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RCA’s electronic lab used Zworykin’s (inconoscope)
RCA television is an all electronic scanning system largely credited to the work of two inventors |
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| Role of RCA's Electronic Research Laboratory |
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| Zworykin developed the iconoscope there and worked that in |
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| Formation of NTSC Standard |
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| TV Freezes during and after WWII |
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result of war, centralized under government, people started applying for licenses and not having enough bandwidth
1948 FCC puts a freeze on new tv licenses |
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| Sixth Report and Order and Channel-Allotment Plan |
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piece of legislation that addressed table of channel assignments, color TV standards, UHF band is opened up.
issued in 1952 |
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| Significance of All Channel Receiver Act |
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| all TV sets had to be capable to carry VHF and UHF |
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| someone was paid to give the wrong answer |
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| Communist among the American Public |
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| Play this song X amount of times and I'll pay X amount of money under the table. |
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| Origins of early TV program-formats |
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Stem from what was done with radio
radio transferred over to TV |
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Ultra High Frequency, 14 and up
Very High Frequency, 1-13 |
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| one of the major 4 networks early on that went bankrupt |
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| Lightweight equipment being used to go on sight to an actual event that was occurring |
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Prime Time Access Role
major networkings were allowed to have 4hrs of prime time 7-11pm.Now 8-11pm and 7-8pm is access time, the intention as to provide local communtity affairs, political events, etc. |
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Development of new TV broadcast networks
(e.g. FOX, UPN, WB, and most recently CW and MyNetworkTV) |
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Fox 1980s
UPN, WB 1990s
-replaced by CW in 2006 |
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| Effects of satellites, cable television, and VCR development on broadcast revenue, advertising and programming |
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A lot more competition and fragmentation of viewers that they had to deal with cable and satellite operators, people using video set recorders
the effect that CNN had a major network and how they covered the news....major networks ramped up their new operation |
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| Deregulation beginning on the 1980s- current (liberalized ownership limits) |
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| Led more to fragmentation in the audiences. Harder to reach out cause people were using different sources. More competition when it came to advertising $. More media programing through satellites |
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Role of Mergers and Acquisitions/Consolidation in 1980s- current
(e.g. GE/RCA, Disney/ABC, Viacom/CBS, AOL/Time Warner, Comcast/AT&T Broadband, News Corp/DirectTV, NBC/Universal) |
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| Allowed for these large acquisitions |
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