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The History of Television
The History of Television
1939
The Birth of Network TV
World’s Fair in New York City—NBC begins broadcasting from Rockefeller Plaza. A few months later, the first major league baseball game is televised.
1940's
Summary: The Big Three Networks
- ABC
- CBS
- NBC
- (and then along came PBS)
1948: The Ed Sullivan Show begins it’s 23 year run as post-WWII TV entertainment “explodes.”
1949: A girl falls into a well in Los Angeles. Live TV news coverage is born.
During the reign of the Networks everyone was watching the same programming.
- Culturally
- Socially
- News events
The network pushed the content, and the
audience consumed what was offered.
AND:
CNN (Cable News Network) became a game changer.
1927
1950's
1990's
CNN & Citizen Journalism
Philo Farnsworth, (born near Beaver, Utah, raised in Rigby, Idaho), develops the electronic television picture.
The $64,000 Question premieres, and the TV game show is born.
1990-91: CNN becomes a leader in world news coverage during the Gulf War. Because of an earlier investment in infrastructure, CNN was the only news network that was able to communicate inside Iraq during the beginning hours of the war.
CNN ignores the regular daily news cycle (morning and evening newspapers and news shows) by broadcasting around the clock.
1992: Amateur videographers provide images of the Rodney King riots.
1980's
1960's
The Decade of the Satellite
Cable News Network—CNN—is founded by Ted Turner. Ironically, CNN makes a name for itself by providing around-the-clock news coverage of the rescue of "Baby Jessica," a Texas toddler who fell into a well in 1987.
1962: Satellites are launched, and 15 min. news programs become 30 min. programs.
1967: Public Television and Talk shows are launched.
Documentary programs are also developed during this decade.
TV News Anchor Walter Cronkite is named “the most trusted man in America.”
1970's
Cable TV
- More Americans now receive their news from TV than from newspapers.
- By the mid 1970’s, PBS becomes a serious news organization
- Reality shows and miniseries begin
- Home Box Office becomes the first pay cable network