2. Most of us dream in color but people who grew up watching in black and color tv. often dream in b/w.
3. The first television commercial — for Bulova watches — was broadcast on July 1, 1941 in New York before a baseball game between Philadelphia and Brooklyn. The company paid $9 for the ad. The first car commercial on television was for Chevrolet and aired on June 9, 1946.
4. The first video cassette recorder (VCR) for consumers was marketed in 1963 in the UK. It could record a maximum of 20 minutes of television. Sony debuted its first VCR for home use in 1965. It would be another decade before VCRs truly caught on.
5. MTV went on the air on Aug. 1, 1981 with the words: “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” The first VJ described MTV as “the best of TV combined with the best of radio.” The first video broadcast by the music network was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Bugles.
6. The first TV remote control came from Zenith in 1950. It was connected to the TV set by a wire (the wireless remote followed in 1955). A 1951 magazine ad for Zenith TVs promised consumers they can “change TV programs from your easy chair with the amazing Zenith ‘Lazy Bones’ remote control.”
7. In 1951, Motorola boasted “18 fashion award-winning cabinet styles” for its TVs. “When decorating your home one of your first considerations must be the style and placing of your television set,” the announcer declared. Motorola offered consumers 65 weeks to pay for their new TVs — with a small down payment. The company sold its TV division to the parent company of Panasonic in 1974.
8. The first national TV broadcast in colour was the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade but most programming was black-and-white until 1965. Sales of colour TVs surpassed black-and-white sets for the first time in 1972.
9. Cable TV was introduced in Canada in 1952 but didn’t spread across the country for about two years. The technology offered up to 12 stations from the U.S. and Canada.
10. The first successful daytime drama on television was Search for Tomorrow, which debuted in 1951 and ran until 1986. The series was sponsored by Procter & Gamble — hence the term “soap operas.”
11. 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).
12. John Logie Baird. He invented in Britain, first. In January 1950, The Indian Express reported that a television was put up for demonstration at an exhibition in the Teynampet locality of Madras (now Chennai) by B. Sivakumaran, a student of electrical engineering.
13. Hum Log is an Indian television's first soap opera and also the first serial drama series on India.
14. Krishi Darshan debuted on Doordarshan on 26 January 1967, and is Indian television's longest running program.
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