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During that period, stations began local news programs in the midday and 5:00 p.m. time slots, while morning newscasts began to become common during the 1980s (first on weekdays, with weekend morning newscasts launching in many cities beginning in the early 1990s).
Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948. [1] By 1989, 53 million U.S. households received cable television subscriptions, [2] with 60 percent of all U.S. households doing so in 1992. [3]
The addition of color to broadcast television after 1953 further increased the popularity of television sets in the 1960s, and an outdoor antenna became a common feature of suburban homes. The ubiquitous television set became the display device for the first recorded media in the 1970s, such as VHS and later DVD , as well as for early home ...
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.
14 February 1854: Marshall, Texas connected to Louisiana line. [83] Later 1854: Houston, Texas, Galveston, Texas, and other Texas towns reached by telegraph line. [4] [83] 1855: Internal service within Oregon begins, with link between Portland, Oregon and Oregon City, Oregon. [84] 1856: Service within Oregon extended south to Corvallis. Link to ...
Color televisions were available only in big cities until 1 August 1986. [128] The last station to switch to color TV was Ho Chi Minh City Television which switched on 24 August 1987 after a fire destroyed the entire television center the previous day. Switched to PAL from 1990. U.S. Virgin Islands: 1968 WBNB-TV: NTSC
HDTV has quickly become the standard, with about 85% of all TVs used being HD as of 2018. [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] In the US, the 720p and 1080i formats are used for linear channels, while 1080p is available on a limited basis, mainly for pay-per-view and video on demand content.
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.