Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming, or television transmission. The etymology of the word has a mixed Latin and Greek origin, meaning "far sight": Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin visio, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view in the first person). Commercially available since the late 1920s, the television set has become commonplace in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as a vehicle for advertising, a source of entertainment, and news. Since the 1970s the availability of video cassettes, laserdiscs, DVDs and now Blu-ray Discs, have resulted in the television set frequently being used for viewing recorded as well as broadcast material. In recent years Internet television has seen the rise of television available via the Internet, e.g....

Awards in this discipline: Kristallen for Best Female Host  Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay  PEN USA Literary Award for a Teleplay  SFX Award for Best TV Show  SFX Award for Best TV Episode
Appears in ranked lists: 101 Gadgets That Changed The World - 3;
Works Written About This Topic: Sunnydale High Yearbook  Citadel of Dreams  Private Parts  Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News  Sex and the City  Time and Relative  Nightdreamers  New Worlds, New Civilizations  30 Years of Emmerdale  Sliders
Broadcasts: CHAT-TV  WABC-TV  WHDH  WJBK  WDIV-TV  WNYW  WAGA  WXYZ-TV  WSVN  WTVS
Content: FOXCAST: So You Think You Can Dance  FOXCAST: The Simpsons  American Experience | PBS  Battlestar Galactica  High School Musical 2  The Official LOST Podcast  Greys Anatomy Official podcast  Comedy Central: What's New ( Video )  FOXCAST: Family Guy  Tim Goodman's TV Talk Machine
Organizations in this industry: filmpool  RTC  RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd.  Darty  Fox Entertainment Group  Rysher Entertainment  West Channel  E1 Entertainment  Pett Productions  2929 Entertainment
Software In Genre: Miro  Overcast Media  EyeTV  Google TV
Students majoring in this field: Arch Brown - Northwestern University - Bachelor of Science - Theatre; Patrick Farrell - University of Miami - 1981 - Bachelor of Arts - Film production; Sam Haskell - University of Mississippi - 1977 - Theatre/Radio; Marc Webb - S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications - Film/Radio; Gustavo Ferrada - S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications - Master of Arts - Film/Radio; Spike Lee - Tisch School of the Arts - MFA - Film; Rana Ranbir - Master's degree - Theatre; Simon Pegg - University of Bristol - 1991 - Bachelor of Arts - Drama/Film/Theatre;
Speeches or presentations on this topic: Newton N. Minow - Wasteland Speech;
Films distributed in this medium: Babylon 5: The Gathering - Baton Broadcasting Incorporated - 1993 - Canada; Babylon 5: The Gathering - Turner Network Television - 1998 - United States of America; Babylon 5: The Gathering - Prime Time Entertainment Network - 1993 - United States of America; Babylon 5: The Gathering - Warner Bros. Pictures - 1993 - United States of America; Inside Deep Throat - Canvas - 2007 - Belgium; Love Among the Ruins; Woman in Witness Protection - Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting - 2007 - Japan; A Quiet Life - Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting - 2007 - Japan; The Chamberland Sisters - Lifetime Television - 2011; Beauty & the Briefcase - ABC Family - Apr 18, 2010;
Films On This Subject: Broadcast News  Good Night, and Good Luck.  A Face in the Crowd  Shocker  Poltergeist  Scary Movie 3  Galaxy Quest  The Ring  Tootsie  Wayne's World
Websites of this genre: bbc.co.uk  Internet Movie Database  The WB Television Network  The TV IV  British Comedy Guide  Filmfront  Korean Movie Database  Filmweb  Alt.tv.simpsons  FindAnyFilm.com
Inventor: Philo Farnsworth
Titles: Fawlty Towers  Night Gallery  Lizzie McGuire  The Hitchhiker  The Amanda Show  Crank Yankers  Dead Like Me  Topper  The Game  Oh, Brother!
Quotations About This Subject: There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.; The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.; So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.; Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.; Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.  So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.; TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.  The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.; There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.; Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.;
Organizations in this sector: Vermont Community Access Media  ABERT  AHDS Performing Arts  ATVSI  Academy of Television Arts and Sciences  Action for Children's Television  Alabama Broadcasters Association  Association of Independent Creative Editors  Association of Moving Image Archivists  BBC Motion Gallery
Accommodation with this feature: Sheraton Keauhou
Artworks: Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
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