For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented.
Television was deemed ready for the public consumption with the adoption of signal standards in March, 1941 (Countdown #92 – Standards) and made it's first tentative steps toward commercialization with advertising that summer (Countdown #91 – Bulova Time).
It all came to a screeching halt when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Most histories of television will draw a blank line through World War II, implying that the industry went into suspended animation from 1941 until 1946. But the race for television going into 1940s fed directly into war effort. And when the fighting finally ended, the war effort would, in turn, supercharge television's assault on the nation’s airwaves.
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Read: The Boy Who Invented Television: https://amz.run/6ag1
