Television In Cuba ... Extensive discussions about television began to unfold in the radio and entertainment sections of Cuban newspapers and magazines in the year leading up to October 14, 1950, the day Unión Radio-TV became the first television station to broadcast in Havana...
BBC ... Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online...
Cable Modem ... The Australian ISP BigPond employed this system when it started cable modem tests in 1996. For a number of years cable Internet access was only available in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane via CDLP...
Television In Ireland ... The satellite fill-in service (Saorsat) is via Ka-Sat using the Irish ka-Band spot and should be available from June 2011. See the Saorview article for details of the new digital service...
WiMAX ... The original IEEE 802.16 standard (now called "Fixed WiMAX") was published in 2001. WiMAX adopted some of its technology from WiBro, a service marketed in Korea...
LC Circuit ... They are key components in many electronic devices, particularly radio equipment, used in circuits such as oscillators, filters, tuners and frequency mixers...
United States Space Surveillance Network ... Contributions came from radar stations, Baker–Nunn cameras, telescopes, radio receivers, and the Operation Moonwatch participants...
Internet ... Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds...
Radio ... When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor... British Commonwealth countries continued to commonly use the term "wireless" until the mid-20th century, though the magazine of the BBC in the UK has been called Radio Times ever since it was first published in the early 1920s...
Television In Russia ... In 1960 a second national television channel was established. This initial expansion of activity encompassed mostly the city of Moscow, but to a lesser extent also Leningrad, the Urals, Siberia and the Ukrainian SSR...
Mechanical Television ... The earliest mechanical television components originated with 19th century inventors, with 20th century inventors later adding electronic components as they were created. Mechanical systems were used in television broadcasting from 1925 to 1939, overlapping the all-electronic television era by three years...
Color Television ... One of the great technical challenges of introducing color broadcast television was the desire to conserve bandwidth, potentially three times that of the existing black-and-white (B& W) standards, and not use an excessive amount of radio spectrum...
Television In Italy ... As with all the other media of Italy, the Italian television industry is widely considered both inside and outside the country to be overtly politicized. The public broadcaster RAI is, unlike the BBC which is controlled by an independent trust, under direct control of the government...
Television In The United States ... The first three began as radio networks: NBC and CBS in the 1920s, and ABC was spun off from NBC in 1943...
Freeview (New Zealand) ... The Freeview service started in May 2007, introducing free-to-air digital television to the country and preparing for analogue switchoff, which will begin on 30 September 2012 and be completed on 1 December 2013a In May 2011, it was estimated that 77% of New Zealand households have at least one digitally-equipped television set (including Freeview, Sky and TelstraClear), with Freeview making up approximately 45% of the digital television share. Freeview-certified set-top boxes and IDTVs, as well as PVRs, are available at most major New Zealand retailers...
History Of The Internet ... The concept of data communication – transmitting data between two different places, connected via some kind of electromagnetic medium, such as radio or an electrical wire – predates the introduction of the first computers...