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- Vladimir Zworykin
- Developed competing television technology.
- TV-technology revolution.
- Advances in camera technology, made coverage outside studio possible, impacted public perception, .
- Radio
- Proclaimed lofty goals, making all men equal, provide equal access to information, raise educational and cultural standards.
- The Internet
- ARPA was first multiple-site computer network called ARPAnet, usually only used by military and education in early 80's.
- TV-Business
- 1923-AC Nielson Comany created, provides maketing research, determines the basis from advertisement rates.
- Marshall McLuhan
- visionary in 1970's called the internet the "global village".
- Advertisements
- shows took names from their sponsors (Colgate Comedy Hour)
- Philo T. Farnsworth
- Credited with invention of television technology in 1906.
- Lee de Forest
- 1906-Audio tube, 1908-Wireless Broadcast of human voice.
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Credited with the first radio transmission 1895
- NBC
- National Broadcast Corporation-1926, created through cooperation between RCA, Westinghouse and GE.
- Ted Turner
- bought Atlanta UHF station WTCG later became WTBS, bypassed networksand beamed broadcasts directly off satellite.
- David Sarnoff.
- Broadcast Pioneer, named head of RCA, later became head of NBC.
- Communication Regulations
- Agencies like: federal radio commission, interstate commerce commission, postmaster general.
- TV-Technology
- Used transmitter and antenna, sets were large and cumbersome, black and white, all programs provided by big three(ABC, NBC, CBS)
- Television
- early presentations were "non-visual", picture was small and fuzzy, sound was tinny, 90% of broadcasts were "live", was only from 6:30 am to 10:30 pm.
- ABC
- was formed when NBC was forced to sell one of its networks in 1939.
- The internet-social impact
- Instant global communication.
- FCC
- Federal Communication Commission created by act of congress in 1934
- CBS
- created with owner William S. Paley at the helm in 1928.