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History of Television

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Television throughout the human history

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Piece of Puzzles

  • 406s, David Sarnoff: Across the country, a different kind of genius . . . .
    • David Sarnoff with meeting with G. Marconi: At 14 . . . .
    • Employed as a messenger boy at 14.
    • David Sarnoff at young age
    • Sarnoff idolized Marconi

      at 457s

    • good at pension for promotion . . . 475s
      • 481s RMS Titanic 1) on April 12, 1912. Sarnoff was at the relay station at the Marconi New York office. . . . Worked three strait nights alerting other ships near the area.
      • just a myth . . .
      • titanic.1912.jpg
      • sarnoff.worked.3.nights.strait.jpg
  • 588s, David Sarnoff creates and controls the Radio industry
    • He becomes the farther of television later.
    • At 22, outline of his vision of radio = radio box memo
    • He envisioned a device at home that people receive music, news, and sports . . .
    • Radio station, radio box, etc. were envisioned before five years that they actually happened.
    • tech, yes. but, why? who needs it? problem

Radio Comes of Age

1920s 라디오가 본격적으로 산업화, 대중화 된다는 부분

    • Radio broadcast boom by D. Sarnoff, 1920
    • The first radio station KDKA on the air (Pittsburgh in PA): The Westinghouse engineer Frank Conrad began experimental radio broadcast . . .
      • Frank Conrad
        The first radio station, KDKA
        First broadcast of KDKA
        • . . . . We are very anxious to know how far the broadcast is reaching . . . .
  • Race for television heating up . . . .
    • A typical radio set in the livingroom
      A typical radio set in the livingroom
    • Demands for the radio set was very high
      Demands for the radio set was very high

Mechanical Television

    • in the 1920s
      • Charleston became very popular
        • Charleston
      • Prohibition: 또한 금주령의 시기
        • Prohibition period
      • And RADIO business

Patent battles

  • 1152s, patent battles mainly between Farnsworth and RCA
  • David Zworykin moves to RCA from the Westinghouse.
    • Sarnoff had an intuitive understanding the potential of television, and backed him up by 100 percent.
  • 1215s, patent battles Farnsworth and Zworykin had a patent law suit
  • Farnsworth's win over RCA on patent war (at 24)
    • farnsworth.01.jpg
      farnsworth.02.jpg
    • Farnsworth의 스케치
      patent number 159540

      the patent

    • zworykin.01.jpg
  • RCA tried to buy the patent; but, Farnsworth wanted the continuous royalty.
  • Sarnoff did not like the idea, but, eventually agreed.

Duelling egos

1309s, Duelling egos

  • D. Sarnoff, the king of radio
    • the owner of the NBC blue, NBC red
    • tried to build television industry by the 1930s (not the 1950s)
    • but, the reality was hard.
      • reliable way to transmit the signal through the airwaves
      • no public demands – who needed pictures when you had radio!
    • radio.as.social.thing.jpg
  • William S. Paley
  • Television still no good for the public
    • low quality: see the upper part is diminishing?
    • television.low.quality.jpg
    • electronic signals interference everywhere
      • trees and buildings, even car spark signals
  • Sarnoff turned the 3rd floor of the radio city into television studio

David Sarnoff, then president of RCA and a strong advocate of television, chose to introduce television to the mass public at the RCA pavilion. As a reflection of the wide range of technological innovation on parade at the fair, Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech was not only broadcast over the various radio networks but also was televised along with other parts of the opening ceremony and other events at the fair. That day, the opening ceremony and President Roosevelt's speech were seen on black and white television sets with 5 to 12-inch tubes.[9] NBC used the event to inaugurate regularly scheduled television broadcasts in New York City over their station W2XBS (now WNBC). An estimated 1,000 people viewed the Roosevelt telecast on about 200 television sets scattered throughout the New York metropolitan area. . . . .

  • wonder bread, nylon stocking, plastic etc. introduced
  • Regular broadcast in Am
    • 2 hours a week, 200 television sets in NY
  • Baby has been born with beard. . . . by PTF (he was forgetten)
  • FCC (Federal Communication Commission) formed in 1940 led by James Fly . . .
    • Sarnoff became too influential and mono-polic
    • Anti-Trust Law
    • ABC created out of NBC Blue and NBC Red
  • TV sets sales sky-rocketed . . . .
    • Muntz TV
    • madman.muntz.sign.jpg
      muntz.tv.jpg
      madman.muntz.jpg

Talents drives tube

2119s, Talents drives tube

  • Tech stablized. Search for talents flourished.
  • Resurrection of Vaudeville
  • Norma Jean
  • I love Lucy
  • televised tour of the White house by the Pres. Truman
  • into color . . . .
  • Battle for color

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television_history.txt · Last modified: 2023/09/19 11:47 by hkimscil

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