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The first still picture was transmitted through a wire. Moving images were not successfully for another 65 years.
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first moving images were transmitted between Washington, DC and New York City.
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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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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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Creation of the radio station Radio Saint-Boniface, in Manitoba, provided the first French language network station outside of the Province of Québec.
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One 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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Radio programming made available to Canadian troops in Korea
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First telecast of opening of Parliament
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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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Trans-Canada and Dominion networks are consolidated.
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200 TV sets in the U.S.
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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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David Suzuki's The Nature of Things celebrated 40 years on CBC Television.
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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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Radio-Canada brought together radio, television and digital platforms, keeping pace with audience desires to consume their content when and how they want.
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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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Four million monthly visitors came to Radio-Canada.ca and CBC.ca - both sites are extremely popular with Canadians.
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Televisions will become available only in large sizes, and something bigger and better will become available and satelitte television will no longer be available.
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Children's television programs will become a lot different in the future.
