This is my dumping ground for quotes and other stuff relating to the wonderful world of digital & communications.
From Oct 1946: “We must blaze a trail to new media… television is just one phase of a new advertising age (we might call) the ‘electronic age’… “
From June 1947: “Give TV a chance — Video’s skeptics … expect to be able to say ‘see we told you so. Television is a flop!…. We say: give television 5 years…”
The second of July 1921 was also a historic day in the brief history of broadcasting. For this was the first time that the live mediated audience for a major event had outnumbered those watching in person. Ninety thousand had packed the Jersey City arena. But, by the magazine’s estimation, ‘a multitude – not less than 300,000 persons – tense and eager’ had followed the fight from afar.
We celebrate 60 years of color TV this month. This 1953 history from RCA looks back at the birth of the technology, back when color screens were a really, really big deal.
