Articles on Television

Amanda L. (United States of America)
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  1. invent
    come up with after a mental effort
    In short: It may sound hard to believe, but a farm boy from Utah invented the television!
  2. sitcom
    a humorous television program based on day-to-day situations
    His invention made Sesame Street, news programs, sitcoms, dramas, and all the other television programs possible.
  3. electricity
    energy from the flow of charge through a conductor
    His family’s first house, near Beaver, Utah, had no electricity.
  4. electron
    an elementary particle with negative charge
    Farnsworth believed that he could transform electricity into pictures by controlling the speed and direction of fast-flying electrons.
  5. forerunner
    something that precedes something or someone
    His designs and ideas were the forerunners of many things in our lives, like radar, electron microscopes, and incubators.
  6. inauguration
    the ceremonial induction into a position
    It was calculated that almost 38 million people across the world watched the inauguration of President Obama on a television set in their homes in 2009.
  7. medium
    a means or instrumentality for communicating information
    There was a time when there was no television, no medium that would allow people all over the world to experience the same event, at the same time.
  8. commercial
    connected with or engaged in the exchange of goods
    In the 1940s, commercial television broadcasting—using the television as a medium to tell us things, show us things, and sell us things, had begun to take hold.
  9. network
    a communication system consisting of broadcasting stations
    The NBC, CBS, and ABC networks that we know today were building television stations to carry signals into homes in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.
  10. fabric
    the underlying structure
    The television became the main news source above newspapers and radius, and part of the social fabric of communities.
  11. address
    a formal spoken communication to an audience
    In 1947, President Harry Truman's state of the union address and the baseball World Series were televised.
  12. television
    an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
    Throughout the industrialized world, watching television is one of the most time-consuming leisure activities among adults.
  13. glamorous
    having an air of allure, romance and excitement
    Television programs often show people leading more glamorous lives and owning more material goods than most viewers.
  14. televise
    broadcast via a system that transmits images over distance
    In 1947, President Harry Truman's state of the union address and the baseball World Series were televised.
  15. entrepreneur
    someone who organizes a business venture
    Entrepreneurs hurried to build television stations to reach every part of the country.
  16. communicate
    interchange information or ideas
    The television changed the way people communicate.
Created on Tue Oct 06 10:51:04 EDT 2020 (updated Tue Oct 06 13:52:40 EDT 2020)

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