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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 ...
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) – The nation's third-largest commercial network, ABC was originally formed from the NBC Blue Network (1927–1945), a radio network which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forced NBC (National Broadcasting Company) to sell in 1943 for anti-monopoly reasons, the ABC-TV network began broadcasting in 1948.
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.
HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...
Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, was the site of Super Bowl LVIII, the most-watched broadcast in American television history. The Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, is reported to have been watched by 125–150 million people. [ 4 ]
Early television evolved from the network organization of radio in the early 1940s. Three of the four networks that rose to dominance, NBC, CBS, and ABC, were corporations that were based in the business center of New York City; the fourth was the Mutual Broadcasting System, a cooperative of radio stations that, though its member stations entered television individually, never had a ...
Fourth television network; High-definition television in the United States; List of Spanish-language television networks in the United States; List of United States pay television channels; List of United States over-the-air television networks; List of television stations in North America by media market; Satellite television in the United States
Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992; CableCARD; Cameras in the Supreme Court of the United States; History of Cartoon Network; History of CBS; Channel 1 (North American TV) Charles Jenkins Laboratories; History of CNN; Color Television Inc. Coupon-eligible converter box