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The foundation for electronic television didn't come from a mega-corporation, but from a 14-year-old farm boy named Philo Farnsworth. In 1921, while driving a…
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The serious professionals delivering your daily updates are painted exactly like circus clowns under the harsh studio lights. Without heavy layers of…
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Long before modern flat screens, early broadcasting pioneers successfully transmitted surprisingly crisp, multi-hundred-line electronic signals. Though vastly…
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Why bother painting shadows when you can just start in the dark? To capture the incredibly moody, film noir aesthetic of Gotham City, the creators of the…
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While countless hit dramas eventually fade into obscurity, the longest-running television show in history is an incredibly dry American political interview…
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Sports fans learned a brutal lesson in television hierarchy during a 1968 Jets-Raiders match. With 65 seconds left and the Jets winning, NBC ruthlessly cut…
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