SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consumerism, Exponential Growth, Oligopoly
20 Apr 2016
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Cold war long case study; good test question. Broadcasting begins on july 1, 1941 and stops because the us enters wwii (december 1, 1941 attack on pearl harbour: us television industry shuts down resources gone into developing. Tv are tasked with war work (re-routed) people that went on to develop and implement sonar and radar so that us had best information technology available to them in efforts to fight/defeat the empires of japan and germany. Television came to screeching halt no further development of technology, no new licenses. After wwii that television begins to develop again even though broadcasting had begun in 1941, only very rich had tv sets at that time (maybe few hundred across us, in ny) In 1941, the four networks (including nbc and cbs and abc offshoot of nbc after anti-trust litigation and dumont) Main broad characeteristics in its early days. In early days, tv shows sponsored by one company (coke, exon, proctor and.
