Early Days
The earliest forms of television began to apper as far back as 1927 developed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. over the next decade and a half television began to grow when RCA ,the companie that dominated radio at the time, begain investing in electronic televison in hope of expanding their maket and by 1939 RCA began selling television sets with 5 by 12 inch picture tubes. Television development was braught to a halt due to the Second World War.
In1947 Full-scale commercial television broardcasting began in the united states. as it was a new medium television struggeld to find it own feet and instead followed more or a radio basd format, this is untill the mid 1950's when instead networks bean to take more insparation from theater, moving away from News broadcasts and towards dramas leading to waht is known as teh Golden age of television. By 1964 the television market began rapidly expanding with the intorduction of colour broadcasting as well as networks gaining a better understanding of what audiences wanted and chosing their programming to grab mass audience appeal. Networks where soon called out by critics for their low standard of programming spuring them to become more adventurous during the 70's leading daytime television to become dominated by soap operas and quiz shows all the way up to the 80's. During the 1980's home videocassetts recorders and videogame sistems began to gorw hugely in popularty leading televisions to grow even further in popularty, now peopel could not only watch was being broadcasts but could also record and re-watch their favoret shows, buy and rent movies, or play games. Seeing how audiences reacted to these new devices, televisions began to advance once again in the following decades providers such as Sky allwed viewers to record programs streight on the the divice they where using to watch and even pausing programming as it was being broadcast live. |
Stephens, M. (). History of Television. Available: https://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm. Last accessed 21st Feb 2016.