This document provides an overview of the history and development of television in India. It discusses key inventors and innovations that led to the creation of the first electronic television in 1927. It outlines important dates in the development of television broadcasting globally and in India. Key events discussed include the introduction of television in India in 1959, the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment from 1975-1976, and the establishment of Doordarshan as the national television network in 1976.

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA
SUBJECT - DEVELOPMENTOF MEDIA
SUBMITTED BY – PRIYANKA SAHU
CLASS – B.Sc. 1ST SEMSTER
GUIDED BY-
VIKAS MISHRA
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT-
DR.NARENDRATRIPATHI

2. TELEVISION
1. Television is a system for
converting visual images (with
sound) into electrical signals,
transmitting them by radio or
other means, and displaying
them electronically on a screen.
"the days before television“
2. Television is a device with a
screen for receiving television
signals.
"a color television"

3. Television’s Origin
Brief History:
There was no single inventor of the
television, there were many inventors
working on the idea of watching pictures
on screen.
Inventors from all over the world had been
working on transmitting pictures or objects
on to a screen since the 1830’s but the
first physical television didn’t evolve until
the 1900’s.

4. INVENTORS
Philo
Farnsworth
Vladimire
Zworykin
Charles
Jenkins
John Baird
Paul
Nipkon
Five men became the most
popular & prestigious
inventors of what we know
today as television. Giving the
history of television a rich
beginning.
They each contributed
significantly to the
development of television
technology.

5. ELECTRONIC TELEVISION
The First
Electronic Television was
Invented in 1927.
The world's first
electronic television was
created by a 21 year old
inventor named PhiloTaylor
Farnsworth.That inventor
lived in a house without
electricity until he was age
14.

6. FUNCTIONS OF TELEVISION
While
the function of television is
frequently debated among
cultural and media critics,
some of the most commonly
recognized functions of televi
sion are to educate, inform
and entertain.These
three functions are hardly
separate from one another,
and
many television programs
perform some combination of
the three.

7. DATES TO REMEMBER
1936 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of
Britain began the first television service of the
world.
1939 -Television broadcasts began in US.
1950s - Other countries began television
broadcasting on a wide scale.
1953 -The first successful programmed in color
was transmitted by CBS in USA.

8.  Broadcasting was expected to contribute to national
integration and development in the country.
The government was reluctant to invest in television.
It was felt that a poor country like India could not afford
the medium.
Post independence, for more than a decade- only radio
news.
Government apprehensive that television was costly
medium for a poor country.

9.  Terrestrial television in
India started with the
experimental telecast starting
in Delhi on 15 September 1959
with a small transmitter and a
makeshift studio.
 Daily transmission began in
1965 as a part of
All India Radio (AIR).
 Television service was later
extended to Bombay and
Amritsar in 1972.
BRIEF INDIAN HISTORY OFTV

10. EARLY DAYS (1959 TO 1975)
 Television was introduced in 1959 It had to prove its role in the
development process.
 FirstTV broadcast in September 1959 as part of all India radio
services.
 Programs broadcast twice a week for 1 hour per day.
 Programs related to the development and social issues awareness
on health and citizen rights related issues
 In 1961 the broadcast were expected to include a School
Educational television projects
 Slowly followed by entertainment -Indian films and Bollywood
songs
 Few old U.S. and British shows were also telecast sporadically.

11. FIRST BREAKTHROUGH- SITE
 SITE - Satellite InstructionalTelevision
Experiment.
 Year long - August 01 1975 to 31st July 1976.
 Marked the beginning of a series of innovative
constructive educational television program for
national development.
 It was design to set test weather satellite based on
television services play a role in
socio economic development.

12. WHAT WAS THE EXPERIMENT
 It was a system test of satellite broadcast television
in India.
 8086 was the satellite for this experiment provided
by NASA National Aeronautics and space
administration USA.
 The ground segment prepared by the Indian Space
Research Organization ISRO working in
collaboration with first All India Radio and later
Doordarshan.

13. DOORDARSHAN
 1976 the government constituted durdarshan the
national television network.
 1976 witnessed the advent of advertising on
Doordarshan and in history ofTV in India.
 Commercialization of Doordarshan saw the
development of soap, operas, situation, comedy,
Dramas musical programs quiz shows.

14. Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulashan

15. SUCCESSFUL SATELLITE EXPERIMENT
 The educational and developmental programs were
blamed up to the satellite from earth station set up in
Ahmadabad and Delhi and were broadcast towards
India using the high power transmitter and the large
antenna aboard ATS -6 these programs were
received in about 2400 villages in six different
states of India.