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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 Angeline Quinto became the first Filipino singer to release a soundtrack album for a television series that featured a single artist?
- ... that the exclusive secret society Hamilton House from the television show Gossip Girl was based on St. Anthony Hall, a social and literary fraternity?
- ... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life?
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. |
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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 Dyesebel, a popular mermaid character in Filipino comic books, cinema and television, was based on Philippine folklore?
- ...that the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, to insure equality for families who couldn't afford color-tv?
- ...that the television series ER aired an episode based on the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse?
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Kylie Ann Minogue AO OBE (/mɪˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer and actress. She is the highest-selling female recording artist from Australia, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinventing herself in music as well as fashion, and is referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop" and a style icon. Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards. In 2024, Time named her one of the most influential people in the world.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition starring as Charlene Robinson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1986–1988). She began her music career in the late 1980s, releasing four bubblegum and dance-pop-influenced studio albums under PWL. By the early 1990s, Minogue had amassed several top ten singles in Australia and the UK, including "The Loco-Motion", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Especially for You", "Hand on Your Heart" and "Better the Devil You Know". Taking more creative control over her music, she signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released the albums Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997). (Full article...)General images
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Image 1Public television in France uses 819 line b&w high definition, from 1959 until 1983 (TF1). (from History of television)
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Image 2Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
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Image 3RCA 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 4Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
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Image 5This 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 7Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
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Image 8A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
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Image 9An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
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Image 10Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of 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 12The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (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 15Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
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Image 16Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
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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 18LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)
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Image 21Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
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Image 22The 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 23LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)
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Image 24Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
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Image 25DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
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Scarlett Johansson is an American actress who has appeared in films, television series, video games and stage plays. Johansson made her debut in the 1994 comedy-drama North. Her first lead role was as the 11-year-old sister of a pregnant teenager in Manny & Lo (1996), for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Johansson starred in Robert Redford's drama The Horse Whisperer (1998), and appeared with Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi in the black comedy Ghost World (2001). Two years later, Johansson played a woman in her 20s stuck in a listless marriage who befriends an aging American actor (Bill Murray) in Japan in the Sofia Coppola-directed Lost in Translation, and also played a servant in Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's household in Girl with a Pearl Earring with Colin Firth. She was nominated at the 61st Golden Globe Awards for both films, and received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the former.
Two years later, Johansson starred in Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point, for which she garnered a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. In 2006, she appeared in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller The Prestige, and played a journalism student in Allen's Scoop. In the same year, Johansson made her first appearance as host of the television variety show Saturday Night Live, which she has since hosted a further five times as of 2019. Two years later, Johansson starred in Allen's romantic comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, and portrayed Queen of England Anne Boleyn's sister Mary in the historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) with Natalie Portman and Eric Bana. She received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut performance in the 2010 revival of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. (Full article...) -
Image 2Tsukihime, Lunar Legend (真月譚 月姫, Shingetsutan Tsukihime) is an anime television series. The episodes are directed by Katsushi Sakurabi, animated by J.C.Staff, and produced by the Tsukihime Production Committee, which included Geneon Entertainment, Movic, Tokyo Broadcasting System, and J.C.Staff. The English adaptation of the episodes has been licensed by Geneon Entertainment. The episodes are based on the visual novel Tsukihime by Type-Moon and adapt the source material over twelve episodes. The plot of the episodes follows Shiki Tohno after he moves into his sister's house, and his interactions with the vampire Arcueid Brunestud.
The episodes aired in Japan from October 10, 2003 to December 26, 2003 on BS-i. The episodes received their international premiere on the anime television network Animax, who have also later broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and its other networks in East Asia, South America and other regions under the title Lunar Legend Tsukihime. (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 4The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment". The HFPA board of directors selects the honorees from a variety of actors, directors, writers and producers who have made a significant mark in the film industry. It was first presented at the 9th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in February 1952 and is named in honor of its first recipient, director Cecil B. DeMille. The HFPA chose DeMille due to his prestige in the industry and his "internationally recognized and respected name". DeMille received the award the year his penultimate film, The Greatest Show on Earth, premiered. A year later in 1953, the award was presented to producer Walt Disney.
The award has been presented annually since 1952, with exceptions being 1976, 2008, 2022, and 2024. The second incident was due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike's cancellation of that year's ceremony. The award that year was meant to honor director Steven Spielberg, but due to the cancellation of the ceremony, the award was presented to him the following year. The third occurrence resulted from various media companies, actors, and other creatives boycotting the awards in protest over its lack of action to increase the membership diversity of the HFPA. In 2024, the award was shelved to make way for additional categories at that year's ceremony. (Full article...) -
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Numbers is an American television series produced by brothers Ridley and Tony Scott. It premiered on CBS on Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 10:00 pm with its pilot episode then moved to its Friday slot five days later. It remained in that slot for the rest of its run. The series is set in Los Angeles, California, and follows the stories of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team and a mathematics professor, focusing on relationships between FBI Special Agent in Charge Don Eppes (Rob Morrow), his brother Professor Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) and their father, Alan Eppes (Judd Hirsch), and on the brothers' efforts to fight crime. A typical episode begins with a crime, which is subsequently investigated by Don's team and mathematically described by Charlie. The insights provided by Charlie's mathematics are almost always crucial to solving the crime.
In total, six complete seasons consisting of 118 episodes were broadcast. The first season, a mid-season replacement for Dr. Vegas, was the shortest of the six, and spanned 13 episodes from January to May 2005. Seasons two and three aired from September to May of the 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 seasons respectively, but season four was cut short by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Twelve episodes were originally produced and aired from September 2007 to January 2008. Six more episodes were aired in April and May 2008 after the strike ended. Season 5 began airing on October 3, 2008 and continued through to May 2009. Season six began in late September 2009 and concluded in March 2010. (Full article...) -
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Naruto is an anime television series based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. The series centers on the adventures of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village, searching for recognitions and wishing to become the ninja by the rest of the village to be the leader and the strongest of all. The series was directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Pierrot and TV Tokyo. The episodes are based on the first twenty-seven volumes in Part I of the manga, while some episodes feature original, self-contained storylines.
The 220 episodes that constitute the series were aired between October 3, 2002, and February 8, 2007, on TV Tokyo in Japan. The English version of the series was released in North America by Viz Media, and began airing on September 10, 2005, on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block in the United States. On September 20, 2008, Cartoon Network ended its Toonami block, but the channel continued sporadically airing episodes of Naruto in the time slots originally occupied by Toonami's programming until January 31, 2009 when episode 209, the last episode to air in the US was shown, due to the closure of Toonami Jetstream. (Full article...) -
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In addition to the show's regular cast of voice actors, celebrity guest stars have been a staple of The Simpsons, an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company, since its first season. The Simpsons focuses on the eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The family was initially conceived by Groening for a series of animated shorts, which originally aired as a part of The Tracey Ullman Show between 1987 and 1989. The shorts were developed into a half-hour prime time series which began in December 1989. The series' 35th season ended on May 19, 2024, and 768 episodes of The Simpsons have aired. A feature film adaptation of the series called The Simpsons Movie, was released in 2007. (Full article...) -
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Bradley Cooper is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career by appearing in an episode of the sitcom Sex and the City (1999) and as the host of the tourism show Globe Trekker the following year. He made his screen debut in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) as a gay counselor—a role he later reprised in the web television series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015). In the action television series Alias (2001–2006), Cooper achieved some success for the supporting role of Will Tippin, although he only played a major role in the series for the first few seasons.
Cooper's supporting part in the commercially successful comedy Wedding Crashers (2005) improved his career prospects, but also led to him being typecast as the best friend to the main character in such comedies as Failure to Launch (2006), The Rocker (2008), and He's Just Not That Into You (2009). During this period, Cooper also continued starring in television shows, such as the 2005 sitcom Kitchen Confidential, and played a dual role in a 2006 onstage production of Three Days of Rain. However, the former was cancelled after four episodes due to low ratings. His breakthrough came with the role of a reckless teacher in Todd Phillips' comedy The Hangover (2009), which became one of the highest grossing R-rated films of all time. Cooper continued to take on parts in several box office hits, including The A-Team (2010), Limitless, and The Hangover Part II (both in 2011). (Full article...)Image 11Psych is an American comedy-drama television series which was broadcast from 2006 until 2014. Created by Steve Franks, the series aired on USA Network for eight seasons with a total of one-hundred and twenty one episodes. Psych stars James Roday, Dulé Hill, Maggie Lawson, Timothy Omundson, Kirsten Nelson, and Corbin Bernsen, with Roday and Hill earning award nominations for their respective roles.
Psych received awards from: the Independent Investigations Group, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the People's Choice Awards and the Imagen Foundation. The series also received nominations for several other awards, including four ALMA Awards, two Creative Arts Emmy Awards, eight Image Awards, one People's Choice Award, and one Satellite Award. In total, Psych received thirty-one award nominations in its eight-year tenure. The show has been recognized in terms of awards for its first episode, "Pilot"; its musical team; the series itself; and actor James Roday. Roday and Hill also lead in nominations, with nine. (Full article...)News
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(millions)179 1 "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Jim Reardon Ian Maxtone-Graham September 21, 1997 (1997-09-21) 4F22 17.44 180 2 "The Principal and the Pauper" Steven Dean Moore Ken Keeler September 28, 1997 (1997-09-28) 4F23 14.86 181 3 "Lisa's Sax" Dominic Polcino Al Jean October 19, 1997 (1997-10-19) 3F26 3G02 12.85 182 4 "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Mark Kirkland Mike Scully October 26, 1997 (1997-10-26) 5F02 19.03 David X. Cohen Ned Goldreyer 183 5 "The Cartridge Family" Pete Michels John Swartzwelder November 2, 1997 (1997-11-02) 5F01 18.03 184 6 "Bart Star" Dominic Polcino Donick Cary November 9, 1997 (1997-11-09) 5F03 17.91 185 7 "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" Steven Dean Moore Richard Appel November 16, 1997 (1997-11-16) 5F04 19.80 186 8 "Lisa the Skeptic" Neil Affleck David X. Cohen November 23, 1997 (1997-11-23) 5F05 16.01 187 9 "Realty Bites" Swinton O. Scott III Dan Greaney December 7, 1997 (1997-12-07) 5F06 17.73 188 10 "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" Bob Anderson Ron Hauge December 21, 1997 (1997-12-21) 5F07 16.17 189 11 "All Singing, All Dancing" Mark Ervin Steve O'Donnell January 4, 1998 (1998-01-04) 5F24 15.90 190 12 "Bart Carny" Mark Kirkland John Swartzwelder January 11, 1998 (1998-01-11) 5F08 19.21 191 13 "The Joy of Sect" Steven Dean Moore Steve O'Donnell February 8, 1998 (1998-02-08) 5F23 16.20 192 14 "Das Bus" Pete Michels David X. Cohen February 15, 1998 (1998-02-15) 5F11 15.98 193 15 "The Last Temptation of Krust" Mike B. Anderson Donick Cary February 22, 1998 (1998-02-22) 5F10 16.50 194 16 "Dumbbell Indemnity" Dominic Polcino Ron Hauge March 1, 1998 (1998-03-01) 5F12 17.35 195 17 "Lisa the Simpson" Susie Dietter Ned Goldreyer March 8, 1998 (1998-03-08) 4F24 17.79 196 18 "This Little Wiggy" Neil Affleck Dan Greaney March 22, 1998 (1998-03-22) 5F13 14.96 197 19 "Simpson Tide" Mike B. Anderson Joshua Sternin & Jennifer Ventimilia March 29, 1998 (1998-03-29) 3G04 14.77 198 20 "The Trouble with Trillions" Swinton O. Scott III Ian Maxtone-Graham April 5, 1998 (1998-04-05) 5F14 11.39 199 21 "Girly Edition" Mark Kirkland Larry Doyle April 19, 1998 (1998-04-19) 5F15 13.46 200 22 "Trash of the Titans" Jim Reardon Ian Maxtone-Graham April 26, 1998 (1998-04-26) 5F09 17.35 201 23 "King of the Hill" Steven Dean Moore John Swartzwelder May 3, 1998 (1998-05-03) 5F16 14.80 202 24 "Lost Our Lisa" Pete Michels Brian Scully May 10, 1998 (1998-05-10) 5F17 12.86 203 25 "Natural Born Kissers" Klay Hall Matt Selman May 17, 1998 (1998-05-17) 5F18 14.12 Main topics
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