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Television Programming

Television Programming. An Operations Overview: Past, Present, & Future. Summary. Brief Timeline Significance of the VTR From VTR to Digital File Server Operations and the digital network Multimedia Convergence Theories Applied Conclusion. A Brief Television Timeline.

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Television Programming

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  1. Television Programming An Operations Overview: Past, Present, & Future

  2. Summary • Brief Timeline • Significance of the VTR • From VTR to Digital File Server • Operations and the digital network • Multimedia Convergence • Theories Applied • Conclusion

  3. A Brief Television Timeline • 1900 Sarnoff emigrates to the U.S. from Russia at age 9 • Professor Reginald A. Fessenden transmits speech without wires • 1904 Vacuum tube diode developed by Fleming • 1905 Nipkow disc demonstrated Cathode-ray picture tube (CRT) demonstrated

  4. 1910-1920 • 1910 First federal communication law, the Wireless Ship Act, enacted • 1912 Sarnoff intercepts first distress message from the doomed ship Titanic • 1915 First practical radio telephone communications system constructed by Bell Labs • 1916A.C. Nielsen Company is formed

  5. 1920-40 • 1920 KDKA airs the world's first scheduled radio broadcast from Pittsburgh WWJ, Detroit, begins operation • 1926 National Broadcasting Company founded “NBC” • 1927 Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System founded “CBS” • 1928 Federal Radio Commission established • 1934 FCC established as a permanent regulatory agency

  6. 1940-1950 • 1940 Paramount puts first TV station on the air in Chicago • 1942 Digital computer conceived -Sarnoff awarded the rank of Brigadier General • 1947 First taped US radio network program airs, featuring Bing Crosby • 3M introduces Scotch 100 audio tape

  7. 1950-1960 • 1952 FCC approves UHF-TV broadcasting • Ampex VTR team reproduces barely recognizable picture from tape • 1956 First VTR demonstrated by Ampex at National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (hereafter referred to as NAB), using un-tested experimental 3M 2-inch videotape • 1958 Ampex demonstrates color VTR

  8. Before the VTR Quadraplex • Too Large • steel tapes were impossible to edit

  9. Ampex Corporation’s VTR • The Quad - First VTR Invented

  10. The VTR Advances • Ampex VR 660 • 1960s bring more advances • Smaller Machines • Better Mobility

  11. From VTR to Digital File Server

  12. Multimedia Convergence Where is it all going?

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