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T elevision. By: Nick Goette and Tyler Meyer. Television is simply automated daydreaming. -Lee Lovinger. Beginnings of Television.

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T elevision

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  1. Television By: Nick Goette and Tyler Meyer Television is simply automated daydreaming. -Lee Lovinger

  2. Beginnings of Television • Inventors from all over the world had been working on transmitting pictures or objects onto a screen since the 1830’s but the first physical television didn’t evolve until 1900’s. • Five men became the most popular and prestigious inventors of what we know today as television, giving the history of TV a rich beginning: Paul Nipkow, John Baird, Charles Jenkins, Vladmir Zworykin, Philo Farnsworth • History of Televison Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aIc7dOSUQA)

  3. Two Paths • At the dawn of television history there were two distinct paths of technology experimented with by researchers. • Mechanical V.S. Electronic

  4. Creation of Mechanical Televisionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbbi2DP8XzU

  5. Electronic Television • First televisions broadcasted in monochrome, which showed up as black and white on the screen. • The screens no bigger than a dollar coin, actors on the screen would have to step in and out of camera to act out plays. Vladmir Zworykin showing a young woman an electronic television.

  6. The Evolution of Televisionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqSlpLBV0Go

  7. Jumping Ahead • By the 1950’s, there was fewer than 10,000 televisions in households in the US, which would later be crushed in 1960 with over 52 million. • With television becoming a prominent source of media, delivery systems for the broadcasts started to appear. • Terrestrial: Transmitters on high elevations. • Cable: Connected cables to run TV for smaller towns. CATV was the first to do this. • Satellite: Rooftop dishes to pick up electronic waves. DirectTV and Dish Network only two satellite companies. Community Antenna Television

  8. I Got A Question! (actually a few so hang in there!) How many of you have had a television in your household? -What do you watch primarily on TV? -Why do you watch that program?

  9. Television Programming • When televisions became more widespread, the material they showed need to become more broad as well. • Starting with news broadcasts and plays, more genres of material started to show up as television progressed. • Genres such as sitcoms, drama, and reality started to make their main stay on television.

  10. Popular Shows By The Decades (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyYo3Hm6pS4 -1930s- The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, King Kong, The Three Stooges 1940s- The Looney Tunes, Popeye 1950- I Love Lucy, Today Show, Leave it to Beaver, Tom and Jerry 1960’s- Days of our life, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, The Twilight zone 1970- Charlies Angels, The Brady Bunch, Bewitched 1980’s- Dallas, 60 Minutes, The Dukes of Hazard, The Cosby Show 1990’s- The Simpsons, Law and Order, Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, Full House

  11. Television Today • Becoming clearer through the use of high definition and Blu-ray, images broadcasted on television are becoming more realistic looking. • Over the past 10 years, the median size of the average TV has increase from 34 inches to 48 inches and commercial breaks are around 3 minutes long. • Advertising has become a major source of funds for television companies.

  12. TV Programming Today 10 Most Popular TV Shows as of 2013 1. Big Bang Theory 2. 30 Rock 3. How I Met Your Mother 4. Game of Thrones 5. The Walking Dead 6. Breaking Bad 7. Castle 8. Downtown Abbey 9. The Bachelor 10. Homeland

  13. Television Moving To Internethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtnjlrPB28ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKVoJlhLcc • Shows are starting to become more exclusive by only being streamed through Internet websites, such as Hulu and Netflix. • HBO is starting to make a premium package for customers that watch shows online. • Blockbuster closed permenately because of this.

  14. Questions For You! As shows and movies start to move online, is television starting to die out?

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