How could the happy homemaker of today possibly accomplish a given days tasks without the aid of TV programming designed for the kids? Without this baby-sitting technology a lot of seemingly necessary things just wouldn’t get done. But as nearly anyone will tell you, TV is not just for kids anymore, if in fact it ever was.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) first aired Saturday morning TV shows for children on August 19, 1950. Although I can recall intently viewing numerous programs practically every Saturday AM during my pre teen years, I can honestly report that a number of regular broadcasts have failed miserably to create discontent in regard to my current viewing pleasure. In short ... I still enjoy watching an occasional segment on the History Channel, or and episode or movie on HBO, etc., as well as the traditional networks.
Television, like radio, was not invented by a single individual, but by many people working together and alone over the years, which contributed to the evolution of television as we know it.
Early inventors tried to either build a mechanical television system based on the technology of German native Paul Nipkow's rotating disks which he invented in 1884; or they attempted to build an electronic television system that was developed independently in 1907 by the English inventor A.A. Campbell-Swinton and Russian scientist Boris Rosing.
Electronic television is based on the invention and design of the cathode ray tube, which is a glorified name for the picture tube found in modern TV sets of today. This had been invented several years earlier by another German scientist named Karl Braun in 1897.
Electronic television systems simply worked better than mechanical systems which quite naturally resulted in the eventual replaced of the earlier mechanical systems with the “new and improved” electronic systems.
In mid December of 1953, with the help of a Russian born American emigrant Vladimir Zworykin, a successful color television system began broadcasting; it was introduced by RCA who obtained the first authorization by the FCC to operate in “living color”. This is not to say color TV was invented in 1953, in fact it had been around for nearly 50 years. The 1904 German mechanical patent was the earliest, while Zworykin had in 1925 filed a US
By 1948 there was an estimated one million TV’s in the US
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