In year 1926, J.L. Baird first displayed television which had only 30 lines and gave coarse image. Currently the digital signal of the television sends pictures with 1080 lines.
The average American youth spends 1,023 hours each year watching TV and 900 hours in school.
The first ever TV advert in history lasted twenty seconds and was for a clock manufactured by a corporation called Bulova. This company also manufactured the 1st timepiece that went into space. The commercial was seen in July 1941 and went out during a game being played by the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Sony began selling VCRs in 1970 that was capable of recording the television shows. However, Sony was sued by the film studios for copyright piracy. Later on, the Supreme Court backed Sony.
A 103-inch plasma TV from Panasonic is the largest plasma TV currently available in the market, costing approximately around $70,000 .
The famous revolving globe that is utilized by the NBC news series spent many years turning in the wrong direction. In 1984 this was eventually found and on January 2nd this was put right and now the globe is turning correctly.
The most viewed TV broadcasts are generally international events such as the Olympic Games and Football World Cup.
The largest number of adverts featuring a companies president were made for Wendy's Hamburger restaurants in the United States and featured Dave Thomas the corporation creator. In all he has starred in 652 adverts with the shortest being five seconds and the longest being sixty seconds. These commercials have won thirty six major advertising awards and have made Dave as well known as his Food.
The 1950s decade of television was known as the “Golden Age of Television”
Whilst viewing an episode of the hit Japanese kids show Pokemon over seven hundred Japanese children were rushed to hospital with severe convulsions and trauma. This was caused by a ten second scene in which the shows star Pikachu flashed his big red eyes to the sound of a huge booming explosion.
40% of Americans always or often watch television while eating dinner.
Man's largest television set was unveiled in the Japanese city of Tsukuba and measured 24.3m by 45.7m [ 80ft by 150ft ]. It was used in the 1985 Japanese International Exposition and displayed a series of specially created films containing varied artistic and cultural creations.
First remote control TV lunched in 1980’s.
