Life with the Lyons 5 November The Goodies 8 November Byker Grove 8 November Garrison Theatre 10 November Butterflies 10 November Monitor - Elgar by Ken Russell 11 November Panorama 11 November There are a variety of ways HDTV signals might be transmitted.
One possibility would be for existing stations to send the extra signals necessary to complete a high-definition image through unoccupied channels on the television band. In local markets, to prevent interference, television stations are separated by vacant channel space.
A station could broadcast one set of signals on ordinary VHF channels 2 through 13 and send the additional picture information over a blank channel. Traditional TV sets would pick up the regular channel, while viewers with high-definition sets would pull in both sets of signals, which would be combined by their televisions into a single enhanced image. Another possibility is direct-broadcast satellite. High-definition images could be beamed by satellite to homes equipped with satellite dishes.
High-definition television sets would pick up both the new satellite transmissions and traditional broadcasts. A third idea under discussion is to use the fiber-optic cables, currently being installed by telephone companies, to carry high-definition television signals. NBC television president Sylvester Weaver devised the "spectacular," a notable example of which was Peter Pan , starring Mary Martin, which attracted 60 million viewers.
Weaver also developed the magazine-format programs Today , which made its debut in with Dave Garroway as host until , and The Tonight Show , which began in hosted by Steve Allen until The programming that dominated the two major networks in the mids borrowed heavily from another medium: theater.
Steel Hour This is often looked back on as the "Golden Age" of television. However, by only one of these series was still on the air. Viewers apparently preferred dramas or comedies that, while perhaps less literary, at least had the virtue of sustaining a familiar set of characters week after week. I Love Lucy , the hugely successful situation comedy starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, had been recorded on film since it debuted in lasting until It had many imitators.
The Honeymooners , starring Jackie Gleason, was first broadcast, also via film, in lasting until with the original cast. The first videotape recorder was invented by Ampex in see video; video recording; video technology.
Another format introduced in the mids was the big-money quiz show. Cowan, by that time president of CBS television, was forced to resign from the network amid revelations of widespread fixing of game shows see Van Doren, Charles.
Television news first covered the presidential nominating conventions of the two major parties, events then still at the heart of America politics, in The term "anchorman" was used, probably for the first time, to describe Walter Cronkite's central role in CBS's convention coverage that year. In succeeding decades these conventions would become so concerned with looking good on television that they would lose their spontaneity and eventually their news value.
The networks had begun producing their own news film. Increasingly, they began to compete with newspapers as the country's primary source of news see journalism. The election of a young and vital president in , John F. Kennedy, seemed to provide evidence of how profoundly television would change politics.
Commentators pointed to the first televised debate that fall between Kennedy, the Democratic candidate for president, and Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon, the Republican's nominee. A survey of those who listened to the debate on radio indicated that Nixon had won; however, those who watched on television, and were able to contrast Nixon's poor posture and poorly shaven face with Kennedy's poise and grace, were more likely to think Kennedy had won the debate. Television's coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov.
Most Americans joined in watching coverage of the shocking and tragic events, not as crowds in the streets, but from their own living rooms. By the end of the decade Cronkite had become not just a highly respected journalist but, according to public opinion surveys, "the most trusted man in America. While the overwhelming majority of television news reports on the Vietnam War were supportive of U. Many believed it contributed to growing public dissatisfaction with the war.
And some of the anger of those defending U. Marines on a "search and destroy" mission to a complex of hamlets called Cam Ne. The Marines faced no enemy resistance, yet they held cigarette lighters to the thatched roofs and proceeded to "waste" Cam Ne. After much debate, Safer's filmed report on the incident was shown on CBS.
Johnson, accusing the network of a lack of patriotism. During the Tet offensive in , Cronkite went to Vietnam to report a documentary on the state of the war. That documentary, broadcast on Feb. President Johnson was watching Cronkite's report. In color broadcasting began on prime-time television. Born into a poor Jewish family in Minsk, Russia, Sarnoff had come to New York City as a child and began his career as a telegraph operator.
April 30, , New York City: This is the scene viewed on the television receivers in the metropolitan area, as the National Broadcasting Company inaugurated the first regular television service to the American public telecasting the ceremonies marking the opening of the New York World's Fair. Later, viewers heard and saw President Roosevelt proclaim the fair open.
Sarnoff was among the earliest to see that television, like radio, had enormous potential as a medium for entertainment as well as communication. Named president of RCA in , he hired Zworykin to develop and improve television technology for the company. Meanwhile, an American inventor named Philo Farnsworth had been working on his own television system.
Farnsworth, who grew up on a farm in Utah, reportedly came up with his big idea—a vacuum tube that could dissect images into lines, transmit those lines and turn them back into images—while still a teenager in chemistry class.
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
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