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In 1953's The Wild One. The 1972 Home Box Office (HBO) venture, in which customers paid a subscription fee to access premium cable television shows and video-on-demand products, was the nations first successful pay cable service. Analog systems were prone to static and distortion, resulting in a far poorer picture quality than films shown in movie theaters. Shorter than some of the new types of programs, quiz shows enabled single corporate sponsors to have their names displayed on the set throughout the show. Educators go through a rigorous application process, and every answer they submit is reviewed by our in-house editorial team. Minorities seemed to be shut out from the emerging American Dream. The Culture of Conformity. While the 1950s silver screen lit up mostly with the typical Hollywood fare of Westerns and romances, a handful of films shocked audiences by uncovering the dark side of America's youth. One wonderful effect was that it made speeches shorter. Because there were so few channels, many people watched the same shows, most of which (like Leave It To Beaver) promoted traditional values. Jackson Pollock gained fame through "action painting" pouring, dripping, and spattering the paint onto the canvas. UNAUTHORIZED REPUBLICATION IS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONContent Usage Permissions. On average, Americans spent more than five hours a day in front of the TV. Identify two ways television evolved after World War II. Inventors conceived the idea of television long before the technology to create it appeared. How did these changes make postwar television superior to its predecessor? Studies have shown that television competes with other sources of human interactionsuch as family, friends, church, and schoolin helping young people develop values and form ideas about the world around them. TV sets were expensive and so the audience was generally affluent. The stations initial broadcasts transmitted to just 400 television sets in the New York area, with an audience of 5,000 to 8,000 people (Lohr, 1940). They were also screened on a daily, rather than weekly, basis, drastically increasing advertising costs. Television broadcasting began as early as 1928, when the Federal Radio Commission authorized inventor Charles Jenkins to broadcast from W3XK, an experimental station in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. Log in here. What was one major impact television had on American culture in the 1950s? By 1939, the last mechanical television broadcasts in the United States had been replaced with electronic broadcasts. Juvenile delinquency was no longer a problem for the lower classes; it was lurking in the supposedly perfect suburbs. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Mechanical Television versus Electronic Television. A more efficient and flexible form of broadcast technology, digital television uses signals that translate TV images and sounds into binary code, working in much the same way as a computer. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". The average price of TV sets dropped from about $500 in 1949 to $200 in 1953.

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Like radio before it, the spread of TV had a huge cultural impact. Incentives such as relocation assistance and job placement were offered to Native Americans who were willing to venture off the reservations and into the cities. They're nice and all I'm not saying that but they're also touchy as hell. Between 1952 and 1958 the amount of households owning a television set tripled from 3 million to 9 million. In the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley was introduced to millions of Americans by Sullivan, as were, later on, the Beatles, the Motown artists, and practically everyone else who was to transform the world through popular music. Around the same time the U.S. government was reviewing the options for analog and digital television systems, companies in Japan were developing technology that worked in conjunction with digital signals to create crystal-clear pictures in a wide-screen format. As television sets grew increasingly larger, the limited resolution made scan lines painfully obvious, reducing the clarity of the image. Converters Signal a New Era for TVs, New York Times, June 7, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/technology/07digital.html. Unfortunately, the government excelled at relocation but struggled with job placement, leading to the creation of Native American ghettos in many western cities. TV news, with its broadcast of events such as the protests involved in the Civil Rights movement, also encouraged people's desire for change. Harry Hay, Pauli Murray and Medgar Evers. In addition, the war halted nearly all television broadcasting; many TV stations reduced their schedules to around 4 hours per week or went off the air altogether. It was the first major release to use a rock-and-roll soundtrack and was banned in many areas both for its violent take on high school life and its use of multiracial cast of lead actors. It does not store any personal data. WebBy late 1948, over 900 companies had bought television broadcast time for advertising. The mechanical aspect of television proved to be a disadvantage that required fixing in order for the technology to move forward. Another film about teenage delinquency (the main characters meet at the police station) Rebel is not set amid urban decay, but rather in an affluent suburb. Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. WebBy 1956, television coverage of the parties' presidential nominating conventions was noticeably transforming the conventions from political free-for-alls into media-friendly marketing events. Reservation poverty increased with the Eisenhower policy of "termination," designed to end federal support for tribes. Cable antennas were erected on mountains or other high points, and homes connected to the towers would receive broadcast signals. In the 1990s, cable operators upgraded their systems by building higher-capacity hybrid networks of fiber-optic and coaxial cable. In which of the following ways did television affect U.S. politics in the 1950s? It also recommended that all U.S. television sets operate using analog signals (broadcast signals made of varying radio waves). Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Beginning with the 1948 campaign, it made itself felt in U.S. politics. But despite the emerging affluence of the new American middle class, there was poverty, racism, and alienation in America that was rarely depicted on TV. How do I choose between my boyfriend and my best friend? It was not merely this dichotomy between the actual world and the seemingly perfect television world that led to generation gap problems and misunderstandings. In On the Road, Kerouac's hero travels around the nation, delving into America's fast-living underside. What were the key characteristics of American culture and society during the 1950s? Two key inventions in the 1880s paved the way for television to emerge: the cathode ray tube and the mechanical disk system. ABCs Who Wants to Be a Millionaire brought the quiz show back to prime-time television after a 40-year absence. Other intellectuals were able to detach themselves enough from the American mainstream to review it critically. Latest answer posted June 24, 2011 at 2:16:06 PM. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. The 1960s and 1970s saw a huge step backwards from the 1950s. 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