Brief History Of TV in the UK and Abroad

History of TV in the UK and abroad

History

UK television broadcasting has been around since 1936 when the BBC broadcasted the world’s first ever TV service.  The BBC also built the UKs first broadcasting centre in the 1930s.  After the first broadcast in 1936 there was a verity of new TV programmes coming out for example straight after the first broadcast a cooking programme came out. Other examples of this are in 1946 when the first children’s programme was broadcasted. In 1950s was the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 when 20 million BBC viewers watched the queen being crowned, there was also the first live TV broadcast on the air and then in 1954 there was a daily news bulletin. The first soap on UK TV began in 1955 called The Grove Family and then later  Blue Peter begins in 1958 and the longest running children’s programme.

BBC 2 launchers colour TV channel in 1967 and changed the way TV has been viewed forever. In the 80s a lot of popular TV show came out for example in 1981 Only Fools And Horse which became one of the most popular TV sitcom of all time.

In the 90s TV started turning into a digital broadcasting 24 hour news was now available and BBCs first digital TV channel. In new century (year 2000) is the digital age, were hundreds of new digital channels have been released. The first internet TV website was BBC Iplayer.

Video Technology

UK television is PAL (Phase Alternating Line) it is an analogue signal used in broadcasting television it uses 25 frames per second which is standard for normal television.


A lot of other countries use PAL as there television signal for example Spain and Australia. Most other country’s use the PAL signals because it is cheap and easy to maintain. Another popular TV signal is NTSC which is used by most of America and Japan. NTSC stands for National Television System Committee, there is not much different between NTSC and PAL apart from there is a small difference in picture quality for example PAL can have some grain errors if not tuned properly.

The advances from TV when it first appear in 1936 – 2010 has been massive for example at the start there was no colour in the television sets and programmes but change in 1967 to colour television which was the beginning were everything was starting to change for television for example more programmes came out and analogy is soon changing to just  digital signal, this will be good for people with good signal strength in that area because the picture quality and sound quality of a digital signal are a lot better than analogue signals. But for thoughts without good signal strength the picture will be distorted. Picture quality has also improved throughout the agers mainly due to the cameras used for filming programmes and the broadcasting centre.