World Television Day: History and Key Facts
In December 1996 the United Nations proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day commemorating the date on which the first World Television Forum was held in 1996.
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Video: History and Key Facts
Video is an electronic medium used for the recording, copying, playback, transmission, and display of moving visual images and pictures, with or without accompanying audio.
Television studies: History and Key Facts
Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television.
Television in the Philippines: History and Key Facts
Television was first introduced to the Philippines in October 1953, with the first commercial broadcast by Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN).
Quality television: History and Key Facts
Quality television (also quality TV or quality artistic television) is a term used by television scholars, television critics, and broadcasting advocacy groups to describe a genre or style of tel
Pirate television: History and Key Facts
A pirate television station is a broadcast television station that operates without a valid broadcast license.
Offline editing: History and Key Facts
Offline editing is the creative storytelling stage of filmmaking and television production where the structure, mood, pacing and story of the final show are defined.
Live television: History and Key Facts
Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.
Image dissector: History and Key Facts
An image dissector, also called a dissector tube, is a video camera tube in which photocathode emissions create an electron image which is then swept up, down and across an anode to produce an el
Gambia Film Unit: History and Key Facts
Gambia Film Unit was an agency of the Gambian government that produced short films and showed them in remote parts of The Gambia.
First interracial kiss on television: History and Key Facts
The date and program of the first interracial kiss on television is a much-debated topic.
List of experimental television stations: History and Key Facts
This page is a list of the experimental television stations before 1946.
Channel surfing: History and Key Facts
Channel surfing (also known as channel hopping or zapping) is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies to find something interesting to watch or
Broadcast flag: History and Key Facts
A broadcast flag is a bit field sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not the data stream can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded
Blackout (broadcasting): History and Key Facts
In broadcasting, the term blackout refers to the non-airing of television or radio programming in a certain media market.
Adbusters: History and Key Facts
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Television pilot: History and Key Facts
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States television, is a standalone episode of a televisi
Public broadcasting: History and Key Facts
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) is radio, television, and other electronic media whose primary mission is public service with a commitment to avoiding political and commercia
Cable television: History and Key Facts
Cable television is a system for delivering broadcast programming to viewers by radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cable and through fibre-optic cable.
Television in the United States: History and Key Facts
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States.
Television in the United Kingdom: History and Key Facts
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later.
History of television: History and Key Facts
The history of television begins with the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.