lecture 12 network beginnings in the 1940s
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EMC 2410Intro to Electronic Media
Edward Bowen
Lecture Eleven
Network Beginnings
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1945
• World War II ends.
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1945
• Earlier in April, Edward R. Murrow reports from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp over radio.
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1945
• FCC resumes television licensing, moves FM to another part of the spectrum, allocating open frequencies to television.
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1946
• RCA gets its black and white television sets on the market.
• The FCC adopts RCA’s television format.• The FCC receives 600 applications for TV station
licenses.• Television stations are still experimental and local.
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1946
• FCC chairman Charles Denny resigns and joins NBC as vice president and general counsel.
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1946
• Sports becomes an early hit.• Boxing: Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn on NBC.• Estimate: 150,000 watching on 5000 sets.
WNBT – New York from Yankee Stadium
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1946
• Kinescopes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HbODxTSDmM
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Television Sets
• By the end of 1945, there were fewer than 7,000 working TV sets in the U.S. and only nine stations on the air.
• By 1948, 190,000.• By 1950, 10,500,000.• By 1955, half of all households in U.S. owned a
television set.
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Network Building
• 1928: NBC is the first permanent coast to coast radio network. Stations are linked using dedicated telephone lines.
• 1940 - 1941: Experimental NBC television transmissions from New York to Philadelphia and Schenectady over relay antennas.
• 1946 - 1949: The DuMont Network uses coaxial cable to join three television stations in New York, Washington DC and Pittsburgh. First post-war network.
• 1947: NBC links New York, Philadelphia, Schenectady, Boston and Baltimore.
• 1947-1948: CBS and ABC begin television operations.
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1947
• Opening of Congress televised.• Medical operation televised by NBC and watched by
several hundred doctors and nurses.
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1947
• Sports becomes a television mainstay.• The World Series on NBC.
http://www.thoughtequity.com/video/clip/5110009AA6729_005.do
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1947
• Sports becomes a television mainstay. • Zoomar lens introduced for CBS telecast of the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kiQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=zoomar+1947&source=bl&ots=8szmvxupYk&sig=TR75yiv_smY65IHEb-Mrx2GSB0k&hl=en&ei=Q12zTJf9CYSBlAftlsGxCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false
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1947• Sports becomes a television mainstay. • Zoomar lens introduced for CBS telecast of the Brooklyn
Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.• Wrestling personalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFksSkMllT8
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1947• Sports becomes a television mainstay. • Zoomar lens introduced for CBS telecast of the Brooklyn
Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.• Wrestling personalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmb9Mr3CYGI
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1947• Sports becomes a television mainstay. • Zoomar lens introduced for CBS telecast of the Brooklyn
Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.• Wrestling personalities.• Roller Derby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCExtdqhuFQ
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1947
• Children’s Television begins with Howdy Doody from New York …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-IPXpvRaU
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1947
• Children’s Television begins with Howdy Doody from New York …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_8x4w4o7YI
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1947
• Children’s Television begins with “Howdy Doody” from New York, and “Kukla, Fran and Ollie” from Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYik7iwbYqs
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1947
• NBC and CBS gain sponsors for evening news broadcasts.
John Cameron Swayze - NBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_duF46SmTs
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1948
• NBC and CBS gain sponsors for evening news broadcasts.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4068469n
Douglas Edwards - CBS
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Television Pioneers: Edward R. Murrow
• 1908: Born April 25.• 1935: Joins CBS as Director of Talks.• 1937: Becomes CBS’s Director of European Operations.• 1940: “This is London.” Helps create “London After Dark.”• 1945: Buchenwald.• 1951: Launches “See It Now.”• 1953: Premieres “Person to Person.”
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Television Pioneers: Edward R. Murrow