Cinema Pre-Digital by Elliot Claypole on Scribd
TV1920s – First TV Transmission
1932 - The first BBC channel was BBC 1 which starts broadcasting British TV was shut down during War time 1949 – BBC TV Midlands transmitter opens 1953 – Coronation of Elizabeth II – Biggest audience 1950s – TV Remote is invented 1965 – First transatlantic TV transmission 1969 – First TV pictures of Men on the Moon 1981 – Biggest outside broadcast of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer 1982 – ITV and Channel 4 Launch 1989 – Launch of Sky TV 1997 – Channel 5 Start Broadcasting 2007 – Analogue TV begins to close 2007 – BBC Launches BBC iPlayer 2012 – BBC Television Studio closes and moves assets to other BBC sites e.g. BBC Broadcasting House 2012 – Netflix launches it’s streaming services 2016 – BBC 3 becomes online only |
Radio1888 – Hertz detects and produces radio waves
1900 - First weak transmission of a voice. 1900 – Fessenden transmits human speech via radio waves 1904 – First music transmission 1906 – First radio program with music and voice was transmitted 1910 – Radio communication gains publicity when a captain alerts Scotland via radio of an escaping criminal 1935 - FM Radio is born but only in mono. 1952 – Sony offers a miniature transistor radio this is the first AM/FM 2005 – Internet Radio is launched |