A Brief Review: 68 Years of NTSC for CBS
CBS’s first television broadcasts were experimental, often only for one hour a day, and reaching a limited area in and around New York City (over station W2XAB channel 2, later called WCBW and finally WCBS-TV).
The FCC began licensing commercial television stations on July 1, 1941; [on that day, they issued a license] to WCBW, (now WCBS).
On Feb 12 1946, the newly completed AT&T inter-city coaxial cable was inaugurated with an experimental broadcast of Lincoln Memorial Services from Washington DC to NBC, CBS, and DuMonts stations in New York. This date is commonly referred to as the birth date of television network broadcasting.
The term “chain broadcasting” was used, as the stations were linked together in long chains along the east coast. But as the networks expanded westward, the interconnected stations formed great networks of connected affiliate stations. By 1951, the four networks stretched coast-to-coast, carried on the new microwave radio relay network of AT&T Long Lines.
In 1987, cross-country microwave radio relays were replaced by Fixed Service Satellites. Some terrestrial radio relays remained in service for regional connections.
In 2000, satellite capacity and quality were increased with the transition to digital modulation.
On June 19, the FCC decommissioned NTSC as the terrestrial broadcast standard leaving the ATSC digital terrestrial transmission. CBS Network followed by eliminating SD satellite distribution on June 24 2009, 68 years after NTSC was first licensed to CBS.
Courtesy Charles Kerman CBS Affiliate Systems
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I am trying to contact TV stations in the Charlotte, NC area to see if I could request a copy of their recordings of Barack Obama’s rally at UNC on November 3. Do you think it would cost a lot?
http://charlotte.citysearch.com/yellowpages/directory/Charlotte_NC/160/338/page1.html
There are stations…Contact them and ask what the cost would be. I have no idea what the "usual charge" would be.
How do tv stations know how many people are watching a certain broadcast?
They count the Xs.
That’s truly the historic moment for TV broadcasting in the U.S., when FCC requests most TV stations to postpone their transitions to Digital Television until June 12, there have been about 500 TV stations across the country turned off their analog broadcast signals exactly at 11:59:59 pm on February 17, 2009. KICU-TV 36 is one of the early switchoff stations, this video is few minutes before and after the analog signals were shut down, you can see a few seconds of black screen, then playing the recorded program from National Association of Broadcasters, which is telling you that your TV isn’t ready for Digital Television Transition, and a short tutorial about Digital Television. In San Francisco Bay Area, that recorded program is on air around the clock on KICU-TV 36 and KOFY-TV 20 if you receive analog signals on your TV.
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Most of us would agree that the end result of the proliferation of TV stations is the lowering of programme standards. Ad nauseam repeats, excessive advertising, and all-round trashiness, all in the name of almighty "choice".
But is selecting Trash Channel A any better than selecting Trash Channel B or does it amount to a travesty of choice?
RoVale: One company owns over 1500 TV and radio stations in the US? That’s absolutely scandalous.
The number of channels you now see is just the beginning.
Soon the internet & TV will be meshed into one & we’ll have an infinite number of channels from which to watch a big pile of horsecrap.
Read books. TV sucks.
What sort of programs do the TV stations import from overseas? What do they make themselves?
Most of our tv shows are made in australia…but on cable paid tv, probably the majority are from America or Britain…though quite a few still come from here…
on free-to-air tv…most are australian made…however our channel 10…does do a lot of American shows as well….while our ABC shows a lot of British ones as well…
I am trying to contact some of the major TV Stations like CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, etc… Can someone please direct me? I have a few proposals for a reality tv show.
Thanks
You don’t contact the channels. You contact show creators. Read this for more information-
When a company commits to bringing your TV project to market, they will propose an option agreement that gives them the exclusive right to sell your show to a network for a limited period of time. Having a script, book or personal life story-rights gives production companies more leverage and substance during the development and sales process, and as a result they are typically willing to pay more up front when optioning these types of properties. Even a treatment written as a series outline or movie will bring more to the table because it is usually regarded as being more substantial than a reality-based "idea" that can be interpreted in very loose forms. The good balancing factor is that more people from outside the TV industry break into the business from selling a concept for a show rather than an actual property. More money in scripted, but more sales in original concepts.
http://www.tvwritersvault.com/writerres/StandardDeals.asp
Michael Laskow, CEO of A&R company TAXI shares his knowledge about what it takes to be successful as a musician in today’s world.
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WNBC-4 New York – Station IDs – 1964
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Like what TV stations do when clocks fall back one hour and go forward one hour? How does it affect their schedule and programming?
We add or drop an extra hour of programming. For the fall time change, the log is made up for a 25 hour day. The spring time change is a 23 hour day. It’s as simple as that.