CBS is one of the most iconic names in the broadcasting industry. With a history dating back to radio in the late 1920s, it went on to become one of the original three television stations in 1951. Over the next 65 years, the station would continue to set the bar in broadcasting with groundbreaking programming in game shows, daytime television, sitcoms, dramas, news and reality television. Off and on, it has been the most watched station for its entire run. Read on to find out more about CBS and its history.
Number Ten: CBS Was the First to Experiment with Color Television
CBS did its first color experiment on August 28, 1940, nearly six months before NBC started doing theirs in February 1941. The “color wheel” system was successful, although
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If you consider the game show’s prior incarnation, it has been on for 53 years, however, those nine years were not with CBS. It is also the only game show that has aired on all three major television networks.
Number Seven: The Eye Logo Was Based Off a Shaker Drawing
CBS’ eye logo has been with the station for nearly 65 years and has become one of the most iconic images in television history. It was created by the network’s creative director, Bill Golden, after seeing drawings Shakers made on their buildings to ward off the evil eye. The logo was first used on the station in 1951.
Number Six: You Can’t Watch New Episodes of Their Shows on HULU
CBS is the only broadcast channel that does not put their current programming on the free streaming service. In 2012, they finally made a deal with Hulu, but it is only for their back catalogue and you need a Hulu Plus subscription to watch it.
Number Five: They Have the First 24-Hour Live-Streaming News
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For their unique business model, the company has earned several awards, including Edison Awards for Social Innovation and Social Impact in both 2012 and 2013.
Number Three: They Were the Only Station to Operate During 9/11
WCBS-TV in New York was the only station that did not lose their broadcast when the planes hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. After the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, they invested in a back-up transmitter in the Empire State Building. CBS ended up loaning other stations their broadcast until they were able to get themselves back into operation.
Number Two: All Stations Have a Similar Name
Known by the names the “CBS Mandate” and the “Viacom Mandate,” most of their stations follow the same naming pattern. With the exception of five of their stations, all names are “CBS” plus the station number. For example, WCBS-TV is called CBS 2.
Number One: There are Only Three States That Do Not Have a CBS
On September 16th 1956 the black and white television became available in Australia. An early model
Ralph Nader, Mark Green and Joel Seligman, in an excerpt from Taming the Giant Corporation (1976, found in Honest Work by Ciulla, Martin and Solomon), take the current role of the company board of directors and suggest changes that should be made to make the board to be efficient. They claim the current makeup of the board does not necessarily do justice to the company because “in nearly every large American business…there exists a management autocracy” (Nader, Green and Seligman, 1976, p.570). The main resolution they present is to make the board more democratic with the betterment of the company as its first priority. Currently the board no longer oversees operations, or elects top company executives and they are no longer involved in the business operations to the extent they should be. Nadar, Green and Seligman argue that that all of these things need to be changed. For a corporation so large to be successful there must be separation of powers just as there is in any current government system ( p.571). They claim this is the only and best way to success (Nader, Green and Seligman, 1976, p.570-571).
...the very first Western in color. October 2nd The Twilight Zone is introduced by CBS. RCA sells 90,000 color T.V. sets. In 1960, after spending more than $130 Million in research and advertising, color television finally records its first profit for RCA. From a production standpoint, the one million units per year barrier are not broken until 1964.
never even existed. Perhaps he saw it coming because of how popular the television was
Another main version of the television was patented in 1929. This was Vladimir K. Zworykin’s kinescope, which was a cathode-ray tube. The storage principle it used is one of the main components of modern-day televisions.
To buy a television it was like to buy a brand new car. In the 1907 the word television was used by scientific American magazine to describe the transmission of moving picture. John L. Baird, a Scottish inventor first telecasted and object in motion in England, 1926 using mechanical television. In 1923 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian born American and father of modern television and Philo Taylor invented modern television by using electronic scanning of imaginary on television. On September 7, 1927, Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the transmission of television signal. Television innovations from 1930-1960 created a new way for the entire country to be involved with the current events.
The ‘Golden Age of Television’ is what many refer to as the period between the 1950s and 60s when the television began to establish itself as a prevalent medium in the United States. In 1947, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the Du Mont Network were the four main television networks that ran stations with regular programming taking place. (Television, 2003) While regular television programming was a new innovation, the television itself had been commercially available for over twenty years prior to the 50s. It was conceived by many worldly innovators and went through several testing stages before it was finally completed in the late twenties. The three main innovators were Niplow - who first developed a rotating disk with small holes arranged in a spiral pattern in 1884, Zworykin - who developed the Iconoscope which could scan pictures and break them into electronic signals (a primitive form of the Cathode Ray Tube) in 1923, and lastly Fansworth - who demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to transmit an electrical image in 1927. (Rollo, 2011) However, one of the many reasons why this medium was successful in the 50s was due to the fact that it became more accessible to the public. Television sets were more affordable to middle class citizens which created further interest in the new technology. Through an historical account of the medium, the spread of television across America throughout this particular decade will be examined.
Normally, newspapers were the first source of news to utilize and distribute among the people, but due to tragic events in history, it influenced Americans to use their televisions more than common. Television similar to social media is quicker at delivering recent events. In the late 1960s, more than 81% of Americans owned televisions. As a result, this drastically decreased newspaper profits (Sneed). Since the late 1960s, television broadcast channels augmented their air time from half an hour to more than one hour. Television channels like CBS and ABC attracted more viewers after displaying more content for more than half an hour (Sneed). The late 1960s popularized the
In our world today every country has their own set of avowed and ascribed identities for it's population. An avowed identity is one a person gives to themselves, a woman might say she’s a sister or a wife. The opposite of that is an ascribed identity, or how society sees someone. For example, a rich person could be perceived as a snob. To ascribe someone with an identity is to judge them based on societal norms. The entertainment industry in America is no different then it's parent culture. Both men and women in this industry have identities placed on them, and they change based on their career. Women are given more negative ascriptions than men in the media. That is how Americans identify people they read about, with the identities the media gives them. Women are more negatively perceived that men in the music and fashion industry because of their ascribed identities in the media, and gender roles in our nation.
Have u ever thought about African Americans invalid with television? If not in this report you will learn about how African Americans have influenced television. You will learn about television shows that have effected television and also just certain people that have effected television also. Commercial television was born in 1948 as each of the three major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, began broadcasting. 1948 was also a great year in African American history with the desegregation of the United States armed forces to see Blacks in the American Military and an endorsement of civil rights in the presidential platform of the Democratic Party headed by President Harry S. Truman.
The second service to use the satellite was a local television station in Atlanta that broadcast primarily sports and classic movies. The station, owned by R.E Turner, substituted its existing microwave distribution with satellite distribution, and soon became known as the first "super station" WTBS.By the end of the decade, nearly 15 million households were cable subscribers.
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and decided to look into it. At this time television had already been invented by some inventors such as Paul Nipkow
When we choose a channel on the television, when we choose a newspaper, there are hundreds of options. Sometimes it is hard to choose one thing because there are too many options. However, is each station belongs to each media company? No, in case of United States, the companies called “Big six”; Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, News Corporation, Time Warner, CBS Corporation, Viacom owns most of mass media including broadcast, cable tv, newspaper, and various online entities. “The fact of one organization owning more than one type of public communications business.” This is a definition of Cross-Media Ownership from Cambridge Dictionary Online and this is what exactly media industry looks like in the United States.
The United States’ longest running program is actually a news/talk show called Meet the Press. It began as a radio program in 1945, and had little changes when it was aired on NBC for the first half-hour television broadcast in November 1947. Meet the Press May have been the first talk show to be shown on television, but it wasn’t the first regularly scheduled talk show. Sylvester Weaver produced the first regularly programmed talk show called Broadway Open House from May 1950 to August 1951. Two Veteran Jerry Lester and Morey Amsterdam, who were stand up comedians, shared the hosting duties for this talk/variety program. Broadway Open House was a mixture of routines, singing, dancing and comedy, which would start a trend of new talk shows to soon follow. The Tonight Show staring Johnny Carson, which premiered October 1, 1962, was one of those shows that followed Broadway Open House. With Johnny’s little competition, appearing on his show became one of the first big breaks for many upcoming stars on the road of fame and fortune. His show became so big that Johnny negotiated a deal with NBC to give him 2 million dollars per year, while his taping schedule included twelve weeks of four shows weekly, twenty-five weeks of only three shows a week, and fifteen weeks of vacation. Some of the stars that made got their start on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson were people like Jerry Seinfield, Roseanne, and Gary Shandling. When Johnny Carson decided to retire, his show was given to comedian Jay Leno, making The Tonight Show one of the greatest and longest running shows ever.