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The very beginning
A man named Alexander Graham Bell creator of the telephone, creates an optical telecommunication device for transmitting sound by light. http://www.npr.org/2012/10/24/163505605/the-tv-screens-evolution-from-1880-to-the-present -
One of the first Television
John Baird has been working on the Televison, Radio device that was able to put a small stamp sized image on a spinning metal disk. Acouiple of years late three networks are created which are NBC, BBC and CBS. -
Going Commercial
At the beginning of the 1940s the FCC allowed commercials to air on the TV. The commercial air during a baseball game between the Phillies and the Dodges. A year later the first world series was aired on NBC. -
World War II
During World War II the TV didn't caught on as quickly as it would originally could of been. It was predicted to have fewer then 10,000 TVs in the households of Americans during this time, But as soon as the war had ended the TV industry took off and has over 6 million household TV in America http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/culture-and-media/s12-01-the-evolution-of-television.html -
The Growth of the TV market
The amount of americans that owned a TV in the 1950 to 1960 has grown from 6 million viewers to about 60 to 70 million viewers, which tuned in the first televised presidential debate that was between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. After that 720 million people world wide tuned in to watch the first man land on the moon. -
The addition of Color
At the beginning of the 1970s the introduction of the color tv becomes accessible by the public and eventually replaces the black and white TV completely. By this time 98% of households own at least 1 TV in the United States -
Cable/DVR
Networks like CNN and MTV beging to take a presence in the TV industry, and in the late 1990s the DVR was created by TIVO -
High Definition Television
Around the late 1990s a improvement was been made by the TV companies which was HDTV. This offed a wider and much clear picture before making your TV watching experience more enjoyable to watch. It had five more pixels than the regular TV and was priced around 5,000 to 10,000 per set http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/culture-and-media/s12-01-the-evolution-of-television.html -
Its Prime Time
In the United states the time to air a show is during "Prime Time" which is between 7 and 11p.m. This is when the most viewers will tune in to watch a show or an important event. -
The "New" service and the Future of TVs
In recent years program like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO have been taking the interest of many people causing then to ignore cable broadcasting and going with the more internet route instead, this is causing many companies considering getting rid of "the box" (cable box) and switching to a more internet foundation. This might be the end to some cable companies https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/04/25/the-future-of-tv-is-arriving-faster-than-anyone-predicted/
