Bchabony's List: Timeline Group Project

• At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."

• Electronic television was   first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927
• Philo Taylor Farnsworth
• RCA, the company that dominated   the radio business in the United States with its two NBC networks, invested   $50 million in the development of electronic television.
• RCA televised   the opening of the New York World's Fair, including a speech by President Franklin   Delano Roosevelt, who was the first president to appear on television
• began

  broadcasting regular programs
• RCA   began selling television sets
• first televised baseball game
• NBC   television president Sylvester Weaver
• began to take some steps away from radio formats
• developed the magazine-format programs Today,
• and The   Tonight Show
• During   the 1960s and 1970s a country increasingly fascinated with television was limited   to watching almost exclusively what appeared on the three major networks: CBS,   NBC, and ABC
• in 1967
• Congress created   the Public Broadcasting System
• are spread across the   country
• PBS's key stations
• more than 300 stations, more than any commercial network
• By 1960 the United States had about   640 such CATV (community antenna television) systems
• Time Inc.'s Home Box Office (HBO) in 1975; Ted Turner's "superstation,"   soon renamed WTBS, in 1976; C-SPAN (live broadcasts of the House of Representatives),   ESPN (sports), and Nickelodeon (children's programming), all in 1979. Turner   followed with the Cable News Network (CNN) the next year.
• In the 1980s, home videocassette   recorders became widely available. Viewers gained the ability to record and   replay programs and, more significantly, to rent and watch movies at times of   their own choosing in their own homes

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• There is more than three decades separating the FCC’s establishment of a color television technical standard and their action on stereo television sound.
• producers and performers explored the creative possibilities of stereo sound for the public prior to its official introduction
• Band leader Lawrence Welk, for instance, expressed disappointment in 1958 that audiences were not getting the full impact of his series
• Welk’s series became the first program to transmit in stereo sound on October 1, 1958 (
• Walt Disney himself introduced an episode of Walt Disney Presents using simulcast stereo
• Disney explained in great detail how viewers could view the “Peter Tchaikovsky Story” in stereo using both an AM and an FM receiver.
• Disney observed “we’re the first to bring stereo and widescreen to television” (Disney 1959). The combined impact of stereo and widescreen was termed the “Magic Mural Screen”:

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