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   The History of Television...by Larry Castelot

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   A Brief History               Color is created!               Compare Color to Black & White

Did you know there are more television sets in the world than there are telephones? Even the television professionals find it hard to believe. However it is true; according to official figures from the International Telecommunication Union there were 565 million telephones in 1983, and 600 million television sets. Other figures are just as impressive: in Belgium, from 1967 to 1982, the average time spent watching television by children from 10 to 13 years, increased from 82 to 146 minutes per day.  Stupefying in every sense of the word.

The first successful television transmissions occured between 1928 and 1935. Because the pictures in this system were
composed of only 30 lines, small details could not be seen. This television was know as a low definition system.
Several hundred lines are needed to give definition that looks like to a photograph.

The first high definition system was introduced by the "BBC" (British Broadcasting Company) in 1936. This system was made up of 405 lines. In 1964, they introduced a second high definition television set. This was a 625 line system that was better ,so it gave an even better picture than ever before.

  Color TV booms as NBC leads the way and begins to use the phrase "The Full Color Network". By
year's end, 96% of NBC's nighttime schedule is broadcast in color, along with all major programs, sports events and specials. About 2.7 million color sets are sold, more than twice as many as in 1964. Advertisers, increasingly leery of showing their commercials on color programs, rush into using color.