author vcard fn”> class=”byline Manuel C. Diaz
Since families do not get together as before television viewing versus only TV in the house. This idyllic scene (the father and mother sitting on the couch, children around and the dog snoozing beside a table), immortalized in magazine ads and movies of the 1950s no longer exists. However, television remains (although we do not see family) an important part of our lives. Not even the new technologies such as the Internet, YouTube and iPhones, have made it disappear, as has been happening with the libraries and newspapers. Television, after all, continues to reign in the family room class=”italic”> of our homes. The children see it-as they enter their Facebook page, check their emails class=”italic”> and texting-in their rooms, and parents from the comfort of your recliner. Actually, no matter how or where to do so. The truth is that everyone still watching.
Few inventions have had such an impact on our society as television. When the first commercial programs aired in the U.S. in 1949 ( Texaco Star Theater and Howdy Doody ), the number of devices television, which did not exceed a few tens of thousands, began to grow for years. Already in 1990, 98 percent of households had at least one TV. A similar phenomenon occurred almost parallel in our countries. The television broke into them with the same force as in North America. From the Caribbean to the Southern Cone, a first and others later, depending on the ability of its entrepreneurs, the signs of the new channels started airing.
Who was the first? Depending on the source consulted. If we take a quick look at Wikipedia we see that in Mexico, for example, the first commercial TV channel XHTV Channel 4, owned by the powerful family O’Farrill, began on September 1, 1950 with the IV Government Report , read by the President of the Republic, Miguel Alemán Valdés. In Brazil, the 18th of the same month of September 1950, Assis Chateaubriand, one of the most influential public figures in the country, founded Tupi TV, Channel 3 in Sao Paulo. In Cuba, television opened officially on October 24, 1950 with the first issue of Gaspar Pumarejo Channel 4, launched into the air from the Presidential Palace and in the words of then president Carlos Prio. Some months later, on March 11, 1951, began regular services Channel 6 Goar Mestre, ending shifting of the first places that of Pumarejo. Argentina made its television debut on October 17, 1951 by signals from Channel 7, owne d by Jaime Yankelevich a Bulgarian-born Argentine businessman, broadcasting pioneer in the country and also owns Radio Belgrano.
In Venezuela, the official start of television is the November 22, 1952, when President Marcos Perez Jimenez inaugurated the National Television state, but its implementation was delayed by technical problems, for 1 January 1953. The television did not reach Colombia until June 13, 1954, under the government of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and initially had a public and an emphasis on cultural and educational programs. Thus, little by little, almost in unison, television was reaching all the countries of the continent and eventually part, to this day, our daily lives.
Why has not succumbed television, and other media, the thrust of the new formats? Why advertisers still prefer to market their products? Why continue to see their programs if, as claimed, have no quality? Will it disappear one day? ! Ah! Television: that wonderful invention. •
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