Television, hows its changed.

Before 1947, only a few thousand people had television sets in America, fast forward it to the 1990's, now 98% of homes have a television set.

The Average person spends 2.5 to 5 hrs a day watching television.

President Franklin Roosevelt was the First president to appear on television in 1939.
A 30 second ad commercial running in between American Idol costs $750,000

I was speaking to one of my friends on one of my classes the other day. I was saying how when i was younger I was bought a television which was probably around 10 inches squared. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread and that it was the perfect size to watch television and play my games on. Now, with the advances in television technology, I find televisions with screens less then 30 inches too small to watch anything and play my games. Give it a few more years and who knows how our televisions will look like or the shows will be brought to us.

The Television was brought to us by a 21 year old Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927. He had been living in a house with out electricity until he was 14 but began to think of an idea of capturing moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transferred back into picture.

RCA the company that dominated the radian business with its two NBC networks invested $50 million in the development of the television. With the development of television, RCA started selling TV sets with 5 by 12 inch pictures.

When the war broke out RCA turned its attention to the war effort so the quality of production of picture took a step back and people were unable to see a good quality images of the broadcasters or hat they were trying to show.

3 Major Networks that controlled a lot of the television programmes between the 1960's and 70's were CBS, NBC and ABC. CBS doubled its profits between 61-66 by playing shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies. Day time television consisted of shows such as dramas about police, detectives, lawyers, until the 1980's when day time talk shows started to discuss to once taboo subject of sex and sexuality. 

Cable was introduced in the 1960's and was aimed at the people in the smaller rural areas but soon people in the big cities wanted it, and soon at 80,000 subscribers in New york alone.

In Great Britain Broadcasting giant BBC which started out in Radio and dominated that then went onto television and dominated that swell producing top quality shows.
In China, television exposure grew from 18 million in 1977 to 1 Billion in 1995.

New Technology (in no particular order)-

1. In the 1980's came the video cassette recorders allowing revers to record and re watch their programs. 

2.Video games also appeared and have always grown in popularity. and often require televisions to be played on. 

3. More cable channels appear showing more programes 

4. Shows and films given ratings and time slots to suit certain audience.

5. High definition
6. television programes viewed on the computers
7. 3D television