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  2. 3 days ago · Timeline of the introduction of television in countries. A map showing when television was introduced in each country. 1939 and before. 1940s. 1950s. 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. 2000 and after. No television. No data. This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries.

  3. May 20, 2024 · Television in the United States, the body of television programming created and broadcast in the United States. American TV programs, like American popular culture in general in the 20th and early 21st centuries, have spread far beyond the boundaries of the United States and have had a pervasive influence on global popular culture.

  4. 2 days ago · Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...

  5. May 9, 2024 · While journalists, cultural critics, technology writers, and industry figures have been writing about television for a surprisingly long time (going back at least to experiments with mechanical television in the late 1920s), the academic study of television history largely emerged only in the 1970s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

  6. May 9, 2024 · The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on network television, and the increasingly widespread use of VCRs, cable TV, and remote control in American living rooms.

  7. May 17, 2024 · Philo Farnsworth, American inventor who developed the first all-electronic television system. He made his first successful electronic television transmission in 1927. Farnsworth’s later work included the fusor, a proposed nuclear fusion device. Learn more about his life and career.

  8. May 7, 2024 · Cable television, generally, any system that distributes television signals by means of coaxial or fiber-optic cables. Cable-television systems originated in the United States in the late 1940s and were designed to improve reception of commercial network broadcasts in remote and hilly areas.

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