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The first still picture was transmitted through a wire.
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1st moving images were transmitted between Washington, DC and New York City.
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The 1st national broadcast "covering the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation" aired. New transmitters installed in Montréal and Toronto. National radio coverage increased to 76 per cent of the population from 49 per cent.
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200 TV sets sold in the U.S.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Act replaced the CRBC with a Crown Corporation, and Canada's national public broadcaster was born.
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the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) broadcast the first televised Presidential speech, delivered by F.D. Roosevelt.
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CBC News Service is formally opened; Radio-Canada's News division is also created.
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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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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.
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First coast-to-coast live television broadcast with completion of the microwave network from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.
Opening of the Calgary delay centre for western time zones.
CBC Northern Service (radio) was established. -
Satellite broadcasting was introduced and made it possible to send and receive television signals anywhere in the world.
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•The first broadcast of taped television in the North from CBC.
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Satellite broadcasting allowed people around the world to watch the images transmitted from the moon landing
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A practical videotape recording system for home use became available.
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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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3D T,V,s have been starting to dominate and put regular T.V.s out of buisness.
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Flat screen T.V.s are a thing of the past. 3D T.V.s included with internet, and other uses are now in almost everyhouse. Interactive childrens 3D T,V, has been introduced.
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3D Interactive T.V is widely available. Regular cable, subscription, and satellite T.V is no longer, and people now use wireless wifi connections for T.V. signals.