Your favourite drama series? Staying in touch with the news? Seeing your sports club in action? Television is a medium that improves the world, triggers the imagination, raises curiosity, encourages education and gathers millions around common interests. We believe in television as a medium that does good, we believe in television as a medium that triggers the imagination, arises curiosity, encourages education and gathers millions around common interests.
Here are nine good reasons why we should celebrate television today. TV has authority Today information is everywhere. It was created by Alexander Anderson and Jay Ward. Anderson was the nephew of Paul Terry, a competitor of Disney animation. He and Ward ran into some lawsuits with Crusader Rabbit , but they also created Rocky and Bullwinkle, two iconic characters of the toon world. Cable had its beginnings in when Oregon, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania sought to improve remote regions' television signals with the use of antennas.
With this development came the implementation of satellite transmission. The s saw additional pay channels in addition to basic cable, which was a commonality by the s. Like cable, home video was a field to pioneer in the s.
Though the s brought the Quadruplex and the s offered helical scan and open reel tapes , the 70s can be thanked for the first videocassettes, and Sony coined the short-lived Betamax tapes. VHS use also presented a new option in watching television--time-shifting programs in order to view them after their original airdates. Nickelodeon was the first television channel just for kids. See the section Special Issues for Young Children for more details.
Resources for Parents. New tips and resources on screen time for parents. Blog entry. Talking to kids about gender stereotypes. Tip Sheet.
Understanding Television Rating Systems and Codes. Resources for Teachers. Thinking About Television and Movies - Lesson. Lesson Plan.
Television Newscasts - Lesson. The U. Though viewed by many historians as the true father of television, Farnsworth never earned much more from his invention, and was dogged by patent appeal lawsuits from RCA. He later moved on to other fields of research, including nuclear fission, and died in debt in By , there were only a few hundred televisions in use in the United States.
With radio still dominating the airwaves— more than 80 percent of American homes owned one at the time—TV use grew slowly over the course of the decade, and by the mids, the United States had 23 television stations and counting. By , a year after the debut of the hit variety show Texaco Star Theater , hosted by comedian Milton Berle, the nation boasted 1 million TV sets in use. By the s, television had truly entered the mainstream, with more than half of all American homes owning TV sets by As the number of consumers expanded, new stations were created and more programs broadcast, and by the end of that decade TV had replaced radio as the main source of home entertainment in the United States.
During the presidential election, the young, handsome John F. Kennedy had a noticeable advantage over his less telegenic opponent, Richard M.
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