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What year was the Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) invented?
What is 1897?
Between 1943 and 1951, the number of TVs in homes grew from 20,000 to this many.
What is 5 million?
This 1962 satellite enabled the first live transatlantic television broadcasts.
What is Telstar 1?
This music-focused cable channel launched in 1981.
What is MTV?
This company entered the streaming market in January 2007.
What is Netflix?
This inventor patented the spinning disk in 1884, helping create early mechanical television.
Who is Paul Nipkow?
What camera format did I love Lucy pioneer?
What is Multi Camera format?
The first televised presidential debate featured John F. Kennedy and...
Who is Richard Nixon?
This 24-hour news network transformed how audiences consumed breaking news.
What is CNN?
Launched in 2005, this platform revolutionized online video sharing.
What is YouTube?
He is known as the “Father of Television” and invented the first all-electronic TV system.
Who is Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
This TV Network won the color war?
What is the “RCA/ NBC”?
This 1969 space event was called “the greatest single broadcast in television history.”
What is Apollo 11 (Moon Landing)?
This 1984 Act helped expand cable television access in the U.S.
What is the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984?
This 1992 reality show helped redefine television by focusing on real human interactions.
What is The Real World?
Televisions in the 1920s were considered experimental and mostly this type of system.
What are mechanical systems?
Television replaced this older technology as the main source of entertainment and information.
What is radio?
This war became known as “the living room war” because it was broadcast into homes.
What is the Vietnam War?
Sitcoms like Friends and Seinfeld used this sound technique to enhance audience reactions.
What is laugh track?
During 2020, live streaming events increased by approximately...
By 1939 how many televisions were in the UK?
What is 20,000?
By creating shared viewing experiences, television helped shape this larger concept in America.
What is national identity (or shared national culture)?
This movement’s protests were broadcast nationwide, increasing public awareness and accelerating social change.
What is Civil Rights Movement?
Cable led to this audience shift, where viewers were divided across hundreds of channels instead of one shared national audience.
What is audience fragmentation?
Superstations increased actor income through this type of payment from reruns.
What is residuals?