The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the first time.

Television has a long history, stretching all the way back to the 1960s, of being a bad media object. One key moment in that history is in 1961 when Newton Minow, the head of the FCC at the time, said ...

September 28th marks the 60th anniversary of color television hitting the mass market in America, and it's fun to look back to a time when a color screen was a really, really big deal. RCA created ...

Authors Wally Podrazik and Harry Castleman join WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk about the latest edition of their extremely comprehensive book on the history of television and visual media from the ...

Associate Professor of Film and Television studies Charlotte Howell joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the history of television. How did television work before digital ...