TELEVISION MILESTONES TIME LINE

1923 1927*** 1948 19481952 1954 1960 1965

ZWORYKIN INVENTS ICONOSCOPE TUBE FARNSWORTH APPLIES FOR PATENT TV TAKES OFF TV STATIONS LICENSE FREEZE SPURS CABLE TV DISNEY STUDIO MAKES DISNEYLAND FOR ABC KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES ON TV COLOR TV

1967

1968 1972 1975

CARNEGIE COMMISSION ON EDUCATIONAL TV; CONGRESS PASSES PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT TV COVERAGE OF VIETNAM TET OFFENSIVE FCC ALLOWS URBAN CABLE SYSTEMS HBO GOES NATIONAL VIA SATELLITE

1979-1984

1987 1994

CABLE TV FRANCHISE WARS IN LARGE CITIES, RISE OF TCI,TIME WARNER FOX TV NETWORK DEBUTS
U.S. DBS SYSTEMS LAUNCHED

1994 1995

1996

1998

TIME WARNER STARTS WB TELEVISION NETWORK; VIACOM, OWNERS OF PARAMOUNT AND UNIVERSAL, STARTS UPN NETWORK TELECOMM ACT PERMITS VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF NETS, STUDIOS, CABLE AT&T BUYS TCI CABLE TELEPHONE CONVERGENCE

1884

1923

1930

1930s 1936 1939

PAUL NIPKOW, GERMAN ENGINEER, INVENTS MECHANICAL SCANNING DEVICE VLADAMIR KOSMA ZWORYKIN DEVELOPS AN ALL ELECTRONIC TV TUBE, THE ICONOSCOPE PHILO FRANSWORTH PATENTED HIS VERSION OF AN ELECTRONIC SCANNING DEVICE RCA EXPERIMENTS WITH MECHANICAL TV BBC BEGINS REGULAR TV SERVICE USING MECHANICAL TELEVISION NBC OWNED BY RCA DEMOSNTRATES ELECTRONIC TV AT NY WORLD FAIR.

1941

FIRST COMMERCIAL TV STATION IN THE USA BEGINS

1935 --- THE FIRST BRITISH BROADCAST 1939 --- THE FIRST U.S. BROADCAST WAS COLUMBIA- YALE. 1952 --- FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMISSION (FCC) CLARIFIED THE VHF (VERY HIGH FREQUENCY) TV BAND (CHANNEL 2 13) AND OPENED THE UHF (ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY ) BAND (CHANNELS 14 69). VHF STATIONS OFFER BETTER SIGNAL OVER A GREATER DISTANCE.

TV TRANSMISSION

TWO FREQUENCY BANDS

VHF OR UHF EACH CHANNEL IS ALLOCATED A RANGE OF FREQUENCIES OR BANDWIDTH OF 6 MHz M = 1 MILLION

Hz = HERTZ ( A MEASURE OF FREQUENCY OF THE SIGNAL IN CYCLES PER SECOND).

12 VHF CHANNELS (CHANNELS 2 -13) IN THE FREQUENCIES OF 54 72, 76 88 AND 174 216 MHz 56 UHF CHANNELS 14 69 (470 806 MHz).

UHF STATIONS (CHANNEL 14-69) LIMITED RANGE AND POWER

LESS ATTRACTIVE AS NETWORK AFFILIATES.

MOSTLY INDEPENDENT STATIONS. TO CAPTURE AUDIENCE, UHF STATIONS PROGRAM OLD MOVIES, POPULAR TV RERUNS.

STATIONS ARE CATEGORIZED BY CHANNELS ACCORDING TO THE FREQUENCY THAT WAS ASSIGNED.

45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 NUMBER OF STATIONS UHF VHF UHF FACI

PENYIARAN TV MULAI BERKEMBANG SELEPAS PERANG DUNIA II (WWII). 1948 MEMPERLIHATKAN TV MENGAMBIL-ALIH PENDAPATAN IKLAN.

1948---- SIARAN KONVENSYEN POLITIK DARI PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK DAN WASHINGTON. 1952 ---- 108 STESEN SELURUH AMERIKA DIGABUNGKAN KETIKA KONVENSYEN POLITIK.

1927

NBC BEGINS TWO RADIO NETWORKS; CBS FORMED

FARNSWORTH ASSEMBLES A COMPLETE ELECTRONIC TV SYSTEM JOLSONS THE JAZZ SINGER IS THE FIRST POPULAR TALKIE MOVIETONE OFFERS NEWSREELS IN SOUND TECHNICOLOR

NEGATIVE FEEDBACK MAKES HI-FI POSSIBLE

1928
BAIRD DEMONSTRATES COLOR TV ON ELECTRO-MECHANICAL BEGINS.

TELEVISION SETS ARE PUT IN THREE HOMES, PROGRAMMING BEGINS

BAIRD INVENTS A VIDEO DISC TO RECORD TELEVISION IN AN EXPERIMENT, TELEVISION CROSSES THE ATLANTIC IN N.Y. THE FIRST SCHEDULED TV BROADCASTS

TELEVISION IN MALAYSIA 1963--- TV1 WAS INTRODUCED (THE PRIME NETWORK) 1969--- TV2 (THE GOLDEN NETWORK) DIRECT CONTROL MINISTRY OF INFORMATION

1984 --- TV3 A PRIVATE INTRODUCED

42 %

26%

25%
7%

TV3

NTV7

TV2

TV1