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	Television
		Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents are raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
		In other words, the more the child watched television, the less likely he or she was to finish school and enroll in a university.
		Television's biggest social aspect is the fact that it allows users to instantly view content that may be occurring far away from where they are.
	www.encyclopediapro.com /mw/Television (3747 words)

	Television starts again \| 1940-1949 \| Guardian Century
		When television reopens again today, the day before the Victory parade in London, it will be nearly seven years since it closed down at the outbreak of war, a much longer time than it was working up to September 1, 1939.
		Television starts where it left off seven years ago, for it is admitted that war-time research has not found any great improvements that could be made immediately.
		Television programmes came direct from some London theatres and many plays were produced in the studio.
	century.guardian.co.uk /1940-1949/Story/0,,105113,00.html (294 words)

	Television
		Television signals may, however, be sent clearly from almost any point on earth to any other–and from spacecraft to earth–by means of cables, microwave relay stations, and communications satellites.
		Cable television was first developed in the late 1940s to serve shadow areas–that is, areas that are blocked from receiving signals from a station's transmitting antenna.
		Later, however, the growth of color television was delayed because it had to be compatible with monochrome–that is, color television would have to use the same channels as monochrome television and be receivable in fl and white on monochrome sets.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/CommunicationsTechnologies/Television.html (5408 words)

	1939 in television article - 1939 in television 1938 television other events 1939 1940 television list 'years - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		See also: 1938 in television, other events of 1939, 1940 in television and the list of 'years in television'.
		April - television demonstrations are held at the World's Fair in New York City and the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco, California.
		It was feared that the VHF waves of television would act as a perfect homing signal for guiding enemy bombers to central London: in any case, the engineers of the television service would be needed for the war effort, particularly for RADAR.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/1939_in_television (416 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1940 in television
		Years in television February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
		Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw [1] (born February 6, 1940) is a television journalist and the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
		Ted Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is a television journalist in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1940-in-television (991 words)

	Baird Television Ltd. and Radar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Whether the technologies developed by Baird Television Ltd for Bawdsey Manor were ever operationally used is not recorded in the PRO file AIR 2/2877 However, fortunately Richard H.G. Martin has been able to complete the history of this investigation.
		Television technicians had skills useful to the radar programme and some staff had already left to work on radar development.
		By May 1940 BTL was called Cinema Television Ltd. Starting with just forty staff and one factory, by December 1944 the company had expanded to 1,000 staff in three factories.
	www.bairdtelevision.com /radarco.html (1965 words)

	television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The earliest '''television sets''' were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube with a mechanically spinning disk (the Nipkow disk, invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) that produced a red postage-stamp size image.
		Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over radio waves in the VHF and UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a '''television set''').
		Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents is raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
	q-basic.xodox.de /tv (5002 words)

	The World's First High Definition Colour Television System
		This television picture had 600 lines of resolution, and used a monochromatic cathode-ray tube with a rotating transparent colour wheel in front of it.
		The ideal television service should show a picture in colour and stereoscopic relief and should operate on an international standard of the order of definition represented by 1000 lines in conjunction with an International worldwide Television Broadcasting Service.
		Colour and stereoscopic television were shown for the first time when I gave a demonstration at the annual meeting of the British Association in 1928.
	www.bairdtelevision.com /colour.html (781 words)

	Television History
		Electronic television is based on the development of the cathode ray tube, which is the picture tube found in modern television sets.
		Cable television spread quickly throughout the country to remote and rural areas with the help of Milton Shapp's innovative idea, a master antenna (MATV) that could be used for all televisions in a building.
		The television satellites are all in geosynchronous orbit, that is, they stay in one place in the sky relative to the Earth.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/television.html (2635 words)

	Television: The History
		Television is now considered to be the best source of entertainment and a powerful source of information.
		Television", Murrow was born on April 25,1908 in Guilford County, North Carolina.
		Television was a well respected man within the television and Journalism world.
	library.thinkquest.org /18764/television/history.html (1057 words)

	The 1940 GOP Convention's TV Coverage
		It was the first television station in the history of the world to televise local, non-network reporting of a national political convention.
		According to the July 1940 issue of Radio and Television magazine, the NBC relay was made over a coaxial cable installed by Bell Telephone Labs and ATT (the American Telephone and Telegraph Company).
		Television screens were also used to present the convention to "overflow" crowds in the exhibition hall of the Commercial Museum (not Television Commercials) of Philadelphia that was next door to Philly's Convention Hall.
	broadcastpioneers.50megs.com /40gop.html (2124 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Radio and Television
		Good for (1) showing occupations in radio and television, (2) giving impressions of the nature of the work and the training required in various radio and television jobs, and (3) stressing the importance of selecting reputable schools for training in the more technical aspects of the field.
		Television is described as a field requiring specially trained men who have graduated from radio work.
		A television broadcast of a horse race is shown.
	www.archive.org /details/Radioand1940 (721 words)

	Guardian Century \| 1940-1949 \| Television starts again
		When television reopens again today, the day before the Victory parade in London, it will be nearly seven years since it closed down at the outbreak of war, a much longer time than it was working up to September 1, 1939.
		Television starts where it left off seven years ago, for it is admitted that war-time research has not found any great improvements that could be made immediately.
		Television programmes came direct from some London theatres and many plays were produced in the studio.
	www.guardiancentury.co.uk /1940-1949/Story/0,6051,105113,00.html (285 words)

	CBS
		Arthur Godfrey debuts on CBS Television with "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," (which is already on CBS Radio), followed by "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" (title later changed to "The Arthur Godfrey Show") on January 12, 1949; the show runs until April 28, 1959.
		Television was the baby of broadcasting back when CBS Chairman William S. Paley announced that on Tuesday, April 6 at 7:00 PM, "CBS-TV cameras visit the Alvin Theater in New York City to present...actual play scenes and behind-the-scene glimpses of the Broadway smash hit, 'Mr.
		CBS News provides its first dual radio and television coverage of the political conventions: Radio coverage is nationwide, television coverage is primarily in the East.
	www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline/1940.shtml (858 words)

	DIGITAL TELEVISION: HAS THE REVOLUTION STALLED?
		As television became a viable medium in the United States at the start of the Second World War, the establishment of technical standards in transmission and reception equipment was of vital importance.
		The mission of the committee was to analyze the feasibility of moving to a more advanced television format and to evaluate competing systems.
		Although HDTV (high-definition television) is the most recognized acronym in the field of digital broadcasting, it is not the only digital option.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/dltr/articles/2001dltr0014.html (2717 words)

	1939 in television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 4 - The BBC Television Service broadcasts one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R.
		The 175-minute broadcast is the first showing of a full-length musical on television.
		This marked the first film cartoon to be televised in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1939_in_television (470 words)

	The Nation, 04/06/1940 - How About Television? by Jones, Edgar M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Communications commissioners fear that a few companies are about to recoup their television research costs from an unsuspecting public by exploitation of the half-ready art of visual broadcasting.
		This extraordinary status is defined as authority to charge advertising sponsors for the costs of producing programs but not for the costs of transmission over the air, which will have to be borne by the broadcasting company...
		...Broadcasters estimate that if and when they enter television they will have to bill their clients three times their present charges, and it is common belief that broadcasters who cannot cover themselves with a manufacturing operation-similar to the arrangement between RCA and NBC-will lose considerable sums of money during the first few years of television...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v150i0014_09.htm (2198 words)

	Early television and television shows are explored by your friends at oldetimecooking.com. Come join Chef Brad as ...
		Early television and television shows are explored by your friends at oldetimecooking.com.
		Television was introduced in the United States in the late forties and by the early fifties had become a household fixture.
		There were few television broadcasting stations and they would typically begin broadcasting between six and ten in the morning and "sign-off" around nine or ten at night.
	www.oldetimecooking.com /TV/tv_index.htm (190 words)

	KFYR-TV North Dakota's NBC News Leader
		In the major metropolitan areas, television broadcasts were beginning to take hold and threatening to elbow radio aside.
		By the early ‘50’s television wasn’t exactly new, but it was far from the widespread, pervasive influence it is today.
		In the fall of 1953, if your family was fortunate enough to own a television set and if you were, as it is polite to say, “Of a certain age”, you might have watched The Milton Berle Show, sponsored by Buick on NBC every Tuesday night at 8 PM.
	www.kfyrtv.com /About_Us.htm (935 words)

	Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance.
		An example of an early television set is called a rotary dial-tune TV is outdated technology for a television set.
		Recently "widescreen" has spread from television to computing where both desktop and laptop computers are commonly equipped with widescreen displays, and it remains to be seen whether work or movie enjoyment will take over.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Television.htm (5342 words)

	Animated Television Commercials: 1940-1965 (an overview) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In 1941, with television still feeling it's way around and with less than 5,000 TV sets across the country, the first animated commercial was broadcast.
		As television grew in popularity, they realized that if they were going to keep their market presence, they were going to have to go to where the people were.
		The format became so successful and influential that many political action and moral patrol groups began to seriously monitor its usage for fear that advertisers were 'preying' on the minds of the youth.
	www.digitalmediafx.com /Features/animatedadvertising01.html (1828 words)

	History of television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		1940 - National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) was created by GE's Dr. Walter R. Baker and FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly to standardized competing television technical standards.
		The first committee of 168 members issued the standards March 8, 1941, and approved by the FCC April 30, that have remained in effect to the present day.
		Television would scan at 525 lines per inch at 30 frames per second composed of 60 fields per second interlaced 2 to 1, in a bandwith of 6 MHz.
	www.pledgeco.com /inventions/television.htm (1072 words)

	Animation World Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Television proved that the film industry was not needed in order to produce animated stars.
		Historian Charles Solomon noted that during the 1980-81 television season the Filmation Studio alone produced the equivalent of twenty-five animated features (roughly 38 hours of animation, close to double the output of all seven theatrical studios in 1940).
		Thus, in the case of television, the delivery system itself dictated the amount of commodity to be produced; this was not true of the theatrical method of transmission.
	mag.awn.com /index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1535&page=2 (904 words)

	History and Development of the Television
		The development of television technology can be partitioned along two lines: those developments that depended upon both mechanical and electronic principles, and those which are purely electronic.
		Nipkow's spinning disk design is credited with being the first television image rasterizer, however, it wasn't until 1907 that developments in amplification tube technology made the design practical.
		Scientific American suggested that compulsive television watching was no different from any other addiction, a finding backed up by reports of withdrawal symptoms among families forced by circumstance to cease watching.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/television.htm (4461 words)

	Adam Young Inc.
		Television representation was always an interest of Adam’s, so it only made sense to follow the smart decisions he made in the radio field with even more cutting edge thinking involving television representation.
		Always striving for more, after he conquered the land of TV representation Adam moved on to tackle the organization of the television representatives into a formal association.
		He also served on the Board of Directors of the Television Advertising Bureau from 1977-80 and headed up its research committee for many years.
	www.adamyoung.com /profile.htm (491 words)

	HotAIR - The Effect of Television on Sexual Behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		This past year, an official in India proposed that televisions be given to the nation’s citizens, because televisions are an effective form of birth control.
		In the period since televisions were introduced into the American home, the average number of individuals per household has steadily decreased.
		In 1940, before television was available, 7.1 percent of households consisted of one person, and 9.3 percent consisted of seven persons.
	www.improbable.com /airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i2/tv-sex.html (1107 words)

	American History - Decade 1940 - 1949
		television with 13 stations became available to the public.
		Richard Wright completed Native Son in 1940 and Black Boy in 1945, earning acclaim, but government persecution over his communist affiliation sent him to Paris in 1945.
		With the advent of television later in the decade, they became known as TV Dinners.
	kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /decade40.html (3138 words)

	List of 'years in television' - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		1989 in television - The Simpsons and Seinfeld premiere
		1953 in television - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is seen by approximately 20 million TV viewers in the United Kingdom.
		1940 in television - The FCC holds public hearings on television.
	openproxy.ath.cx /li/List_of_'years_in_television'.html (1173 words)

	Network TV
		1940 - National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) was created by GE's Dr. Walter R. Baker and FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly to standardize competing television technical standards.
		The first committee of 168 members issued the standards March 8, 1941, that were approved by the FCC April 30, and have remained in effect to the present day.
		Television would scan at 525 lines per inch at 30 frames per second composed of 60 fields per second interlaced 2 to 1, in a bandwith of 6 MHz.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/recording/television5.html (850 words)

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