Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was originally developed in the 1940s in remote or mountainous areas, including Arkansas
Interesting facts and chronology of radio
Heinrich Hertz, professor of physics at the Technical University in Karlsruhe, discovered electromagnetic waves propagating at the speed of light in 1887
The first satellite television
On July 12, 1962, the Telstar 1 satellite transmitted images from the Andover earth station in Maine to the Pleumeur-Bodou telecommunications center in Brittany, France.
Color Technology
Television broadcasting began as early as 1928, when the Federal Radio Commission authorized inventor Charles Jenkins to broadcast from W3XK
Early development of technology
No one person in the colorful history of radio can be credited with inventing radio. Almost all radio “inventors” improved on someone else’s idea.
When did the first TV show take place?
The first television transmission was made by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier in Paris in 1909. It was, however, a one-line broadcast.
Mechanical TV system
The first device that could be called a “television system” according to these definitions was created by John Logie Baird.