At the same time radio began to achieve commercial viability in the 1920s, the United States and Britain began experimenting with "television," the wireless transmission of moving pictures. Although Britain was initially somewhat more...

Families and television are practically inseparable. Although television sets are now prominently featured in restaurants, airports, lounges, and the like, the center of television viewing remains in households and with families. The relationship...

Along with the radio, television has become the primary means for broadcast communication and entertainment. As such it calls for ethical and political assessment. What follows will thus focus on such assessments, noting a spectrum of views running...

The invention of television has exerted a profound and wide-reaching effect on the nature and quality of modern everyday life. More vivid than radio, more intimate than film, television became one of the central and most significant technologies of...

This decade marked the shift in American culture to electronic media for entertainment and news. The first radios were sold in the United States for home use in 1920. By mid-decade, a decent radio could be purchased for about $35, with higher quality...

About the same time that Guglielmo Marconi was experimenting with radio transmissions in the late 1890s, other scientists were exploring the possibility of transmitting visual images. The first inventor to do so was Abbe Caselli, an Italian-born priest...

Television brought unforgettable sounds and sights of war to the American home front. Geographically isolated from major conflicts, U.S. citizens had become accustomed to reading newspaper and hearing radio reports of distant battlefield action,...

Television and Aggression The effect of television violence on children has been studied extensively since the 1950s, and most researchers agree that what children see on television does cause behavioral changes. In 1982, the National Institute of...

For the band, see Television (band). Braun HF 1, Germany, 1959 Clivia II FER858A (VEB Rafena, Radeberg, Germany), 1956 Television (often abbreviated to TV) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and...