1. A Timeline of Television &
Broadcasting Technology

2. 1923 - Vladimir Zworykin
Demonstrated his iconoscope tube, the first practical television camera tube

3. 1925 - Charles Jenkins
Transmitted the First Long-Distance TV Image

4. 1927 - Philo Farnsworth
First public demonstration of an electronic television system

5. July 7, 1936 - David Sarnoff and RCA
First Commercial Television Broadcast (NBC)

6. April, 1939 - the Words Fair in New York
RCA made the first true public demonstration of television

7. 1947 - Earl “Madman” Muntz
Created the first Affordable television.

8. 1948 - Cable Television introduced
In 1975, HBO became the first cable TV channel to be broadcast via satellite.

9. 1953 - Color Television Introduced
Did not become the standard until the Early 1970’s

10. The 1950’s
By the end of the decade, there were 559 stations and nearly 90% of U.S. households had television.

11. 1962 - First Satellite Broadcasts
AT&T Begins broadcasting internationally.

12. 1976 - First home recorder
Sony introduces the Betamax tape recorder

13. 1981 - HDTV Developed by Japan
Accepted by the F.C.C. in 1996.

14. 1994 - First Internet Broadcast
ABC World News Now is broadcast over the internet.

15. 1998 - DVD’s Commercially available
Only 2% of homes have a dvd player.

16. 2004 - Blu-Ray and HD DVD Introduced
Blu-ray eventually wins the market

17. 2009 - DTV Becomes Mandatory for national networks
On June 12th, the FCC required these networks to transition to Digital Broadcasts.

18. 2012
• There are 115.9 million homes in the U.S. with at least one
TV.
• 61% of all TV sets are now HD.