How TV has Responded to the Online Age

-The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began regular TV broadcasts in 1936 for just a few hours every evening. Many years ago one of the very first newsreaders was interviewed about the early days. The Six O'Clock News lasted 45 minutes. After a radio-style reading of the day's news, they showed newsreel that had been recently received, which often meant going back some days if the film had been flown in from another continent. The newsreader had to recapitulate the events and the background. It was all very different from now, but progress was remarkably rapid.Another thing has changed. In the late 1930s a television set was very expensive and well beyond the means of most people.

-By the early 1970s though, color sets had become standard, and the completion of total color casting was achieved when the last of the daytime programs converted to color and joined with primetime in the first all-color season in 1972.

-Color broadcasting in Europe was not standardized on the PAL format until the 1960s, and broadcasts did not start until 1967. By this point many of the technical problems in the early sets had been worked out, and the spread of color sets in Europe was fairly rapid.

-HD (high definition) TV was also a dramatic change to the way that we watch TV. It meant that audiences could watch TV in a much better quality and enjoy it to its full potential.

-Television today has changed dramatically since it was first developed and broadcasted. Thousands of programs are broadcasted daily worldwide and we can now record, pause and even rewind live television. There are also many websites such as 4oD, BBC iPlayer and itv Player where we can watch any missed TV online. This has also lead to a major decline in the viewing of adverts and people can now skip adverts instead of waiting for their program to come back on the TV. Mobile phone apps can also be downloaded where TV can be watched anytime and anywhere from the click of a button. 

This is an example of an online website in which audiences can catch up with missed TV programs they can watch it anytime and anywhere from a mobile phone or a computer.