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Uploaded by on Aug 16, 2010

Sparking a media revolution at the 1939 World's Fair, industry titan David Sarnoff unveiled television with his milestone broadcast from Queens to Manhattan.

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  • Took a long time for TV to really take off, from the time WNBC in New York got started in April 1939. Took two years just to adopt regulations standardizing the technical format (although the FCC, to no one's surprise, adopted RCA's 6 mHz channel, 525 line picture format, and FM sound as the standard for analog TV when it was fully commercialized two years later), The system remained for 70 years, with color video and stereo sound added along the way, until digital TV became law in 2009.

  • so this is the guy responsible for jersey shore? j/k. great video - THUMBS UP!

  • 1933 the American sold they soul to the bankers under social security law and 6 yrs later the brainwash begin to product what they have today "celebrate hi on dope"

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