The History of AV Production
and
Associated Technologies
Advanced AV
Production Practicum
The Broadcast Years
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The Broadcast Years (Audio)
1930
Movietone system of recording film
sound on an audio track right on the
film invented.
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The Broadcast Years (Audio)
1940
Walt Disney releases "Fantasia", with
eight-track stereophonic sound.
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The Broadcast Years (Audio)
1947
Ampex produces its first
audio tape recorder, the
Model 200.
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The Broadcast Years (Audio)
1956
Les Paul makes
the first 8-track
recordings using
the "Sel-Sync"
method.
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The Broadcast Years (Audio)
1964
Philips introduces its own
30-minute compact audio
cassette format
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The Broadcast Years (Film)
1927
"The Jazz
Singer”
is the first
successful
talking motion
picture.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1927
NBC starts two radio networks.
CBS is founded.
First television broadcasts in
England.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1939
A handful of TV stations began to broadcast,
led by RCA’s New York City station, a direct
ancestor of today’s WNBC.
By the end of the year, television was
regularly broadcasting in about a dozen
cities.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1941
The first commercial FM radio stations
begin broadcasting.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1945
The Blue Network, part of NBC,
officially becomes the ABC
network. A 1941 FCC ruling
required RCA to divest itself of one
of its two networks.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1949
Network television starts in U.S.
A special broadcast in January
inaugurates East-Midwest TV linkage.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1951
CBS broadcasts the first color program
on June 21, but only 25 receivers can
accommodate mechanical color.
Viewers of 12 million existing sets see
only a blank screen.
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The Broadcast Years (Broadcast)
1969
Public Broadcasting Service begins, and
in November launches "Sesame Street,"
one of the most influential achievements
in children's TV.
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1934
Joseph Begun invents the first tape
recorder for broadcasting
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1948
Transistors are invented - enabling the
miniaturization of electronic devices.
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1948
The earliest cable systems are born in
remote areas of Pennsylvania and
Oregon. Known then as Community
Antenna Television, its function was
simply to bring TV signals into
communities where off-air reception
was either non-existent or poor because
of interfering mountains or distance
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1952
National Association of Radio &
Television Broadcasters ratifies a new
Television Code establishing
guidelines for content and
addressing the concerns of social
critics. Nearly half the code is
devoted to advertising.
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1956
Videotape is introduced by Ampex
Corp. at a CBS-TV affiliates' session.
Most TV shows at the time are
produced by the kinescope process.
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1958
There are 525 cable TV systems serving
450,000 subscribers in the U.S
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1964
FCC issues its first cable regulation:
There are about 1 million homes wired
for cable in the U.S. at the time.
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
1969
ARPANET - the first Internet started
by the Government.
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The Broadcast Years
(Associated Technologies)
The movie “Forbidden Planet” is released
with the first all-electronic film score,
composed by Louis and Bebe Barron.
How did the development of these
broadcast technologies influence society
of the first half of the 20th century?
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