The History of TV and Where TV is Headed

By Shelby, Libby Jean, Grant, and Andrea

History of TV

How it all started…*1875: In England, William Crookes builds a forerunner to the TV-cathode ray tube.*1884: In Germany, a student named Paul Nipkow builds a scanning disc, which is an early version of television.*1890: Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the cathode ray tube*1907: In Russia, Boris Rosing builds a working electronic/mechanical system in the lab.*1922: 15 year old Philo Farnsworth designs a television “image dissector”*1923: Vladimir Zworykin patents an electronic camera tube, the iconoscope*1925: A moving image is telecast in a lab experiment

The Beginning*1936: BBC starts world’s first regular television service, three hours a day

In Germany television cameras transmit the Berlin Olympics*1939: NBC starts the first regular daily electronic TV broadcasts in the U.S.*1940: Peter Goldmark at CBS demonstrates television in color*1947: Meet the Press shifts from radio to TV; will be longest running TV program.*1948: CBS and NBC begin nightly 15 minute television newscasts.

Before cable there was Community Antenna Television (CATV)

Color TV!

*1951: Color television sets go on sale*1953: TV Guide; initial press run is 1.5 million copies*1958: Videotape delivers color*1960: Kennedy-Nixon debates draw huge numbers of viewers*1963: JFK assassination sends millions to around the clock newscasts*1965: Vietnam War becomes first war to be televised and is nicknamed “the living room war”

TV Now

*1975: HBO bounces signal off satellite to reach cable systems*1980: CNN begins round the clock reports from Atlanta to 172 cable systems*1995: Direct Broadcast Satellites (DBS) beam digital programs to home dishes*1999: TiVo offers personal television control: storing programs and skipping ads*2006: Television signals available digitally*2010: 3D television arrives

Then & Now

http://youtu.be/iPsoxmXjtfc

http://youtu.be/ic0fGqTqOqo

TV Shows/Moments Throughout the Ages

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIslhp9vqqw - Howdy doody• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pRdE1ApqOA - Johnny Carson Nixon• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZEIMQ42-oU - down goes frazier• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdi-1tIUhM - this is the big one• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErVzWsuGH1I – catchphrases• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhrfhjLd9e4 - the simpsons i am so

smrt• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lMu8V5Xa90 - patrick explaining

Wumbo• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2NgEaMcYE - great moments in tv

history

Effects & Analysis

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r7NmjD4Yi8

Future of the Television

• Multi-screen experience throughout your home, anywhere you want and any size

• Commanded by voice • You’ll be able to choose to buy or stream any particular show or

channel or brand • What will advertising be like? • Thin and pearlescent • You’ll never have to miss a second of TV!

• Use TV unit to access an entire system of content e.g. on demand via the internet

• It will be easily sourced from content catalogs and accessed with a handheld device

• Ten years from now, the TV will still be one of the largest pieces of furniture in the living room

• Where TV goes, so goes the nation.

• Is the day coming when they will sell access to their shows directly over the Internet on a pay-per-view basis and bypass the TV distribution companies?

• Developers of emerging technologies (such as web-based streaming video companies Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu) are rapidly changing the way many people view their entertainment

• Google TV….

• The television industry has been splintered in recent years, as streaming content to computers and mobile devices has increased in convenience, access, and popularity.

• Broadcasters are excited about the future

YouTube Clip

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BVlcbKOprY

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