Television Timeline Outline

Willoughy Smith Discovers the Photoconductivity of Selenium
(1873)

One of the Earliest Systems of Television Transmission
(1880)

The First Separate Publication on Television
(1880)

Probably the Earliest Concept for CRT Television
(June 18, 1908)

An Early Sci-Fi View of the Internet and Virtual Reality
(November 1909)

The First Electronic Television Camera
(1923)

The First Demonstration of Television
(January 26, 1926)

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover Participates in the First American Demonstration of Television
(April 7, 1927)

The First All-Electronic Television
(September 7, 1927)

The First Television Journal
(March 1928)

"Regular" Television Broadcasting
(May 11, 1928)

The First Experimental Television Service
(1929)

Public Television Broadcasting Begins
(1932)

Frequency Modulation (FM)
(1933 – 1936)

Six TV Stations
(1946)

The First Commercial Television Network
(1946 – 1956)

Introduction of Cable Television
(June 1948)

"Mr. Television" Causes the Sale of TV Sets to Double
(June 1948)

10,000,000 TV Sets
(1949)

Pioneer Televangelist
(1951)

National Educational Television
(1952)

Color Television Broadcasting
(January 22, 1954)

The First Color Television
(March 24, 1954)

One of the Earliest Surviving British Television Dramas
(December 12 – December 14, 1954)

The First Satellite to Relay Signals from Earth to Satellite and Back
(June 10, 1962)

"The Medium is the Message"
(1964)

The First Geostationary Communication Satellite
(August 19, 1964)

The First Commercial Communications Satellite to be Placed in Geosynchronous Orbit
(April 6, 1965)

The First Live, International Satellite Television Production
(June 25, 1967)

PBS is Founded
(October 5, 1970)

The First Home Video Game Console
(May 24, 1972)

Home Pong
(1975)

CNN is Launched
(June 1, 1980)

The Declining Role of Print in Total Information Flow
(1983)

Digital HDTV
(1989)

Invention of "Buffered Media," the Basis for Webcasting
(1989)

The First Successful Telepresence Company
(1993)

The First Television Series to Use Computer Generated Images
(February 22, 1993 – January 26, 1994)

The First Television Show Broadcast over the Internet
(November 23, 1995)

The First Public HDTV Broadcast in the United States
(July 23, 1996)

The First Continuous Live Webcasts
(January 1998)

"From Gutenberg to the Internet"
(2005)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

Google Buys YouTube
(November 6, 2006)

Towards the Open Advancement of Question Answering Systems
(April 22, 2009)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Challenges Humans at Jeopardy
(April 27, 2009)

The U.S. Converts from Analog to Digital TV Broadcasting
(June 12, 2009)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Defeats Humans at Jeopardy!
(February 14 – February 16, 2011)

Amazon Introduces the Kindle Fire
(September 28 – November 14, 2011)

Online Advertising is Expected to Surpass Print Advertising
(October 2012)

The First Use of Quantum Dots in a Mass Produced Consumer Electronics Product
(January 14, 2013)

Billboard Starts to Include YouTube Streams in its Calculation of the Most Popular Songs of the Week
(February 20, 2013)