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tel·e·vi·sion
/ ˈteləˌvizhən/
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n.
1.
a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.
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the activity, profession, or medium of broadcasting on television:
neither of my children showed the merest inclination to follow me into television|
[as adj.]
television news.
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television programs:
Dan was sitting on the sofa watching television.
2.
(also tel·e·vi·sion set)
a box-shaped device that receives television signals and reproduces them on a screen.
PHRASES:
on
(the) television
being broadcast by television; appearing in a television program:
Norman was on television yesterday.
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television.com Set to Launch in the Fall; Steeplechase Media and MarkeTVision Direct Team to Launch Interactive Television Portal Site.
Business Wire; 7/6/1999; 700+ words
; ...the country's leading interactive television content developer, and MarkeTVision...today announced an agreement to create television.com, a new joint venture company that will create the television viewer's gateway to interactive television...
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TELEVISION.COM: The Gateway to The 'New Television'.
PR Newswire; 8/16/2000; 700+ words
; Definitive television site announces launch LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The launch of television.com was announced today by its CEO...aggregated programming and original shows, television.com is a modern interactive guide...
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TELEVISION SHAPES KIDS' MINDS AND UNDERMINES THEIR LEARNING
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/18/1992; 700+ words
; ...Hammond. In 1939, when a prototype television was demonstrated at the World's Fair...was not impressed. "The problem with television," he wrote, "is that people must...Fears about the harmful impact of television on children and adults date back to...
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television.com To Launch August 16th; Site to Become Connecting Point to the World of Television, Past, Present, and Future.
Business Wire; 6/5/2000; 700+ words
; ...June 5, 2000 Larry Namer, CEO of television.com, LLC. and founder of E! Entertainment Television, Inc., announced today that the site...definitive destination for all things television-related, will officially launch August...
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television.com to Offer Popular Indian TV Programming Through Partnership with Homeland Networks.
PR Newswire; 8/14/2000; 700+ words
; ...com Streamed Video Now Available On Television.com SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Larry Namer, CEO of television.com -- the new way to connect to the world of television -- today announced a partnership with...
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television.com's Off to a Great Start.
PR Newswire; 9/11/2000; 700+ words
; Just Two Weeks After Launch, television.com Already Boasts Impressive...Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- television.com has drawn over 700,000...weeks, it was announced today by television.com's CEO Larry Namer. "I...
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Television via the Internet: new directions.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...dominant medium for delivering television programs and provide the...Others see the mature Internet television of the future as little more...viewed on PCs rather than televisions, in offices and dens rather...generation of today's Internet television services with more advanced...
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Television violence and children.
Magazine article from: Childhood Education; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...articles that discuss topics related to television violence and children are summarized...PS026610, PS026611, PS026612 NATIONAL TELEVISION VIOLENCE STUDY. Volumes 1, 2, and...order@sagepub.com.) The National Television Violence Study (NTVS), begun in 1994...
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Television in the lives of children and their families. (For Parents Particularly)
Magazine article from: Childhood Education; 12/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...have voiced concern over the quality of television and the consequences of viewing it...negative effects associated with frequent television watching, especially among younger...examines the broad and subtle effects of television watching on children and their families...
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television.com Working With InfoSpace to Bring Interactive Television to the Desktop.
PR Newswire; 8/15/2000; 700+ words
; television.com Uses InfoSpace's Infrastructure Services...to Offer Rich, Personalized, Interactive Television Experience LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Larry Namer, CEO of television.com, the new way to connect to the world...
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Television
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...the spread of television. As more people...able to purchase televisions the demand for content grew. Early television programs offered...American homes with television sets; by 1950...5 million. Televisions are now found...
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Television Habits
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
...The AAP recommends that television and video viewing for children...be inhibited by too much television watching. They recommend that televisions be removed from childcare...more than two hours of television and videos daily. Toddlerhood...
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Television is Born
Book article from: American Decades
TELEVISION IS BORN Slow Development Although the basic components of television were developed as early as the 1870s, the technology...broadcast an image until the 1920s. Even then television was too crude for widespread use. There were...
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Television Ratings
Book article from: Mathematics
...are asked if their televisions are on and who is watching...provides a check on television usage and viewing...information on the amount of television set usage, the programs...watching. To measure television set usage in sample...installs meters to televisions which automatically...
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The Television Industry
Book article from: American Decades
...Further development of television took a backseat to military...war ended production on television sets began in earnest. The "Model T" of televisions, the RCA Victor, received...sets lived in or near "television cities," such as New...
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