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In the United States, television is available via broadcast (also known as "over-the-air" or OTA) – the earliest method of receiving television programming, which merely requires an antenna and an equipped internal or external tuner capable of picking up channels that transmit on the two principal broadcast bands, very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF), to receive the ...
Sony Pictures Television (Sony Corporation of America) 2014 66 20 Classic series and films Heroes & Icons: Weigel Broadcasting: 2014 58% 68,672,000 57 30 Classic action and sci-fi series; men's interest World Channel: American Public Television, WNET, WGBH Educational Foundation, & National Educational Telecommunications Association 2007 59% ...
1923: Charles Jenkins first demonstrates "true" television with moving images. This time 48-line moving silhouette images are transmitted at 16 frames per second from Washington to Anacostia Navy station; Vladimir Zworykin applies for a patent for an all-electronic television system, the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera.
Multichannel television in Canada; List of Canadian stations available in the United States; List of United States over-the-air television networks; List of TV markets and major sports teams; List of the Caribbean television channels; Lists of television stations in North America; List of radio stations in North America by media market
According to the FCC, as of March 31, 2011, there are 1022 UHF commercial television stations, 360 VHF commercial television stations, 285 UHF educational television stations and 107 VHF educational television stations, plus 439 Class A UHF television stations, 76 Class A VHF television stations, 3043 UHF television translators, 1411 VHF television translators, 1656 UHF low-power television ...
For most of the history of television in the United States, the Big Three dominated, controlling the vast majority of television broadcasting. [8] DuMont ceased regular programming in 1955; the NTA Film Network, unusual in that its programming, all pre-recorded, was distributed by mail instead of through communications wires, signed on in 1956 and lasted until 1961.
Television shows set in the United States (19 C, 95 P) Sports television in the United States (28 C, 26 P) Television stations in the United States (22 C, 11 P)
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