History of TV Media

Before the time of 1947, the number of homes in the United States that had television sets were measured in thousands, not everybody in the U.S had a television set. By the 1990s, at least 98 percent of Americans had a television set. Most of the TVs in that Americans had been on at least more than 7 hours a day. “The typical American spends (depending on the survey and the time of year) from two-and a half to almost five hours a day watching television.” (Stephens) It is so amazing how a television can bring more and more people in to watch TV, instead of engaging in other activities, such as being crafty, or reading, or going to the gym. A person that watches TV too much, hurts the human eye, also causes stress in the brain which causes headaches, and sometimes seizures. It is not healthy to watch TV; a human should only be watching TV for 30 minutes a day.

“Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on September 7, 1927.” (Stephens) Television sets were designed by Philo Taylor, a 21 year old inelegant boy who had no electricity in the family home from the age 14 to 21. While Philo was still in school, he had took pictures of moving things in a form that he could code them onto radio waves, so it could go on a projector and bounce a picture onto the screen. The first image that was transmitted onto a signal line was invited by John Baird from New England, and Charles Jenkins from the United States, the image was transmitted on in the earlier in the 1920.

The first sport that was captured on television was May 17, 1939, between Princeton and Columbia Universities. The baseball game was captured by a single camera. When the actors would play in front of the camera, the actors had to wear bl...

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..., the television started to upgrade to more cable shows, and high definition. The federal government gave broadcasters their own television station. In 1998, World Wide Web was taking over television; computers could handle video better then handling text. Television schedules were in the news paper, so on every Sunday paper came, you could see all the movies and shows that would be playing that week. I remember when this time, every Sunday morning before or after church I would go get the Sunday paper for my grandfather, and he would look at all the movies and shows that were playing, because at that time my family didn’t have cable or dish, any of that high technology, we had the old antennas, which was one of the things that had came out when televisions were being introduced. Antennas looks like big large bunny ears, and that was how we got a TV signal.