Blog post 4: Television

 Television from someone who  watches tv rarely

-needs to be edited-

BLOG #4  Do a KEY POST based on your research for this EOTO project. This will be graded as a separate assignment. Make this post 500 words minimum. Be sure to think about hallmarks of a good blog post — at least one visual element and at least one link. But since this is a special assignment, I think you should do more. Make it special! 

• History: Who invented your technology? What were the circumstances? What problem were they trying to solve with their invention? 

• Impact: How did the invention change our world? What problems did it solve? How did it change communication? Did it have any negative effects?

Who Invented Television: History of TV - TCL

1948- credit in shift popularity of radio- radio diminishes- television comes

Programming- abandon radio go to television - orphan Annie for example radio goes to tv

Revenue- advertising on radio drops going to tv

Paul Nipkow and Boris Rosing

Nipkow ring(AKA Nipkow disk)- makes pictures into strips and then send 

Philo Farnsworth - Image dissector - inventor of television - creates the thing needed to put the duos idea into reality- the camera function

September 23,1927 credit 1st television broadcast

"Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who had been working on it since 1920. Electronic television is a type of television that uses electronic signals to produce images on a video screen. This type of television is a visual medium that transmits images and sounds by means of radio waves, microwaves, or infrared rays.

in a German patent for a color television system from 1904, color television was first mentioned. Vladimir K. Zworykin, a Russian inventor, also submitted a patent disclosure for an all-electronic color television system in 1925. Although neither of these designs was a success, they were the first color television plans that were formally documented.

1953, a successful color television system based on a system created by RCA started airing in commercials." Who Invented Television: History of TV - TCL

Vladimir Zworkin- works at RCA created the Iconoscope- the receiver

1936- Philo sells all his patents to RCA

Milton Berle- star of Texaco Star Theater-started 1948- variety Show 1st tv star

“Tolerate”

1948 license freeze

Space for tv on electromatic wave was getting filled up tv signal is pretty big

So they stop can’t process anymore new stations until 1952

Sixth report and order -1952

Get more licenses- create 2 types of broadcasting technology 

VHF channels - very high frequencies- 

Signal must be language and frequency specific only 11 or 2

Other

UHF channels- takes lot less space on spectrum 

License after 1952 would be at disadvantage 

Problem if you had bought tv before the 1952 and before 1960s didn’t have to include UHF

"I love Lucy" pioneered the Three-camera set-up. It was produced in Hollywood-before everything in New York they have the movies but now tv as well. "I Love Lucy" also pioneered Quadraplex tape made by (Ampex) to record the episodes but the quality is movie like however cheaper and easier Live to tape. using the tape Syndication- reruns reselling the show’s distribution rights

November 22 1963 JFK assassination and 1st national news story -happening live

Event Turned the tide of people watching tv

WBAI- radio

George Carlin -“Seven words you cannot say in television” audio

Pacifica v FCC- can gov restrict content on air?

Indecent / Obscene 

Obscene material can’t be aired like blatant sex on tv 

Indecency is talking about it in vulgar terms can be aired only at-

“Safe Harbor” 10:00 pm- 6:00 am 

Network age

1960’s- 1980’s

“Corny”- “socially minded”

Middle America- urban/ urbane 

Middle-class audience/ younger 

Big three: control / hegemony

Cable age

1980’s -2000’s

CATV- Cable TV

1966- must carry rule

Must get everything in 60 mil

Cable shows

HBO - home box office

WTBS - operated by Ted Turner

Espn 

MTV

1993- transmission consent 

Station pays; cable system can reject 

Frequency modulation or FM

Cable age -1980’2-1999

Channel options

More choices?

Telecommunications act of 1996 all bellow 

FCC oversight- oversee cable and internet

Cross-Media Ownership

Can now do both cable and radio waves

Communications Decency Act of 1996

FCC creates rating system Fcc can always come in and say M so networks make their own board

1996- V-chip

V for Violence can be disabled on tv

1996 -License renewals

Instead of justify why to keep, Fcc has to justify why you should lose it so you have license forever.

1996- station ownership

Total radio station depends on market, can buy unlimited tv stations but cannot cover more than 39%of the nation

First golden age

Network age 

Cable age

  -more channels and option

-People will pay for tv

-VCR and DVD– appointment television

Second Golden age (AKA ”Prestige Television”)

(Time  of Edgy shows)

The Sopranos-tv show

Mad Men- tv show

Focus on writing

Morally questionable scripts

Cinematic-style

Auteur-driven– writers voice instinctively their show

Marginalized voices