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Television advertisements (variously called a television commercial, commercial, or ad in American English, and known in British English as an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization, which conveys a message, typically to market a product or service. Advertising revenue provides a significant portion ...
boob tube: woman's shoulderless, strapless top (US: tube top) (the boob tube) television (slang) boost to (figuratively) lift up; to improve, increase, revitalize. to (literally) lift up, especially a person: booster cushion*, a cushion used to increase the height of a seat (esp. in a car)
The Tube is a name for the London Underground, a rapid transit system serving Greater London and environs. The Tube may also refer to: Television; The Tube (1982 TV series), a 1982–1987 British music programme on Channel 4; The Tube (2003 TV series), an ITV/Sky programme featuring the work of staff on the London Underground
Boob tube can mean: . Boob tube, US slang for a television set; Boob tube, British term for a tube top; The Boob Tube, a 1975 parody of soap operas/TV commercials, marketed to capitalize on the success of The Groove Tube and similar comedy films of the era
The Tube is a United Kingdom music television programme, which ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 to 24 April 1987. It was filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne and produced for Channel 4 by Tyne Tees Television, which had previously produced the similar music show Alright Now and the music-oriented youth show Check it Out for ITV; production of the latter ended in favour of The Tube.
Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.
The ratio between the width and the height of the picture. In NTSC television sets, this is 4:3; in widescreen (ATSC) sets, 16:9. Sometimes it is printed decimally as 1.33:1 for 4:3 and 1.78:1 for 16:9. Aston (primarily UK) A synonym for lower thirds, the graphics on the bottom part of a television screen. An on-screen overlaid graphic, usually ...
The word "television" is coined by Constantin Perskyi on August 18 at the First International Electricity Congress in Paris. 1907 Boris Rosing transmits silhouette images of geometric shapes, using a Nipkow disc , mirror-drum and a cathode-ray tube receiver.