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In 1927, Philo Farnsworth created the television. He realized an eletric beam could scan a picture in horizontal lines, reproducing the image almost instantly.
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In 1930, Charles Jenkins broadcasted the first TV commercial.
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In 1936, about 200 television sets were used around the world. Coaxial cable, which is a pure copper surrounded by insulation, was introduced.
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In 1937, a long lived news channel, CBS, which is still here today, began it's development.
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Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his color system to the FCC. The system produced color pictures by having a red-blue-green wheel spin in front of a cathode ray tube.
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The FCC approved of the first color television standard which is replaced by a second in 1953.
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By 1996, there are over a billion TV sets around the world.
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There are around 1.6 billion television sets used around the world. The TV viewing audience is about 4.6 billion people around the world.
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