
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Golden Age of Television
Between 1953 and 1955, television programming began to take some steps away from radio formats. NBC television president Sylvester Weaver devised the "spectacular," a notable example of which was Peter Pan (1955), starring Mary Martin, which attracted 60 million viewers. -
First Plasma TV
In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch (53 cm) full-color display. It was a hybrid, the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display -
Televised Trial of OJ Simpson
the trial of former football star O. J. Simpson in 1994 for the murder of his wife further demonstrated the hold that cable networks had on American audiences. https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm -
Inroduction of Televison Ratings
the television industry decided to display ratings of its programs in 1996.TV-G (for general audiences), TV-PG (parental guidance suggested), TV-14 (unsuitable for children under 14), and TV-MA (for mature audiences only).later they added other ratings such as V (for violence), S (for sex), L (for course language) and D (for suggestive dialogue) https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm
