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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
The early days of television introduced hour-long anthology drama series, many of which received critical acclaim. [6] [7] Examples include Kraft Television Theatre (debuted May 7, 1947), The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (debuted September 27, 1948), Television Playhouse (debuted December 4, 1947), The Philco Television Playhouse (debuted October 3, 1948), Westinghouse Studio One (debuted November 7 ...
List of years in television; Lists of American films This page was last edited on 25 October 2023, at 20:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to imagine what life would be like in 2025. ... British scientist Archibald M. Low expected the 21st century to offer television machines ...
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
Aug. 27—100 Years Ago Aug. 27, 1923 Fifteen thousand persons, it is estimated, members of Odd Fellows lodges and Rebekah Assemblies, from practically every lodge in the State, attended the ...
± indicates a series included on the BBC's 100 Greatest Television Series of the 21st Century; in the case of 30 for 30, the entry in question is the Academy Award-winning O.J.: Made in America (#81)