TV Broadcast History

& Characteristics of
Broadcast Media
1 TV Broadcast History

2 Characteristics of Broadcast Media

TV Broadcast History
Paul Nipko
•a German inventor and
electrical inventor.

•In 1884,he invented a

crude projector called
the “Nipkow Disk”.
•It consisted of a metal disk that had multiple
holes in it. Each hole contained a small slice of
an image, and as the disk spun around it light
was shone through the disk, creating a image
on a screen that appeared flowing line by line.
Philo T. Farnsworth
•is known as the “Father of
Television”
•Invented a special type of
electron tube for use as a
camera tube or imaging tube
in television systems. This
tube, for which he filed a
patent in 1927 was called the
“Image Dissector”.
How an image Dissector
works?
The image dissector “sees” the outside
world through a glass lens, which
focused an image through the clear
glass wall of the tube onto a special
plate, which was coated with a layer of
cesium oxide. When light strikes cesium
oxide, it emits electrons so you could
think of the special plate like a mirror
that “reflects” an image, made of
electrons, rather than light.
•This invisible electron “reflection” was aimed at
a small detector circuit, which captured the
electrons so that they could be amplified and
transmitted to a television receiver.
 Farnsworth’ s Image
Dissector

Sketch of an “Image
Dissector”
1930
•Began the age of TV
broadcasting to the public.

•An American theater, film

and radio critic that hired
by CBS as a consultant to
its television programming
Gilbert Seldes development project.
1939
• New York World’s Fair,
with line coverage
of the Fair’s opening
ceremonies featuring a
speech by President
Roosevelt.
After WWII
• When the war ended,
the popularity of the
TV began to gain
traction. Tv networks
began broadcasting
simultaneously to
different regions.
 The TV networks offered to
transmit programs by cable
to paying subscribers-cable-
1960s
television

The rise in television

station, and its growing 1980
reach to American homes.
Characteristics of Broadcast
Media
 3 ELEMENTS OF RADIO

1 Voice

2 Sound

3 Music
References:
http://www.televisionexperimenters.com/farns
wrh.html

https://ethw.org/Farnsworth%27s_Image_Dis
sector

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/11/th
e-1939-new-york-worlds-fair/100620/
Thank you