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Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set, rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio 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 influencing public 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 earlier cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such as LCDs (both fluorescent-backlit and LED), OLED displays, and plasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs. 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 and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s. (Full article...)
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John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watching flight of Astronaut Alan Shepard on television. Shepard was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon.
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- ... that ethnic broadcasting pioneer Shushma Datt was the first Canadian woman to obtain a CRTC broadcast licence?
- ... that when acting in HBO television series Big Little Lies, Darby Camp received suggestions from Reese Witherspoon, who plays her onscreen mother?
- ... that former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?
- ... that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
- ... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors?
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- ...that the Simpsons short Good Night aired April 19, 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Show and was the first ever appearance of the Simpson family on television?
- ...that the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode Blind Ambition was originally created for the episode Cleveland Loretta Quagmire?
- ...that the proposed BBC television special Planet Relief, created to raise awareness of climate change, was cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics?
- ...that Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show, an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
- ...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
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Thomas John Brokaw (/ˈbroʊkɔː/; born February 6, 1940) is an American retired network television journalist and author. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He formerly held a special correspondent post for NBC News.
Along with his competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News, and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" U.S. news anchors during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. All three hosted their networks' flagship nightly news programs for more than 20 years. (Full article...)General images
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Image 1Public television in France uses 819 line b&w high definition, from 1959 until 1983 (TF1). (from History of television)
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Image 3The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (from History of television)
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Image 4This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system. (from Color television)
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Image 5LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)
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Image 6Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
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Image 8Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
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Image 9RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (from Color television)
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Image 10Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
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Image 11Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
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Image 12A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
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Image 13Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
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Image 15Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
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Image 16Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of television)
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Image 17First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (from History of television)
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Image 18An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
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Image 19DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
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Image 20RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
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Image 21The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
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Image 22LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)
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Image 23Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
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Image 24The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
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(millions)51 1 "North by North Quahog" Peter Shin Seth MacFarlane May 1, 2005 (2005-05-01) 4ACX01 11.87 52 2 "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" Pete Michels Ken Goin May 8, 2005 (2005-05-08) 4ACX02 9.90 53 3 "Blind Ambition" Chuck Klein Steve Callaghan May 15, 2005 (2005-05-15) 4ACX04 9.26 54 4 "Don't Make Me Over" Sarah Frost Gene Laufenberg June 5, 2005 (2005-06-05) 4ACX03 7.35 55 5 "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire" James Purdum Mike Henry & Patrick Henry June 12, 2005 (2005-06-12) 4ACX08 8.21 56 6 "Petarded" Seth Kearsley Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild June 19, 2005 (2005-06-19) 4ACX09 7.17 57 7 "Brian the Bachelor" Dan Povenmire Mark Hentemann June 26, 2005 (2005-06-26) 4ACX10 7.34 58 8 "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" Greg Colton Patrick Meighan July 10, 2005 (2005-07-10) 4ACX11 6.12 59 9 "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" Kurt Dumas Tom Devanney July 17, 2005 (2005-07-17) 4ACX12 5.65 60 10 "Model Misbehavior" Sarah Frost Steve Callaghan July 24, 2005 (2005-07-24) 4ACX13 7.04 61 11 "Peter's Got Woods" Chuck Klein & Zac Moncrief Danny Smith September 11, 2005 (2005-09-11) 4ACX14 9.13 62 12 "Perfect Castaway" James Purdum John Viener September 18, 2005 (2005-09-18) 4ACX15 9.59 63 13 "Jungle Love" Seth Kearsley Mark Hentemann September 25, 2005 (2005-09-25) 4ACX16 8.68 64 14 "PTV" Dan Povenmire Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild November 6, 2005 (2005-11-06) 4ACX17 8.59 65 15 "Brian Goes Back to College" Greg Colton Matt Fleckenstein November 13, 2005 (2005-11-13) 4ACX18 9.20 66 16 "The Courtship of Stewie's Father" Kurt Dumas Kirker Butler November 20, 2005 (2005-11-20) 4ACX19 9.08 67 17 "The Fat Guy Strangler" Sarah Frost Chris Sheridan November 27, 2005 (2005-11-27) 4ACX20 9.85 68 18 "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" James Purdum Danny Smith December 18, 2005 (2005-12-18) 4ACX22 8.26 69 19 "Brian Sings and Swings" Chuck Klein & Zac Moncrief Michael Rowe January 8, 2006 (2006-01-08) 4ACX21 8.10 70 20 "Patriot Games" Cyndi Tang Mike Henry January 29, 2006 (2006-01-29) 4ACX25 9.08 71 21 "I Take Thee Quagmire" Seth Kearsley Tom Maxwell, Don Woodard & Steve Callaghan March 12, 2006 (2006-03-12) 4ACX23 8.06 72 22 "Sibling Rivalry" Dan Povenmire Cherry Chevapravatdumrong March 26, 2006 (2006-03-26) 4ACX24 8.22 73 23 "Deep Throats" Greg Colton Alex Borstein April 9, 2006 (2006-04-09) 4ACX26 7.83 74 24 "Peterotica" Kurt Dumas Patrick Meighan April 23, 2006 (2006-04-23) 4ACX27 7.91 75 25 "You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives" Dominic Polcino David A. Goodman April 30, 2006 (2006-04-30) 4ACX28 7.45 76 26 "Petergeist" Sarah Frost Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild May 7, 2006 (2006-05-07) 4ACX29 8.47 77 27 "The Griffin Family History" Zac Moncrief John Viener May 14, 2006 (2006-05-14) 4ACX30 8.03 78 28 "Stewie B. Goode" Pete Michels Gary Janetti & Chris Sheridan May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) 4ACX05 8.20 79 29 "Bango Was His Name, Oh!" Pete Michels Alex Borstein May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) 4ACX06 7.87 80 30 "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" Pete Michels Steve Callaghan May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) 4ACX07 8.14
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Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the William McKinley High School glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. The show was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, and features many cover versions of songs performed on-screen by the characters. Murphy is responsible for selecting all of the songs used, and strives to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, as he wants there to be "something for everybody in every episode". Once Murphy selects a song, rights are cleared with its publishers by music supervisor P.J. Bloom, and music producer Adam Anders rearranges it for the Glee cast. Numbers are pre-recorded by the cast, while choreographer Zach Woodlee constructs the accompanying dance moves, which are then taught to the cast and filmed. Studio recordings of tracks are then made. The process begins six to eight weeks before each episode is filmed, and can end as late as the day before filming begins.
At the beginning of the season, Murphy intended for the performances to remain reality-based, as opposed to having the characters spontaneously burst into song. As the season progressed, however, Glee began to utilize fantasy sequences, with paraplegic character Artie imagining himself dancing to "The Safety Dance", and six separate characters performing a fantasy version of "Like a Virgin". The first thirteen episodes of the season averaged five songs per episode. For the final nine episodes, the number of performances increased to eight. The list below contains all 132 musical performances of the first season, with each performance delivering an individual song or a mashup of two or more songs in a single performance. (Full article...) -
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The English actor and comedian Terry-Thomas (1911–1990) performed in many mediums of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. His professional career spanned 50 years from 1933 until his retirement in 1983. During this time he became synonymous with playing the "silly-ass Englishman", a characterisation that he had portrayed from his time on the variety circuit.
Terry-Thomas made his film debut as an extra in the 1933 film, The Private Life of Henry VIII, which starred Charles Laughton in the title role; Terry-Thomas continued to undertake a series of small and uncredited film roles while his reputation grew on radio and television. He played his first role on radio in the 1938 BBC tea dance programme Friends to Tea, before spending the Second World War with the Royal Corps of Signals and ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association. (Full article...) -
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Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. From 2011 to 2013, the first two series aired on British network Channel 4, as did the special "White Christmas" (2014); the following four series were released on the American streaming platform Netflix from 2016 to 2023. There are twenty-seven episodes in the show's first six series, and an additional interactive film Bandersnatch (2019). Inspired by The Twilight Zone, each episode of Black Mirror is standalone and explores the common theme of technology and its side-effects.
Black Mirror has received positive reception from critics and has been nominated for ninety-nine awards, winning twenty-nine of them. The most acclaimed episodes are "USS Callister", which won four Emmy Awards, and "San Junipero", which won two. Additionally, the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch won two Emmy Awards. As actors rarely appear in more than one episode, the only people to receive multiple awards for their work on the show are writer Charlie Brooker, who has won seven, and executive producer Annabel Jones, who has won four. The series has been nominated for seventeen British Academy Film Awards, winning two, and fifteen Emmy Awards, winning nine. (Full article...) -
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American singer Katy Perry has released two video albums and has appeared in various music videos, films, television shows, and television commercials. After appearing in several music videos between 2004 and 2007, including "Goodbye for Now" and "Cupid's Chokehold", a video for "Ur So Gay" was released to introduce her to the music industry. In 2008, she released videos for "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold", both taken from her second album One of the Boys. Videos for "Thinking of You" and "Waking Up in Vegas" were released the following year.
Perry's third album Teenage Dream (2010) spawned the single "California Gurls", whose music video is set in the fictional land of "Candyfornia" and features rapper Snoop Dogg. The Yoann Lemoine-directed video "Teenage Dream" depicts her as a euphoric teenager. Her "Firework" video is based on self-empowerment, and won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. The video for "E.T." takes place in outer space, and features rapper Kanye West. Perry also released "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"—a video based on a hangover after a house party—and "The One That Got Away"—which focuses on flashbacks of days with a deceased lover. In 2012, she reissued her third album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, and also released videos for the singles "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake". The following year, Perry released her fourth studio album Prism, with "Roar" as its lead single, whose music video features her in a jungle after a plane crash. The video for her next single, "Unconditionally", is based on unconditional love. In the "Birthday" video, she impersonates five different characters to entertain at birthday parties. She became the first artist to have multiple videos, "Dark Horse" and "Roar", each gain one billion views on Vevo. Perry's fifth album Witness spawned music videos for the songs "Chained to the Rhythm", "Bon Appétit", "Swish Swish", and "Hey Hey Hey". She has 23 vevo certified videos, including for Roar, Last Friday Night, E.T., Never Really Over and Wide Awake. 2 videos have over 3 billion views and a further 3 have over a billion views. (Full article...) -
Image 7The Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a male athlete from the world of action sports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2004 after the non-gender-specific Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was presented the previous two years (with American snowboarder Shaun White receiving the 2003 award). The Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award trophy, created by sculptor Lawrence Nowlan, is presented to the male adjudged to be the best action sports athlete in a given calendar year. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts. It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.
The inaugural winner of the Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award at the 2004 awards was freestyle BMX rider Ryan Nyquist. During 1997 and 2003, Nyquist won eleven out of eighteen available freestyle BMX medals at the X Games. He became the first freestyle BMX rider to be nominated for, and thus the first to win, an ESPY Award. The 2006 winner of the Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was Shaun White. He was nominated a further five consecutive times between the 2008 and 2012 ceremonies, all of which he won, making him the athlete with the most victories with six. The two other athletes to have earned successive awards are street skateboarder Nyjah Huston and motocross rider Ryan Dungey. Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris became the first non-American to win the accolade in 2017 by earning three medals at that year's X Games in Minneapolis. Snowboarders are the most successful sportspeople with seven awards, followed by motocross riders, with four, and street skateboarders, with three. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent winner of the award was American Motocross and Supercross racer Eli Tomac in 2022. (Full article...) -
Image 8Bernard Lee (1908–1981) was an English actor who performed in many light entertainment media, including film, television and theatre. His career spanned from 1934 to 1981, although he made his first appearance on the stage at the age of six. He is perhaps best known for playing M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films.
Lee trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, before making his professional stage debut in 1924. He appeared on film for the first time in 1934 in the Leslie Howard Gordon-directed comedy The Double Event, where he played the part of Dennison. Although he was in wartime service with the Royal Sussex Regiment between 1940 and 1946, he had already been in several films, which were released between 1939 and 1943. He returned to acting after the war and was offered a role in the play Stage Door while awaiting his demob. (Full article...) -
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(millions)1 1 "Death Has a Shadow" Peter Shin Seth MacFarlane January 31, 1999 (1999-01-31) 1ACX01 22.00 2 2 "I Never Met the Dead Man" Michael Dante DiMartino Chris Sheridan April 11, 1999 (1999-04-11) 1ACX02 14.50 3 3 "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" Dominic Polcino Danny Smith April 18, 1999 (1999-04-18) 1ACX04 13.78 4 4 "Mind Over Murder" Roy Allen Smith Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan April 25, 1999 (1999-04-25) 1ACX03 11.69 5 5 "A Hero Sits Next Door" Monte Young Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman May 2, 1999 (1999-05-02) 1ACX05 12.61 6 6 "The Son Also Draws" Neil Affleck Ricky Blitt May 9, 1999 (1999-05-09) 1ACX06 11.20 7 7 "Brian: Portrait of a Dog" Michael Dante DiMartino Gary Janetti May 16, 1999 (1999-05-16) 1ACX07 13.10
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(Full article...)Image 11The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series was an award presented annually by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It was given annually from 1985 to 2019 to honor a young actress below the age of 25, who had delivered an outstanding performance in a role while working within the daytime drama industry.
At the 12th Daytime Emmy Awards held in 1985, Tracey E. Bregman was the first winner of this award, for her role of Lauren Fenmore on The Young and the Restless. The awards ceremony had not been aired on television for the prior two years, having been criticized for voting integrity. The award was originally called Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series, the criteria of the new category were deemed confusing, performers of differing ages were nominated, and critics argued some were of supporting or lead actress standards. Adding to the confusion, the first winner, Bregman, and the Outstanding Supporting Actress winner that year, Beth Maitland, played characters near to the same age. The category was re-named Outstanding Juvenile Female in a Drama Series in 1989, and began using its current title in 1991. The criteria were later altered, requiring that the actress be aged 25 or below. (Full article...)News
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