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Television (TV) is atelecommunicationmedium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium oftransmission. Television is amass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent toradio receivers.
Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencingpublic opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries.
In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of earliercathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such asLCDs (bothfluorescent-backlit andLED),OLED displays, andplasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were stillCRT, and it was only in early 2010s that flat-screen TVs decisively overtook CRT. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT,Digital Light Processing (DLP), plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. LEDs are being gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have started increasingly producing smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet andWeb 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s.[better source needed] (Full article...)

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CRT TV set "Wisła" ("Vistula") made in Poland, since 1955, byWarszawskie Zakłady Telewizyjne

| Television is for appearing on, not looking at. |
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart JenningsCM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor ofABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death fromlung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists.
Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at age 9. He began his professional career withCJOH-TV inOttawa during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting the teen dance showSaturday Date on Saturdays and then co-anchoring theCTV Television Network's national newscast. In 1965,ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. Critics and others in the television news business attacked his inexperience, making his job difficult. He became a foreign correspondent in 1968, reporting from theMiddle East. (Full article...)



History of television:Early television stations•Geographical usage of television•Golden Age of Television•List of experimental television stations•List of years in television •Mechanical television •Social aspects of television•Television systems before 1940•Timeline of the introduction of television in countries•Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries
Inventors and pioneers:John Logie Baird•Alan Blumlein•Walter Bruch •Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton•Allen B. DuMont•Philo Taylor Farnsworth•Charles Francis Jenkins•Boris Grabovsky•Paul Gottlieb Nipkow•Constantin Perskyi•Boris Rosing•David Sarnoff•Kálmán Tihanyi•Vladimir Zworykin
Technology:Comparison of display technology•Digital television•Liquid crystal display television•Large-screen television technology•Technology of television
Terms:Broadcast television systems•Composite monitor•HDTV•Liquid crystal display television•PAL•Picture-in-picture•Pay-per-view•Plasma display•NICAM•NTSC•SECAM
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