Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Iconoscope, Kinescope, Stratovision
1 Apr 2015
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When disk is moving and projected image going through it, have the impression of a moving image: still needed external power, but basis of experiments for television, john baird, scottish engineer, first working television system. Television"s slow spread: patent fights, economics, remnants of the depression, world war 2, regulation dispute, nbc/rca (vhf) v. cbs (uhf) Cbs: we need to go with the commercial model in the context of the fact that communism and communists are growing (period in time where any communist philosophy would be called communism, painted as an awful thing: making arguments about the value capitalism plays in ensuring freedom (philosophical, anything that isn"t commercial is communist. Only go to 2 major stations, so nbc and cbs could charge an enormous amount for ads, enormous demand for air time: buyer"s market for programming, production costs, nbc, cbs use radio profits, dumont, abc suffer.
