HeyJaredPhilo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV
Over 100 weeks, we're going to countdown to the Centennial of Video on Sept 7, 2027 by recounting the 100 Top Moments in the First 100 Years of Television.
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E59: Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Message | Countdown #49 (opens the original)
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In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and gave the television age a way to understand itself. McLuhan argued that television was far more than a machine for delivering programs. It was changing the way people thought, experienced time and space, and related to one another. His famous phrase — “the medium is the message” — suggested that the technology itself could be more consequential than the content it carried. He also predicted the emergence of a “glo
E58: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! The Night Beatlemania Came To America | Countdown to the Centennial #50 (opens the original)
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On February 9, 1964, more than 70 million Americans tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show to see four young musicians from Liverpool who had already conquered Britain but were only beginning to make their mark in America. The Beatles arrived at exactly the right moment. Just months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a generation raised in front of television was ready for something joyful—and John, Paul, George and Ringo delivered it with ringing guitars, sparkling harmonies, floppy haircuts
E57: Play It Again: The Day Television Learned to Rewind Time | 100 Years of TV #51 (opens the original)
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On December 7, 1963, the Army and Navy football teams met in Philadelphia for a game already heavy with national emotion. Postponed after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the contest became one of the first major public events in a country trying to regain its footing. Then CBS director Tony Verna tried something television had never successfully incorporated into a live sports broadcast. Using a second Ampex videotape recorder, Verna replayed a Navy touchdown moments after it hap
E56: Christopher Nolan Made the Wrong Damn Movie | 99th Anniversary Edition (opens the original)
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On September 7, 1927, in a San Francisco loft, Philo T. Farnsworth transmitted the first electronic television image—and set in motion the screen-based world we now take completely for granted. Ninety-nine years later, we carry screens in our pockets, work on them, communicate through them, watch them, and fill our lives with them. But the pivotal breakthrough that made this culture possible has largely been lost to history. In this special 99th-anniversary bonus episode of 100 Years of Televisi
E55: We Interrupt This Program for a Special Bulletin: Countdown #52 (opens the original)
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On Friday afternoon, November 22, 1963, millions of Americans were following the everyday lives of the Hughes family in the fictional town of Oakdale when a simple black title card appeared on their television screens: CBS News Bulletin. What followed was four days of continuous television unlike anything the world had ever experienced. Walter Cronkite's calm professionalism, the live murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the funeral of President John F. Kennedy transformed television from a source o
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