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    • How to Be an Anchor on Television

      In England, they are simply called newsreaders. Here, television news broadcasts are held down by anchors, reflecting a more important status that is not always justified. The term originated in 1952. Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. anchored CBS’ coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the first to be televised. For... more »

    • How to Avoid Television

      With the glut of reality television shows over the past few years, watching television has become a less interesting pastime. Her are a few suggestions about how to stay in the cultural loop with out being a couch potato. more »

    • Types of Television Jobs

      Working in television is a fast paced, high pressure but rewarding career. You can work in front of the camera or behind the camera as a videographer, sound person or editor, or you can fix the television equipment as an engineer. These jobs are almost never in the newspaper because the field is highly competitive. The Internet has... more »

    • How Does Public Access Television Work?

      Public access television first began in the 1970s. Cable systems offered public access to certain channels so that they could create content and television programs for people in their community. In 1972, the Federal Communications Commission mandated that new cable systems were required to provide channels for public access.

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    • How to Shoot a Television News Story

      Television news pieces might look spontaneous, but they follow a formula. Whenever you shoot a story, keep the editing process in mind. As a cameraman you're part of a team that includes the editor, reporter, and anchor. more »

    Television Quick Guides

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    • Plan a Super Bowl Party

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    Television

    Television (TV) is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far sight": Greek tele (λε}}), far, and Latin visio, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view in the first person).

    Commercially available since the late 1930s, the television set has become a common communications receiver in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as 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.

    Although other forms such as closed-circuit television are in use, the most common usage of the medium is for broadcast television, which was modeled on the existing radio broadcasting systems developed in the 1920s, and uses high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the television signal to individual TV receivers.

    Broadcast TV is typically disseminated via radio transmissions on designated channels in the 54–890 megahertz frequency band, CSGNetwork.com., a Division of Computer Support Group.. Signals are now often transmitted with stereo and/or surround sound in many countries. Until the 2000s broadcast TV programs were generally recorded and transmitted as an analog signal, but in recent years public and commercial broadcasters have been progressively introducing digital television broadcasting technology.

    A standard television set comprises multiple internal electronic circuits, including those for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is properly called a monitor, rather than a television. A television system read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

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