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Internet television (Internet TV), (online television) or IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is the digital distribution of television content via the Internet as opposed to traditional systems like terrestrial, cable and satellite, although internet itself is received by terrestrial, cable or satellite methods. Internet television is a ...
Company Started mfg Ended mfg Notes Acer Inc. 2001 2009 ASUS Admiral: 1940 1979 Aiwa - - Akai: c. 1966: present Alba: 1939 present Formerly part of Harvard International Amstrad - - Andrea Electronics 1947 1978 Apex Digital: 1997 2010 Apple Inc. 1993 present Released the Macintosh TV in 1993 Arcam: 2011 present Arise India: 2012 present AGA AB ...
Guglielmo Marconi The Marconi Company was formed in England in 1910. The photo shows a typical early scene, from 1906, with Marconi employee Donald Manson at right. Lee DeForest broadcasting Columbia phonograph records on pioneering New York station 2XG, in 1916 [1] The British Broadcasting Corporation's landmark and iconic London headquarters, Broadcasting House, opened in 1932.
Ion Television – Ion Television (originally known as Pax TV from 1998 to 2005, i: Independent Television from 2005 to 2007) is a mid-sized network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company; it airs off-network repeats of recent television series (usually a daily block of one series) for eighteen hours per day ...
The deal was, at the time, the largest non-oil merger in world business history. [139] This records surpassed later that year by the merger of General Electric and RCA (the latter company then being the parent company of NBC). [140] The merger between ABC and Capital Cities received federal approval on September 5, 1985.
For most of the history of television in the United States, the Big Three dominated, controlling the vast majority of television broadcasting. [8] DuMont ceased regular programming in 1955; the NTA Film Network, unusual in that its programming, all pre-recorded, was distributed by mail instead of through communications wires, signed on in 1956 and lasted until 1961.
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.
In the United States, television is available via broadcast (also known as "over-the-air" or OTA) – the earliest method of receiving television programming, which merely requires an antenna and an equipped internal or external tuner capable of picking up channels that transmit on the two principal broadcast bands, very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF), to receive the ...