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 ...

Insight into John Logie Baird and early television experiments. How Paul Nipkow’s scanning disc paved the way for mechanical television. Why electronic systems replaced mechanical television. When ...

Once a status symbol, the color-television set is becoming as commonplace as the second automobile. The Nielsen-ratings service reported last week that 8,784,000 of the nation’s 54.9 million TV ...

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 ...

Color television, the shore dimly seen, broke into the clear last week when the Federal Communications Commission announced it would authorize a new compatible color system which can be received in ...