The History of American Broadcasting

Introduced in 1837, this allowed written code to be transmitted from one area to another

• telephone

• telegraph

• wireless radio

• techniscope

Started in 1981 this cable network began playing music videos, forever changing the music industry

• VH1

• CMT

• MTV

• GAC

This was the first way for consumers to watch movies in a digital format from home *

• DVD

• Bluray

• Laserdisc

• HD-DVD

This as a committee that was established in 1951 to help transition to color television

• EPA

• FEMA

• NTSC

• FCC

In this year U.S. television stations begin to broadcast a digital signal.

• 1948

• 1966

• 1999

• 1985

In 1936 this major sporting event was televised

• The World Cup

• Super Bowl III

• The Berlin Olympics

• The World Series

This was the location of the first Radio Station in 1920.

• New York

• Los Angeles

• Pittsburgh

• Philadelphia

Zworykin developed this component that enabled the first practical tube camera in 1933.

• Image Dissector Tube

• Iconoscope

• UHF

• VHF

First major Network to broadcast a color signal

• CBS

• ABC

• NBC

• PBS

This digital format was introduced in The United States in 1997 and replaced VHS as the dominant home video format.

• LaserDisc

• BluRay

• DVD

• DivX