The history of television began long before millions of people gathered in front of their black-and-white sets and fiddled with the antenna and horizontal hold to watch Lucy, Uncle Miltie and Howdy ...

Associate Professor of Film and Television studies Charlotte Howell joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the history of television. How did television work before digital ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WGN Radio’s Rick Kogan is joined in-studio ...

The history of television is a vast wasteland of terrible decisions. For every groundbreaking show like Breaking Bad, Star Trek, and All in the Family that got on the air, there are 50 duds like ...

Television has become a permanent fixture of modern American life. Nielsen's research for 2023-2024 turned up a penetration ...

The biggest juggernaut in children’s-television history sprang forth from mundane origins. At a Manhattan dinner party in 1966, a Carnegie Foundation executive named Lloyd Morrissett mentioned that ...

(CNN) — When the miniseries “Roots” debuted on ABC in January 1977, it created a powerful moment in American culture that remains significant today. (CNN) — When the miniseries “Roots” debuted on ABC ...

Most television series going for laughs or drama — or for realism — portray characters with scripted problems in scripted situations. Sometimes those scripted lines blur into reality. In the 75-year ...

TV is Betty White and Betty White is TV. Known for decades as a plucky and funny TV star, White’s ascension in a medium that didn’t exist at the time of her birth parallels the role the small screen ...

The picture is crisp. The sound is rich, high definition TV, sets shaped like movie screens are now at *** store near you. I've got, you know, projection TV, and this just makes it look sick. But the ...