2007-12-01 14:52:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
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The first stations were licensed in 1941, but broadcasting as we think of it now did not take shape until the late 1940's. There were a few commercial networks; NBC and the DuMont Network were among the early broadcast systems. However, by the mid 1950's, we evolved the structure that we have in the commercial broadcasting system today, at least the main characteristics of it, into three broadcast networks -- NBC, ABC, CBS, to which we have now added a fourth network, FOX. Despite the slow start, broadcasting took off in the late 1940's and diffused throughout the United States in ways that no other invention ever created to date has so diffused. In 1949, only 2% of American households had TV. By 1955, 64% of American households had at least one television set. By the mid 1960's, 93% of American households had a television set. Today, there are very few people (only 2%) who do not have television. In the 1960's, the main reason for not having TV was the fact that they lived in places that could not possibly receive a television signal. That is not the case today; there is not a corner of this country, or a corner of this globe, where a television signal is not available, either by over-the-air broadcast, by cable, or by satellite direct broadcast (see Andreasen, 1990).
2007-12-01 15:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by bailie28 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1960 Television Set
2016-12-12 13:36:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-27 04:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We got our first TV in 1964. We got it in time to see the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
2007-12-02 02:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by mnwomen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's really bad
2016-07-30 08:07:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋