Post Tagged with: "television"

Profile America: First TV Commercial

Profile America: First TV Commercial

“America runs on Bulova time” was the entire audio portion of the first advertisement on a commercial TV station.

by · July 23, 2018 · Profile America, Television
Profile America: Telstar

Profile America: Telstar

Tuesday, July 11 — The distant reaches of planet Earth came into electronic proximity for the average American on this date in 1962. The occasion was the successful relay of a transatlantic TV signal by Telstar, the first privately owned […]

Profile America: First TV Ad

Profile America: First TV Ad

  “America runs on Bulova time.” That declaration was the entire audio portion of the first advertisement appearing on a commercial television station. The rather subdued ad was broadcast on New York station WBNT this month in 1941, the first […]

Profile America: TV Tech

Profile America: TV Tech

Tuesday, December 13 — The important holiday business of viewing such classics as “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Story” on home TVs owes much to a technological advance this month 78 years ago. In December 1938, Russian-American engineer Vladimir […]

by · December 13, 2016 · Profile America
Learn. Create. Produce Community Television.

Learn. Create. Produce Community Television.

There’s still time to sign up for community television production training with Bronxnet TV, July 18 to September 10, 2016.

Profile America: First Home Television Sets

Profile America: First Home Television Sets

FIRST HOME TV “SETS” Profile America — Couch potatoes can trace their roots to this date in 1928 when three experimental television sets were installed in private homes in Schenectady, New York. Not that there was much to see, the […]