A few examples:
- TV was mainly an electromechanical affair for the first 25 years
- What early inventor turned out to have a anti-Semitic bent?
- Who pushed what was derisively known as the "Music Box?"
- Why were the words "to no one in particular" said regarding radio?
- What one company greatly influenced RCA at it's inception and demise?
- Like TV, early high powered radio transmitters were also largely mechanical affairs
- Who was told to fix the noise problem in AM, and instead came up with FM?
- That same man went from a ally of the president of RCA to suicide, partially because of that same man
- What were the red and blue networks?
- Which color network did ABC come out of?
- How were flying spot scanners used early on?
- Who had the first all-electronic TV system?
- Who told Sarnoff that he could perfect TV for a million dollars, when it took 50 times that amount?
- What station was the first to pay their network instead of the network paying the local station?
- What television network fought strenuously against color TV
- Why did one network convert totally to color early on while two others waited 10-15 years to do so?
- What color system harked back to the early days of mechanical TV?
- Before videotape how were TV programs recorded?
- What entertainer was a major financial backer in the development of videotape, and why?
- What network got the Grass Valley Group into video?
- Easy one to end on: Who said "What the hell is a proc amp?" Then designed and built one in 10 days?
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At the very bottom of this page is a tie in to Grass Valley.