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Older Than Cable TV
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The Oldest Ones in the Book Older Than the NES | Before 1985 Older than Cable TV | 1939 — 1980 Older Than Television | 1890 — 1939 Older Than Radio | 1698 — 1890 Older Than Steam | 1439 — 1698 Older Than Print | 476 — 1439 Older Than Feudalism | ~800 BC — 476 AD Older Than Dirt | Before ~800 BC Tropes first documented after the emergence of broadcast television as a mass medium of entertainment (1940) until the rise of cable television (1980). Television had the fastest adoption rate of any media technology until the iPod. In the 1940s TV sets in the USA numbered less than 10 thousand, by the 1970s there were over 140 million (And as of 2012, at least 302 million). The number of TV stations also went from 9 to 953 in the same time-frame. This rapid rise meant millions of viewers and millions of dollars in advertising revenue; which by 1950 were based on ratings generated from quarterly questionnaires, called "sweeps" for their staggered regional polling. Executive Meddling soon followed as Network Executives learned that only popular shows made money, with fiction being a big seller. Some networks like PBS and local news-stations are funded by donations from viewers instead, these tend to focus on non-fiction. The limited number of over-the-air channels and (initially) TV sets meant that audiences were not as niche and fractured as they are now. Any given show or episode could more easily become the talk of the country since more people were likely to have seen it. This in turn meant that there were limits on content "because children may be watching" — which was the source of late-night content restrictions, as that was when kids were supposed to be asleep. As on-screen content ratings didn't arrive until the 1990s, the Broadcast Standards and Practices (BS&P) during this time period was tougher than today and started the Editing [of Films] for Syndication. For more technical information and tropes in general, see the Useful Notes for Television. T.V. series also share many tropes with both radio and cinematic films, so be sure to check the Older Than Television index for tropes which TV may be famous for, but are Older Than They Think. See also The Golden Age of Video Games for video-games from this time period. |
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DBTropes | |
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Made-for-TV Movie — The Three Musketeers, 1950 | |
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Buddy Cop Show — Dragnet, 1949 | |
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Summer Blockbuster — Jaws, 1975 | |
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Toku — Godzilla, 1954 | |
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Arguably The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) | |
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