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  • First Television

    First Television
    The first t'v ever made, it was a mechanical television and was made in the Unitedd States.
  • Mechanical TV

    worlds first public demonstration of a mechanical tv to about 40 people of the royal institution in his laboratory
  • The Radio Act

    The Radio Act (repealed in 1934) regulates programming, airwaves can only be used with government permission.The Federal Radio Commission is established.
  • Theater Television

    RKO experiments with theater television bringing up to date news and sportscasts to the movies.
  • 1st television commercial

    Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first commerical and is fined by the FRC.
  • CBS experiments television programming

    CBS experiments television programming
  • W9XK state university of Iowa

    1st television broadcast from an educational institution
  • Electronic television

    Very slow to come to U.S
  • Peter Goldmark

    Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resultion color tv system.
  • War

    For he remainder of ww2, all commercial production of tv equipment is banned.
  • TV sets

    5,343,000 tv sets are in american homes.
  • RCA

    RCA sells 20000 color sets of tvs and most were 21 inch sized
  • Ampex videotape

    Ampex introduces the first practical videotape system of broadcast quality.
  • Remote control

    Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control called the Zenith Space Commander.
  • Split-screen broadcast

    The first split screen broadcast occurs on the Kennedy - Nixon debates.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John f kennedy is sworn in to office and is broadcasted on colored tv sets
  • The moon

    First TV transmission from the moon and 600 million people watch.
  • VCR

    sony introduced the first betamax format of the vcr and retailed at 1295 dollars
  • PBS

    First TV network to do all programming via satellite instead of landlines.
  • Primestar

    Primestar is launched as the first north american DBS service.
  • Cable Companies

    15 billion dollars spent on wiring tv's
  • Created streaming video

    victorias secret fashion show is broadcasted online reaching 2 million viewers.
  • DVD's take over

    home theater experience is revolutionized with DVD's.
  • Echostar

    echostars dish network went online in the United States
  • first 42 inch plasma tv

    sells for $15,000
  • HDTV

    commercial hdtv sets start to appear in consumer markets
  • The first DVR is shipped to homes

    Now you can record and pause tv whenever you want.
  • Sony

    the first commercial LED backlit LCD tv was the sony qualia 005
  • Netflix moves from DVD to streaming

    This was a response due to demand form the customers.
  • Fade to black

    All analog tv's go black and all regular tv's go digital.
  • 110 million U.S adults

    110 million U.S adults watch digital video via a connected tv.