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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Television of the United States; American family watching TV in 1958. Timeline; Networks; History. Prewar broadcasting; Golden Age; Network era; Multi-channel transition;
A television set, also called a television receiver, television, TV set, TV, or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tubes .
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries and territories; Timeline of the introduction of television in countries; Timeline of broadcasting in Turkey; List of years in Turkish television
This article gives a list of United States network television schedules including prime time (since 1946), daytime (since 1947), late night (since 1950), overnight (since 2020), morning (since 2021), and afternoon (since 2021). The variously three to six larger commercial U.S. television networks each has its schedule. which is altered each ...
Introduction of color television in countries by decade. This is a list of when the first color television broadcasts were transmitted to the general public. Non-public field tests, closed-circuit demonstrations and broadcasts available from other countries are not included, while including dates when the last black-and-white stations in the country switched to color or shutdown all black-and ...
Timeline of the introduction of television in countries and regions (1928–2018) Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries (1950–1987) Timeline of CGI in film and television (1961–present) Library science. Timeline of women in library science