13 Facts About Television

Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.

Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers.

Television published an article on "Motion Pictures by Wireless" in 1913; transmitted moving silhouette images for witnesses in December 1923; and on 13 June 1925 publicly demonstrated synchronized transmission of silhouette pictures.

Television was granted U S Patent No 1, 544, 156 on 30 June 1925 (filed 13 March 1922).

Television managed to display simple geometric shapes onto the screen.

Television's solution was a camera tube that accumulated and stored electrical charges within the tube throughout each scanning cycle.

Television demonstrated the same system using monochrome signals to produce a 3D image.

Television genres include a broad range of programming types that entertain, inform, and educate viewers.

Television's broad reach makes it a powerful and attractive medium for advertisers.

Television advertisements is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization, which conveys a message, typically to market a product or service.

Television has played a pivotal role in the socialization of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The article "The Good Things about Television" argues that television can be a very powerful and effective learning tool for children if used wisely.