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1st Television
Electronic T.V. was first demonstrted succussfully in San Francisco. -
First Presidential Debut
RCA Televised the opening of New York Worlds Fair including a speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first president to appear on television. -
Rising number of televisions in house holds
6000 television sets in homes by 1946 and by the time 1951 came around there were 12 million -
Beginning of Commerical Television
In 1979 Americans who lived within range of the growing number of television stations the country could watch differennt shows that came on. -
Korean and cold war
CBS news established television reporting from the korean and cold war -
Amount of televisions
Over 7 million tv sets in circulation -
CBS Premier of I Love Lucy
First Premier -
Limited T.V Networks
Though the 1960's-1970's T.V was limited to 3 major networks : NBC, CBS, ABC -
Civil Rights Footage
Footage of civil rights demonstraters being atacked by police and fire hoses was broadcasted -
Presidential Adress
President Johnson adressed americans on tv about ordering an air strike against vietnameese -
Color Broadcasting
Color broadcasting began -
Simple Commedies Became Broadcasted
Ex: Beverly Hillbillys -
Violoence Ratings
Television started using G, PG, PG-13, and R to describe the age level suggested for viewing -
Ratings
Television first started displaying ratings to the viewers -
Public Broadcasting
They created the fourth non-commercial public tevelvision network PBS -
First Televised Broadcast from Space
Apallo 11 sent the first televised broadcast from space -
Televised Transmission from Space
Apallo 11 made the first television transmissions from space -
Sesame Street Debu
This was the most influential education program for pre-schoolers -
Statistics
Majority of americans relied on television than on newspapars -
Cable
There were more than 80,000 cable subscribers in New York -
Olympic Games
ABC covered and broadcasted the american games -
ESPN
First Live broadcast of ESPN -
Reality Shows Began
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Channels Increase
In 1980's and 1990's the public cable newtwork increased the numer of channels due to the government network starting to fall -
Caset Recorers
Video and Caset recorders first came out -
CNN
CNN was first broadcasted -
Expansion
Alot of the countries around the world began moving towards privatley owned television networks -
Sadam Huessen
They braodcasted war -
Persian Gulf War
Tevelision kept up with the troops and bomb occurances -
T.V. on the Internet
T.V. broadcasts were available on the internet, not onlt the television -
HDTV
High definition television was first debued