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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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Early television model, from 1936, produced by Telefunken, Germany
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- ...that the title of Dan Castellaneta's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography I Am Not Spock?
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- ...that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
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Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the Quatermass serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in 1935. Initially failing to gain a foothold in the British film industry, he began working for BBC Television in the late 1930s (among other productions he was involved in the making of Rehearsal for a Drama, BBC 1939). The outbreak of war, however, meant that his contract was terminated; his television play The Dead Eye was stopped in the production stage. After the war, he occasionally worked for British films before he was again hired by the BBC in 1952. He soon became one of the public service broadcaster's leading directors and went on to produce and direct over 120 productions in the next 24 years, ending his television career with the play Loyalties in 1976. (Full article...)General images
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Image 2Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
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Image 3Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of television)
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Image 4Public television in France uses 819 line b&w high definition, from 1959 until 1983 (TF1). (from History of television)
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Image 5An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
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Image 6Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
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Image 7RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (from Color television)
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Image 9Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
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Image 10This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system. (from Color television)
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Image 11The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
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Image 13First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (from History of television)
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Image 14LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)
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Image 15The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
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Image 16Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
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Image 17RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
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Image 19The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (from History of television)
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Image 20Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
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Image 21A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
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Image 22Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
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Image 23DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
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Image 24Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
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Image 25LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)
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Sir Ralph Richardson (1902–1983) was an English actor who appeared on radio, film, television and stage. Described by The Guardian as "indisputably our most poetic actor", and by the director David Ayliff as "a natural actor ... [who] couldn't stop being a perfect actor", Richardson's career lasted over 50 years. He was—in the words of his biographer, Sheridan Morley—one "of the three great actor knights of the mid-twentieth century", alongside Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
After seeing a production of Hamlet starring Sir Frank Benson, Richardson decided to become an actor and made his stage debut, playing a gendarme in The Bishop's Candlesticks in December 1920. After touring and appearing in rep, he made his London debut in July 1926 as the stranger in Oedipus at Colonus. In 1930 he joined the Old Vic where he first met Gielgud, staying with the company until the following year. After service during the Second World War with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he returned to acting, preferring the works of the more modern authors Luigi Pirandello, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, George Bernard Shaw and J. B. Priestley to the classic plays of Shakespeare. A radio career ran in parallel to that on the stage, and Richardson was first broadcast in The City in 1929. (Full article...) -
Image 2Louie is an American television comedy created, written, directed by, and starring stand-up comedian Louis C.K. The series has aired for five seasons on the cable channel FX since June 29, 2010. The show centers on a fictionalized version of C.K.'s life as a comedian, father, and divorcé.
Since its debut, the series has earned widespread critical acclaim and has been nominated for a variety of different awards, including twenty-two Primetime Emmy Awards (three wins for the series), eight Television Critics Association Awards (three wins), two Golden Globe Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards (three wins), three Directors Guild of America Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Producers Guild of America Awards. (Full article...) -
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(in millions)First aired Last aired Network 1 22 September 13, 2005 (2005-09-13) May 4, 2006 (2006-05-04) The WB 165 3.81 2 22 September 28, 2006 (2006-09-28) May 17, 2007 (2007-05-17) The CW 216 3.14 3 16 October 4, 2007 (2007-10-04) May 15, 2008 (2008-05-15) 187 2.74 4 22 September 18, 2008 (2008-09-18) May 14, 2009 (2009-05-14) 161 3.14 5 22 September 10, 2009 (2009-09-10) May 13, 2010 (2010-05-13) 125 2.64 6 22 September 24, 2010 (2010-09-24) May 20, 2011 (2011-05-20) 209 2.42 7 23 September 23, 2011 (2011-09-23) May 18, 2012 (2012-05-18) 176 2.03 8 23 October 3, 2012 (2012-10-03) May 15, 2013 (2013-05-15) 152 2.52 9 23 October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08) May 20, 2014 (2014-05-20) 141 2.81 10 23 October 7, 2014 (2014-10-07) May 20, 2015 (2015-05-20) 156 2.02 11 23 October 7, 2015 (2015-10-07) May 25, 2016 (2016-05-25) 131 2.81 12 23 October 13, 2016 (2016-10-13) May 18, 2017 (2017-05-18) 132 2.62 13 23 October 12, 2017 (2017-10-12) May 17, 2018 (2018-05-17) 166 2.32 14 20 October 11, 2018 (2018-10-11) April 25, 2019 (2019-04-25) 159 2.07 15 20 October 10, 2019 (2019-10-10) November 19, 2020 (2020-11-19) 131 1.63 -
Image 4Blue Peter is a British children's television programme created by John Hunter Blair. The first programme was broadcast on 16 October 1958. It is the longest-running children's television programme in the world, and also one of the longest-running television programmes in the world.
Blue Peter currently airs weekly on Fridays in the United Kingdom on CBBC, a digital television channel. The show is produced in a magazine format, often transmitting live, and features a combination of studio presentation, interviews and outside broadcasting items. There have been forty-three official presenters of Blue Peter. (Full article...) -
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(millions)First aired Last aired 1 39 September 10, 1955 (1955-09-10) August 25, 1956 (1956-08-25) — — — 2 39 September 8, 1956 (1956-09-08) June 29, 1957 (1957-06-29) 8 32.7 12.72 3 39 September 14, 1957 (1957-09-14) June 7, 1958 (1958-06-07) 1 43.1 18.06 4 39 September 13, 1958 (1958-09-13) June 13, 1959 (1959-06-13) 1 39.6 17.40 5 39 September 5, 1959 (1959-09-05) June 11, 1960 (1960-06-11) 1 40.3 18.43 6 38 September 3, 1960 (1960-09-03) June 17, 1961 (1961-06-17) 1 37.3 17.60 7 34 September 30, 1961 (1961-09-30) May 26, 1962 (1962-05-26) 3 28.3 13.74 8 38 September 15, 1962 (1962-09-15) June 1, 1963 (1963-06-01) 10 27.0 13.58 9 36 September 28, 1963 (1963-09-28) June 6, 1964 (1964-06-06) 20 23.5 12.12 10 36 September 26, 1964 (1964-09-26) May 29, 1965 (1965-05-29) 27 22.6 11.91 11 32 September 18, 1965 (1965-09-18) May 7, 1966 (1966-05-07) 30 21.3 11.47 12 29 September 17, 1966 (1966-09-17) April 15, 1967 (1967-04-15) 34 19.9 11.33 13 25 September 11, 1967 (1967-09-11) March 4, 1968 (1968-03-04) 4 25.5 14.45 14 26 September 23, 1968 (1968-09-23) March 24, 1969 (1969-03-24) 6 24.9 14.50 15 26 September 22, 1969 (1969-09-22) March 23, 1970 (1970-03-23) 2 25.9 15.15 16 24 September 14, 1970 (1970-09-14) March 8, 1971 (1971-03-08) 5 25.5 15.32 17 24 September 13, 1971 (1971-09-13) March 13, 1972 (1972-03-13) 4 26.0 16.14 18 24 September 11, 1972 (1972-09-11) March 5, 1973 (1973-03-05) 8 23.6 15.29 19 24 September 10, 1973 (1973-09-10) April 1, 1974 (1974-04-01) 15 22.1 14.63 20 24 September 9, 1974 (1974-09-09) March 31, 1975 (1975-03-31) 26 20.7 14.04 Television films September 26, 1987 (1987-09-26) February 10, 1994 (1994-02-10) — — — -
Image 6* D indicates that the character appeared with the use of a body double replacing the credited actor.;Legend
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Image 7Rental Magica (レンタルマギカ, Rentaru Magika) is a Japanese animated television series . Its episodes are directed by Itsuro Kawasaki and produced by the Japanese animation studio ZEXCS and Victor Entertainment. ZEXCS produced the animation and Victor Entertainment was responsible for developing the music. They are based on the light novel series Rental Magica by Makoto Sando and illustrated by pako, and adapt the source material over twenty-four episodes. The plot of the episodes follows Itsuki Iba, the newly appointed president of Astral, a company that dispatches magicians to perform jobs involving supernatural phenomena, and his interactions with his employees and Astral's competitors.
The episodes aired from October 7, 2007 to March 23, 2008 on Chiba TV and TV Saitama, with the episodes later broadcast on KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, Tokyo MX TV, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Kanagawa, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co. The order that the episodes air in is nonlinear; for instance, the first episode broadcast is the sixth episode chronologically. The exceptions are episodes four, eight, and episodes sixteen through twenty, which are in the same broadcast and chronological order. (Full article...) -
Image 8The Best Fighter ESPY Award was an annual award honoring the achievements of an individual from the world of combat sports. The Best Fighter ESPY Award trophy was presented to the professional or amateur boxer or mixed martial artist adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year at the annual ESPY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2007, subsuming the Best Boxer ESPY Award until 2019, when the Best MMA Fighter ESPY Award was established, and the ESPY Awards began awarding boxers and mixed martial arts fighters separately. Balloting for the award was undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts. It was conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.
The inaugural winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award was American welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., who defeated the incumbent category title holder Oscar De La Hoya two months prior. He is one of two people to have been presented with the award more than once, winning the accolade a total of six times; Mayweather was also nominated in 2015. Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao has the second most awards won with victories in 2009 and 2011. It has been presented to one woman in its history, American bantamweight mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey in 2015. Between 2007 and 2018, boxers were most successful at the ESPY Awards with nine victories and twenty-four nominations, followed by mixed martial arts with three wins and nineteen nominations. (Full article...) -
Image 9The 40th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), "recognizes outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television production and are presented to individuals and programs broadcast from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. during the 2012 calendar year". The ceremony took place on June 16, 2013, at The Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. The ceremony was televised in the United States by HLN and executive produced by Gabriel Gornell.
The evening was hosted by Sam Champion, A. J. Hammer and Robin Meade for the first time and the pre-show ceremony was hosted by Hammer and Christi Paul. The drama pre-nominees were announced on February 27, 2013, and the nominations were announced during an episode of Good Morning America on May 1, 2013. (Full article...) -
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Season Episodes Originally released First released Last released Network 1 22 November 2, 2003 (2003-11-02) June 6, 2004 (2004-06-06) Fox 2 18 November 7, 2004 (2004-11-07) April 17, 2005 (2005-04-17) 3 13 September 19, 2005 (2005-09-19) February 10, 2006 (2006-02-10) 4 37 15 May 26, 2013 (2013-05-26) Netflix 22 May 4, 2018 (2018-05-04) 5 16 8 May 29, 2018 (2018-05-29) 8 March 15, 2019 (2019-03-15) -
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom that includes six main voice actors and numerous regular cast and recurring guest stars. The principal cast consists of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer. Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Chris Edgerly, Eric Lopez, Alex Désert, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jenny Yokobori, Kimberly D. Brooks, Dawnn Lewis, Tony Rodriguez, Melanie Minichino, Jonathan Lipow, and Grey DeLisle have appeared as supporting cast members, along with former supporting cast members Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott, Marcia Mitzman Gaven, Doris Grau, Susan Blu, Jo Ann Harris, and Christopher Collins. Repeat guest cast members include Marcia Wallace, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Joe Mantegna, Frank Welker, Kelsey Grammer and Albert Brooks. With the exception of "Old Money", episode credits list only the voice actors, and not the characters they voice.
Both Fox and the production crew wanted to keep their identities secret during the early seasons and closed most of the recording sessions while refusing to publish photos of the recording artists. The network eventually revealed which roles each actor performed in the episode "Old Money", because the producers said the voice actors should receive credit for their work. Every main cast member has won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. Shearer was the last cast member to win, receiving his award in 2014 for the episode "Four Regrettings and a Funeral." Castellaneta and Azaria have won four, while Kavner, Cartwright, Smith, Shearer, Wallace, Grammer, and guest star Jackie Mason have each won one. (Full article...) -
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American singer Katy Perry has released two video albums and has appeared in various music videos, films, television shows, and television commercials. After appearing in several music videos between 2004 and 2007, including "Goodbye for Now" and "Cupid's Chokehold", a video for "Ur So Gay" was released to introduce her to the music industry. In 2008, she released videos for "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold", both taken from her second album One of the Boys. Videos for "Thinking of You" and "Waking Up in Vegas" were released the following year.
Perry's third album Teenage Dream (2010) spawned the single "California Gurls", whose music video is set in the fictional land of "Candyfornia" and features rapper Snoop Dogg. The Yoann Lemoine-directed video "Teenage Dream" depicts her as a euphoric teenager. Her "Firework" video is based on self-empowerment, and won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. The video for "E.T." takes place in outer space, and features rapper Kanye West. Perry also released "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"—a video based on a hangover after a house party—and "The One That Got Away"—which focuses on flashbacks of days with a deceased lover. In 2012, she reissued her third album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, and also released videos for the singles "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake". The following year, Perry released her fourth studio album Prism, with "Roar" as its lead single, whose music video features her in a jungle after a plane crash. The video for her next single, "Unconditionally", is based on unconditional love. In the "Birthday" video, she impersonates five different characters to entertain at birthday parties. She became the first artist to have multiple videos, "Dark Horse" and "Roar", each gain one billion views on Vevo. Perry's fifth album Witness spawned music videos for the songs "Chained to the Rhythm", "Bon Appétit", "Swish Swish", and "Hey Hey Hey". She has 23 vevo certified videos, including for Roar, Last Friday Night, E.T., Never Really Over and Wide Awake. 2 videos have over 3 billion views and a further 3 have over a billion views. (Full article...) -
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The British actor David Niven (1910–1983) performed in many genres of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. He was also the author of four books: two works of fiction and two autobiographies. Described by Brian McFarlane, writing for the British Film Institute (BFI), as being "of famously debonair manner", Niven's career spanned from 1932 until 1983.
After brief spells as an army officer, whisky salesman and with a horse racing syndicate, he was an uncredited extra in his screen debut in There Goes the Bride; he went on to appear in nearly a hundred films, the last of which was in 1983: Curse of the Pink Panther. During his long film career, he was presented with a Golden Globe Award for his part in The Moon Is Blue (1953) and was nominated for a BAFTA for the titular lead in Carrington V.C. (1955). For his role as Major Pollock in the 1958 film Separate Tables, Niven was awarded the Academy and Golden Globe awards for a performance where "the pain behind the fake polish was moving to observe". According to Sheridan Morley, Niven's other notable works include The Charge of the Light Brigade (1938), The Way Ahead (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (1946)—judged by the BFI to be one of the top twenty British films of all time—The Guns of Navarone (1961) and the role of Sir Charles Litton in three Pink Panther films. (Full article...) -
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