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A still picture was transmitted through a wire.
Moving images were not successfully sent for another 65 years -
•July 1 - first national broadcast covering the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation.
•New transmitters installed in Montréal and Toronto.
•National radio coverage increased to 76 per cent of the population from 49 per cent
•1st moving images were transmitted between Washington, DC and New York City -
•The Canadian Broadcasting Act replaced the CRBC with a Crown Corporation, and Canada's national public broadcaster was born
•200 TV sets in the U.S. -
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) broadcast the first televised Presidential speech, delivered by F.D. Roosevelt.
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1 million TV sets in the U.S. and Community Antenna Television was introduced in mountainous rural areas of Pennsylvania. This became what we now know as cable TV. Television was mostly “live” as programs were broadcast as they were being performed. Programs recorded onto film were very poor quality
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•First issue of the radio program guide La Semaine à Radio-Canada.
•Special broadcast coverage of the Manitoba floods -
First still picture taken from outer space.
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Satellite broadcasting was introduced and made it possible to send and receive television signals anywhere in the world.
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1969 – Satellite broadcasting allowed people around the world to watch the images transmitted from the moon landing.
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1976 – A practical videotape recording system for home use became available.
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1983 – Consumers could subscribe to direct delivery of programming to their homes, instead of cable systems or conventional broadcast programming.
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Over 1 billion TV sets worldwide
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the broadcast standards for high-definition television (HDTV).
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The FCC mandated that TV manufacturers must equip all new TVs with tuners capable of receiving digital signals by 2007.
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The FCC mandates no more broadcasting by antennae, only by digital. The transmission frequencies are sold to improve wireless internet capabilities for handheld devices.
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CBC/Radio-Canada offers programming for mobile and iPhone sites, SMS alerting services, including CBC News Network and RDI as live streams and on-demand videos.
