Television History
Technology affects our lifestyles, whether you think so or not. Televisions advertise and you buy, buy, buy. Cell phones and beepers and computers in our cars, just how good is all this technology anyway? What good is it when someone will look a long time for a TV remote control before simply getting up to turn it on by hand! We have changed technology, and technology has changed us, in many ways. One technology that has advanced and changed us in America in the past one-hundred is the TV.It's hard to know where to begin. I would say that the main ah change that television has made, at least here in the States, is that it's become the command centre of our culture. Television is quite different from other media such as film or theatre or music. People go to the movies to see the move and then they go home. And they go to the theatre to see the play and then go home or listen to a record to hear the music and that's it. But here in the States we go to television for everything. So that we go there for our politics, for our popular literature, for our religion, for our news, commerce. So that television has become a kind of analogue to what the medieval church was in say the 14th or 15th centuries. For a
ABC television service was introduced to the other States by the end of June, 1960. (Brisbane on 2 November, 1959, and in 1960, Adelaide on 11 March, Perth on 7 May and Hobart on 4 June.) As in the early days of radio, television broadcasts did not yet extend from early morning until late at night. Although cable television reaches only 58.5 percent of all American households, chances are that cable is available in your area. At almost fifty years old, cable television is still a very young industry. Nearly 60 million households currently subscribe to cable, with technological advancements allowing cable to reach hundreds of new subscribers every day. Thanks to the work of cable industry pioneers like Mr. Walson, Mr. Tarlton and Mr. Shapp, and the foresight of HBO to deliver their signal by satellite, cable television today provides American viewers with the greatest variety in programming available. Because programming services available to cable are delivered via satellite, millions of Americans have access to: The first television broadcast in Australia was by the commercial station TCN-9, in September, 1956. Just over a month later, on November 5 in Sydney, the Prime Minister, R G Menzies, inaugurated the ABC's first television broadcast. The first broadcast from Melbourne's television studios took place two weeks later, on 19 November, just in time for ABC-TV's coverage of the 1956 Olympic Games. * 24-hour music channels (Music Television, VH-1 and the Nashville Network)
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