Reading

Work in pairs and discuss.

. How olten do you watch television? When and where doyou
LrsLratly watch it?
. Whlch pfograrnmes and TV channets do you prefer? why?

l': Read the article quickty and decide which ofthese tjtLes fits best.
a The iirst television programmes
b Telev sion past and fltufe
c F |sts in telev]s on technology

veryone knows that S@lsmar
John Logie Baird invenled ihe
liEitelevision: n th€ 6arly 1920s,
he made a basictelevlslon whtch
transmtled pictures, buihe didn't devetop
his idealurlh€r But nol manypeope know
that Vlad mnZworykin, a Russian lnvenior,
invenied tho f rst '€ ectronic ielevision in
1929. People otl€n call h m 'the father of
le ev s on' as his inventon becam€ ihe
basls of al modern televisions-
The BBC (rhe Brirish Broadcasri.g
Corporalion) made its iksi TV progra.nmes
in 1936. Mosi people didn'twaich, as
there were only aboLt 100 te evlsion
sets in Bniain atthatrime. Thee were
programmes ior only lwo holrs a day
except Sundays, whenihey didn i show
any progrmmes at alll As w€llas news
ano spons, @oKery programmes were
popular even in the 1930si Frenchman
Marcel Boulesiin became lhe lirsl TV chef
in 1937, The lirst ry adved,ln 1941, was
for a Bu ova clock; t lasied 20 s€concls
and the company paid just $9lo show
iidurinq a baseballgame in New York.
Techno ogy sraned to develop laster
a.d fasier in theseond halfoilhe 20th
c€nlury ColourTV came io lhe USA in the
1950s, io Japan in 1960andlo Europeand
Solth America in rhe late 1960s dd eany
1970s. [4eanwhib, in 1967 peoplea]lover
lhe world watched as The Beatlessahg
on the progEmme our world, rhe ii6i
ever satollite TV pDgramme. The woddis
firsl video recordeB came from Japan n
the mid 1 970s, but DVD p ayers didn't
appear untilNovember 1996, also made by
From 2005, il became poss ble 10 watch
TV on your mobie phon€, thafksto 3G
technology- The firsi country io change
lrom analogue todjgira television was
the USAi. June 2009. Canada and Japan
didthe same in 2011. Peopewatched
the liisi TV programme near y 80 y€ars
ago. Afier the huqe changes i. television
broadcasting in the20rh cent!ry who
krows what the nexi 80 yea6 wilbring?