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Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set, rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers.
Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries.
In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of earlier cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such as LCDs (both fluorescent-backlit and LED), OLED displays, and plasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, Digital Light Processing (DLP), plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. LEDs are being gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have started increasingly producing smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s. (Full article...)
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High-definition television (HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with greater resolution than traditional television systems (NTSC, SECAM, PAL). HDTV is digitally broadcast, because digital television (DTV) requires less bandwidth if sufficient video compression is used. HDTV technology was introduced in the United States in the 1990s by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, a group of television companies.
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- ... that Amrita Shah found that the introduction of television to India led to more women aspiring to become independent?
- ... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
- ... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
- ... that actor Jonathan Roumie, who plays the character of Jesus Christ in American television series The Chosen, is also an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church?
- ... that in the television series sequel Imortal (2010), Angel Locsin portrayed the lead role as the daughter of her lycan character in the Lobo TV series?
- ... that Montana television station KOPR-TV brought forward its start date by several months, only to last just one year?
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- ...that the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses this TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology, cognition and Pavlovian conditioning?
- ...that the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode Blind Ambition was originally created for the episode Cleveland Loretta Quagmire?
- ...that the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?
- ...that Robert Raymond founded Australia's longest running current affairs television program?
- ...that like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
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Daniel Louis Castellaneta (/ˌkæstələˈnɛtə/ KAST-ə-lə-NET-ə; born October 29, 1957) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons (as well as other characters on the show such as Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Barney Gumble, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Mr. Teeny, Santa's Little Helper, and Itchy). Castellaneta is also known for voicing Grandpa in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!, and has had voice roles in several other programs, including Futurama, Sibs, Darkwing Duck, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, The Batman, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim, and Taz-Mania.
In 1999, he appeared in the Christmas special Olive, the Other Reindeer and won an Annie Award for his portrayal of the Postman. Castellaneta released a comedy album I Am Not Homer, and wrote and starred in a one-person show titled Where Did Vincent van Gogh? (Full article...)General images
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The award has been presented annually since 1952, with exceptions being 1976, 2008, 2022, and 2024. The second incident was due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike's cancellation of that year's ceremony. The award that year was meant to honor director Steven Spielberg, but due to the cancellation of the ceremony, the award was presented to him the following year. The third occurrence resulted from various media companies, actors, and other creatives boycotting the awards in protest over its lack of action to increase the membership diversity of the HFPA. In 2024, the award was shelved to make way for additional categories at that year's ceremony. (Full article...)
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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60 | 1 | "Kamp Krusty" | Mark Kirkland | David M. Stern | September 24, 1992 | 8F24 | 21.8 |
61 | 2 | "A Streetcar Named Marge" | Rich Moore | Jeff Martin | October 1, 1992 | 8F18 | 18.3 |
62 | 3 | "Homer the Heretic" | Jim Reardon | George Meyer | October 8, 1992 | 9F01 | 19.3 |
63 | 4 | "Lisa the Beauty Queen" | Mark Kirkland | Jeff Martin | October 15, 1992 | 9F02 | 19.0 |
64 | 5 | "Treehouse of Horror III" | Carlos Baeza | Al Jean & Mike Reiss | October 29, 1992 | 9F04 | 25.1 |
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65 | 6 | "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" | Rich Moore | John Swartzwelder | November 3, 1992 | 9F03 | 20.1 |
66 | 7 | "Marge Gets a Job" | Jeffrey Lynch | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | November 5, 1992 | 9F05 | 22.9 |
67 | 8 | "New Kid on the Block" | Wes Archer | Conan O'Brien | November 12, 1992 | 9F06 | 23.1 |
68 | 9 | "Mr. Plow" | Jim Reardon | Jon Vitti | November 19, 1992 | 9F07 | 24.0 |
69 | 10 | "Lisa's First Word" | Mark Kirkland | Jeff Martin | December 3, 1992 | 9F08 | 28.6 |
70 | 11 | "Homer's Triple Bypass" | David Silverman | Gary Apple & Michael Carrington | December 17, 1992 | 9F09 | 23.6 |
71 | 12 | "Marge vs. the Monorail" | Rich Moore | Conan O'Brien | January 14, 1993 | 9F10 | 23.0 |
72 | 13 | "Selma's Choice" | Carlos Baeza | David M. Stern | January 21, 1993 | 9F11 | 24.5 |
73 | 14 | "Brother from the Same Planet" | Jeffrey Lynch | Jon Vitti | February 4, 1993 | 9F12 | 23.8 |
74 | 15 | "I Love Lisa" | Wes Archer | Frank Mula | February 11, 1993 | 9F13 | 25.2 |
75 | 16 | "Duffless" | Jim Reardon | David M. Stern | February 18, 1993 | 9F14 | 25.7 |
76 | 17 | "Last Exit to Springfield" | Mark Kirkland | Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky | March 11, 1993 | 9F15 | 22.4 |
77 | 18 | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" | Carlos Baeza | Jon Vitti | April 1, 1993 | 9F17 | 25.5 |
78 | 19 | "The Front" | Rich Moore | Adam I. Lapidus | April 15, 1993 | 9F16 | 20.1 |
79 | 20 | "Whacking Day" | Jeffrey Lynch | John Swartzwelder | April 29, 1993 | 9F18 | 20.0 |
80 | 21 | "Marge in Chains" | Jim Reardon | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | May 6, 1993 | 9F20 | 17.3 |
81 | 22 | "Krusty Gets Kancelled" | David Silverman | John Swartzwelder | May 13, 1993 | 9F19 | 19.4 |
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History of television: Early television stations • Geographical usage of television • Golden Age of Television • List of experimental television stations • List of years in television • Mechanical television • Social aspects of television • Television systems before 1940 • Timeline of the introduction of television in countries • Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries
Inventors and pioneers: John Logie Baird • Alan Blumlein • Walter Bruch • Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton • Allen B. DuMont • Philo Taylor Farnsworth • Charles Francis Jenkins • Boris Grabovsky • Paul Gottlieb Nipkow • Constantin Perskyi • Boris Rosing • David Sarnoff • Kálmán Tihanyi • Vladimir Zworykin
Technology: Comparison of display technology • Digital television • Liquid crystal display television • Large-screen television technology • Technology of television
Terms: Broadcast television systems • Composite monitor • HDTV • Liquid crystal display television • PAL • Picture-in-picture • Pay-per-view • Plasma display • NICAM • NTSC • SECAM
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