TV: A Forgotten History
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- The invention of television was a dynamic process that represented the convergence of many technological innovations and inventors. The medium has been both affected by, and affected, history. The History Guy remembers the forgotten history of the small screen.
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Does anyone remember the broadcasters playing the national anthem and the flag waving...before going to white noise at midnight?
And that poem about “slipping the surly bonds of earth”.
Yep
Of course!!
we had the goodnight kiwi that climbed up to the top of the tv station and went to sleep
Oh, I sure do remember those days! I was a child in those days. To me, when the TV went off the air, it was like the end of the world! Now TV is broadcast 24/7
The Irony is that the quality of information transmitted by TV has been declining for some time. That in turn causes the discerning viewer to seek internet channels like The History Guy.
TV isn't the only game in town anymore. At least 90% is unwatchable hot garbage. Of course , the internet is full of idiocy also...
It’s not just TV it’s all knowledge. 100 years ago the average library had a larger non-fiction section than fiction. Not so today.
Irony is what water tastes like if you get new pipes in your house.
@@roberthurley3941, point of clarification: the average public library. Academic, research, and special libraries still overwhelmingly carry nonfiction over fiction with one exception: Libraries dedicated to fiction writers, as you might expect, have a large section of the writers' work. But they also carry research material about the writer timself and tis life.
@@roberthurley3941 so true. Nowadays, nonfiction is also fiction.
History Guy, I’ve been a Television engineer for over 40 years and my mentors were some of the earlier post-WWII pioneers. It’s a topic with a rich and complicated history. You nailed it my friend. Your chronology was spot-on and you also included multiple threads beyond terrestrial TV into cable, satellite and internet TV services. Nice job.
That's some high praise!
He layered everything very well.
I used to be a TV repairman, when I first started fixing TVs they were still using tubes and about half of them were using transistors, I am amazed by how much they have changed
There’s still demand for that from TV collectors.
Btw i havent felt the need to watch tv ever since i discovered youtube in 2010
The breaking point was only ca 15 -- 10 years ago.
"I likes to work with nobody around. No silly questions like, uh, ‘What are all the tubes for?’ As if anyone *knows."*
-Huckleberry Hound, "Two For Tee Vee" (1962)
In 1980 my father sent me to town to buy a new television to replace our old black and white that finally died. I came back with a new color set and he threw a fit about me wasting money on color when black and white was good enough. I listened to his rant and when he stopped I told him They had quit selling black and white sets because everyone wanted color. He shook his head and said, "This country is going to Hell!".
There you have it History Guy, the moment the country started down the road to perdition as predicted by my father.
Perfect! 😆
Oh boy but I could just about hear that conversation word for word in my head! I bet lots of us heard a similar conversation like that sometime or another.
Fathersnsaid that when the popular dance of the day was the "Turkey trot". And don't forget ELVIS!! We had a BW tv until 1961 or so. The old color sets had a real hard time producing a decent grass green color. You had to adjust to color guns, the red and the green, to get yellow and that would send the green gun nuts trying to give a decent green. It always looked like mud because the brightness had to be adjusted also. What a mess. And don't forget that the crt had a flat-ish screen so the rays had to be bent to allow them to hit the right dot. That was the convergence and depending on the brand of tv, the convergence could be a headache!
We had B&W sets up until the mid 70s, when Dad brought home a 19" Philco-Ford color set, a used one apparently bought cheap from a motel. The green gun was essentially shot, so everything that wasn't red, blue or magenta looked very odd. I remember visiting the neighbors and they had a Trinitron. They were watching football. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the field was green!
Saw my first colour show c. 1957, Perry Como show. He was wearing a red sweater. Remembering like it was yesterday.
History deserves to be remembered: I was the first remote control device.
"Change the channel, boy"!😁
Me again?
Why don't you send ..... (insert the name of a younger sibling ).
Hahaha....
The same story all over the world up until the invention of the remote control!
@@georget8008
My sister was the first automatic dishwasher!
WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..
The TV came from Henry Sutton www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDMK... the inventor every one has forgoton.
@@georget8008 That or else whoever was in the doghouse. Another residing factor was some good or not so good competition factor. Other times, maybe a threat of change it or else!
6.1 million hours watching THG sounds like time wisely invested.
Done on a much lower budget than those "history channel "type programs too!
My husband said,if his dad was still alive..he could easily past 6.1 million hours in internet porn easy..LOL..
Your brain cells will thank you.....
One omission: Nazi Germany had regular TV broadcasting in service, starting before WWII.
Being born in 1984. I remember this “older times” well. I even had a family console tv with just locals, then C Band, then finally cable. I had to go to a relatives house to see channels I didn’t get at home. I never even saw Cartoon Network til 1998. I grew up on afternoon Wonder Years, Saturday morning cartoons, and PBS for everything else. Explains my love for This Old House. This channel by the way is amazing. Watching videos of yours sir is like sitting next to a warm fire on a winters night. Or A/C on a very hot day. lol
I will say it again: This is simply one of the finest channels on RUclips.
Agreed. I just discovered it yesterday. Excellent presenter, good topics, and it is made for our modern limited attention span! I've started spreading the word.
I really like how he just states facts and doesn’t interject opinions or politics. Its rare to see the anymore.
AMEN!!!
*I couldn't agree more.*
Not "one of the finest History channels" but one of the finest channels ... period.
Sure is.
The History Guy has dramatically increased my screen time.
gb He has increased mine along with Mark Felton as well. This type of programming isn’t broadcast on tv any more.
@@TheOldGord Love Mark's work. I'm a WWII buff from way back, and I'm always learning new things from his videos.
😀
Mine too!
I watch about 2 hours of broadcast TV every day, one hour of which are old MASH reruns. I'm embarrassed to tell you how much time I spend watching The History Guy every day!
I remember UHF and VHF and having 3 networks and PBS. This was a serious trip down memory lane. Thank you, THG!
The History Guy is discussing factual, verified history, and releasing his content for free via RUclips. The paid cable counterpart of The History Channel is creating content about ancient aliens and conspiracy theories.
No wonder why more people are getting becoming cable cutters and getting their content from History Guy/Veritasium/other quality RUclips channels.
Great stuff HG... keep up the good work!
:D ... Yeah ....... Even the weirdo conspiracy stuff has better (much less BS) equivalents on youtube (Dark Docs)... Another superb totally legit history channel is World War 2 in real time (/Timeghost). They're producing superb content... I think it's much better than what the History Channel produced even back when HC were producing war documentaries based on actual history :D
WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..
@@ianfarr-wharton1000 He designed a mechanical 'telephany' video transmitter and receiver system, but it was never built as it relied on wires for transmission because the radio had not arrived. A brilliant Australian.
@@normanmazlin6741 It did work, He filmed the Melbourne cup, he also invented the light bulb. If you look into his work, he rewrites history.. he is the inventor every one forgets.
@@normanmazlin6741Arguably his most famous invention, the telephane, was used to transmit an image from the Melbourne Cup along telegraph wires to Ballarat in 1885.. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-04/why-have-we-forgotten-australias-edison/10567060
"The History Guy is not that big a channel by RUclips standards..." Maybe so, but it IS one of the very best!
You are Awesome!
That's why it isn't big.
Agreed.
@thomas fraley I get information overload at times with 3 monitors and HSP internet...THG is one of the best factual and entertaining at the same time, lots of morsels not necessarily seen in the school textbooks.....
Absolutely!
@thomas fraley leaning something new it’s like brain endorphins.
Interesting history. I tossed my widescreen TV when it broke down ten years ago. I didn't replace it and I've been without a TV for all that time. Don't miss it at all.
Another story: over the past 10 years or so, I have accumulated three flat screen T.V.s. My Mom gave me one when she downsized, my nephew gave me
one when he bought a new one, and a neighbor gave me one that he said "took-up too much room". All three work perfectly - the only issue - I already had
a perfectly good T.V. that was in this house when I moved in. It must be from the early 2000's and works very well. I cancelled my cable about three years
ago and don't miss it either. It is still hooked-up to my VCR and DVD players so I can watch my nearly 1200 titles on tape and disks anytime.
I tossed my TV can't remember how many years ago..at least 10, or more. I got sick of paying for cable, satellite, etc and WATCHING ADS. I was watching a Steelers football game and timed the amount of time for the game, vs the amount of time spent on ads. It was like two minutes of game vs five of ads...constantly. Got up, called the company and CANCELLED IMMEDIATELY. So sick of paying to watch ads! I too never regretted it.
Yet another valuable and interesting episode.
Viewing this on my solid-state flat screen computer monitor, I was reminded of my first encounter with television. It was 1958, so I was age 9 or 10, and it was in Canada. One day in the coming week my father was going to be interviewed on a Toronto TV station, so the family rented a set for a week so we could watch at the proper time. (Everything was "live" in those days.) The screen was round, probably about 10 inches (254 mm) in diameter, and everything was in shades of GREEN. (Years later I became very familiar with that particular shade of green because of a long career in electronics, using and maintaining instruments such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. That made me realize that the old round TV receiver probably used a single green phosphor on the screen, just like the electronic instruments.)
The History Guy: Deserves to be regarded
He is highly regarded by many. Myself included.
Coffee and history is how my morning goes now..
Me too!
I'll take mine with milk and sugar, please 😊
History of coffee... has he done it yet?
me too
@@Exedus20 I would rather know the history behind milk and sugar. Also I like coffee and history. The Bible Project has lots of history to learn on their channel too
I enjoyed this content reminiscing of an old portable black and white AM/FM/UHF - weather band TV that over the years required balled up aluminum foil to aid in its reception but in todays age; I don't even own a TV. Being able to build my own PC and watch what I'm interested in over the internet suits this 56 year old man just fine. Thank you for your contributions so even my 27 year old son might understand that back in the day we had to get up and cross the room to change channels of which there were only four to choose from...
I remember the TV repairman coming to the house every few months to replace tubes and realign the channel dial with the station numbers!
Like Sir I can remember when stations shutdown their broadcasts at 12am with a picture of our flag and the playing of our national anthem. Have times changed! Great lesson History Guy!
This is still a good idea
david vogel - sometimes we just need to decompress! But I always felt bad for my mom when she would get home late from working and she needed to unwind. She would quietly read and slowly drift off to sleep on our couch. Maybe that was for the better.
I remember in 80's we still had local TV stations shut down near midnight. They was nothing on TV until 6 am if lucky . And God bless if President was on TV across All channels was his ugly face no matter what.
@@MrWATCHthisWAY I am sure it was with the relaxing time to be ready for sleeping.
& then the " maggot races" 📉😎📈
As a Broadcast Engineer, just wanted to say: you nailed this. No surprise of course.
Are you down with "Madman" Muntz?
WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..
Do you drive the choo choo train since you are an engineer?😁
@@glennso47 just make sure that the train that a broadcast facility is stays on the air 😂
Here is for all the dumb as dog shit people. :- Arguably his most famous invention, the telephane, was used to transmit an image from the Melbourne Cup along telegraph wires to Ballarat in 1885.. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-04/why-have-we-forgotten-australias-edison/10567060
It’s not just the history but the way you present it that makes this such an amazing channel. Thank you for sharing your love with us and helping me like learning history.
I am old enough to remember the day I first heard of television I was about 4 yrs old...there was only one channel and it didn't come on air til three o'clock pm..my neighbors had bought a new TV...and I can also say that the inventor of TV is my dad's cousin.. Mr Farnsworth...but that's dating me bad enough I guess...I love your channel and hope to see a lot more of your smiling face
As Mr. Rogers was to children's television, so you are to RUclips- you make content worth watching and help to legitimize what might otherwise be a wasteland of cat videos, epic fails, and "hold my beer" moments of stupidity.
Seated LIberty: History Guy is worthy content!
Cat from video: Hold my beer
I thought the one with the blonde lady and the cat was Penny yelling at soft kitty
I remember when I was the TV remote... as in: "Son, get up and go change the channel please."
At least you got a 'please' LOL!
And don't forget the machine-gun sound when you turned the knob really fast!
@@FiferSkipper - My Dad was a WWII Marine and had a very unique way of saying "PLEASE". (It loosely translated to - Get up off your penguin butt and change the G.D. channel or I will whoop your ass good.) I think he learned it from a Drill Instructor. Oh, I had forgotten about the "machine-gun sound". Had a lot of fun with that.
And we changed that channel with a pair of pliers.
@Tucsoncoyote 2019: Yes, yes I did.
Actually, I was in my room doing homework, so they changed their channels themselves.
This is a challenging topic to fit into your short video time limit.
Intercarrier sound was actually developed during WWII.
The 2 biggest things that prevented Television from becoming established in the US Pre-WWII were lack of standardization and lack of permission for commercial broadcasting. Television stations prior to the FCC creating the NTSC standard (which solved both issues) could only opperate in the capacity of an Amatuer/Ham radio station experimenting with the technology, but not broadcasting commercials or opperating in a capacity in which the station could earn revenue from it's service. One of the first major public demonstrations of electronic television in the USA was the 1939 Worlds Fair...At that point RCA had an 411 line AM video AM sound TV system, Philco had an 800 line system and other companies (like Zenith and Dumont) experimenting with TV pre-war had other systems. The line count, frame rate, sync signals (to time start of line and frame), use of interlacing, and RF modulation had to all be the same or close between transmitter and reciever for things to work. The FCC was slow and reluctant to adopt a standard believing the technology was not yet mature. RCA believed it to be mature after the World's Fair demo and started selling its 411 line sets to the public which provoked the FCC into working with industry to create the NTSC standard. The NTSC standard and the commercial broadcasting it allowed did not commence until June of 1941, and the NTSC standard did not conform to any manufactuer's existing experimental systems requiring new engineering for compatibility...Electronics then had a similar model year release and development cycle to cars and Pearl Harbor happened while our electronic industry wa sgearing up for TV. Had WWII taken another year or 2 to start or the NTCS standard been created earlier, then pre-war electronic TV would have been atleast as popular in the US as in Brittan where it had been standardized and and made a service of the BBC in the mid-30's. TV if standardized for commercial broadcast would have taken off even in depression era America. In the opening years of the depression radio was one of the only growing industries in America. Yes many of the small brands especially ones with finances tied to the stock market died at the beginning of the depression, but the companies that remained flourished. A family with little disposible income could save money and get unending news entertainment by cutting off spending on newspapers, movies, phonograph records, etc and instead purchasing a radio.
The history of color television development in the US especially at the technological and market level I could write a book on...At the global level there were interesting geopolitical and technological stories behind the later PAL and SECAM systems and bizzare cross polination between the european and US monochrome and color standards.
Enjoyed this history. As an 8 year old boy in 1955 Amsterdam, we had Saturday and Wednesday afternoon off from school. I can clearly remember going to the house of a rich school friend whose dad ran a shoe store. We,were all invited to watch cartoons..it was magic at the time!
So you had school on Sundays too? I know when we lived in Germany for a year they had school on Saturdays, but only mornings, not a full day. Sunday was off. But if you were in grade school, you didn't have Saturday morning school like when you went to the Gymnasium. Back in the U.S. we had both Saturdays and Sundays off, and summer break was three months long.
@@marcusdamberger no. Sundays were for dressing up to go to church and have coffee and cakes with family after
Glad The History Guy is getting so much attention. Love this channel.
WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..
@@ianfarr-wharton1000 I know Sutton designed a version of television, but I don't think he ever successfully built a functioning one.
@@SamPanamaOfficial Not just theTV came from Henry Sutton www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDMK... the inventor every one has forgoton.
@@SamPanamaOfficialIt did work, He filmed the Melbourne cup, he also invented the light bulb. If you look into his work, he rewrites history.. he is the inventor every one forgets.
@@ianfarr-wharton1000 Sutton NEVER demonstrated his idea for mechanically sending images. Sutton did develop the use of galena crystals to detect radio waves which was a great step forward for early radio.
"Good news everyone! I've invented the electronic television!" - farnsworth
"And using my patented Finglonger, it can be controlled remotely!"
@@deadfreightwest5956 Now we can get intergalactic tv shows from the planet Floog.
@Timothy McCaskey I read that in my mind in Hubert J. Farnsworth's voice (of course!)🤣
I was looking for this reference
When I started junior high. In 1990 I went into the tv servicing field when school was out for summer and learned a lot
I'm 86 now and I still remember my parents, sister and I seated around that little TV and one of us always had to play with the attached "rabbit ears" antenna to try to stabilize the picture. Now my wife and I watch RUclips and Netflix on a TV that is almost half the width of our living room.
You forgot to mention the early remote control televisions; "Boy! Go change the channel!"
The Monty Python sketch! Too funny!
Yep. All worked by voice command. Boy turn on the TV, boy turn the volume up, boy adjust the antenna, boy change the channel, and boy get me a beer.
Unless you lose the pliers
If studying history in high school had been as entertaining as it is watching The History Guy, I would have enjoyed high school so much more.
Doesn't matter what the subject is, you make it fun, thoroughly enjoyable.
At that point, learning becomes easy.
Absolutely!
Thats true! My family in general loves history, but my elementary school history teacher really secured my love for the subject. I passed that love along to my daughter, whom upon 8th grade graduation, was given a newly created award from the history teacher for her advanced understanding and passion, (and she went to a private school so awards did not come easily!).
Scotty Kilmer has started a new RUclips channel about cars. He's doing a history of Toyota automobiles.
One thing we lost with the internet was the fun of anticipating the Sunday night TV shows when the family would gather together sometimes with food and drinks. miss that so much. We would be out playing or trying to finish our homework which we should have done friday afternoon when Mom would call us to say our show was on.
We had only two channels until I was 8 or 9.
Receiving TV signals back then was an art form.
I kinda miss the rigid schedules that shows used to adhere to.
Some shows you watched when you could. Other shows you
planned your day or week around. But I am glad to have control over my TV.
I hope more folks get to watch the History Guy. He's producing good stuff. Quality stories.
This would've been a perfect Sunday afternoon TV show back in the day.
Idk why but this episode made me think of Back to the Future: Oh honey he's teasing! Nobody has 2 television sets!
You may not like this, but your kids will love it!
I actually had a tv in my bedroom in the 80's, but it was an old black and white tv. Not sure how old it was, but amazing that tv's could last so long back in those days.
Jimmy M I still have mine that I bought in 1980.
@@glennso47 it's not that they didn't like it. They just weren't ready for it :)
@@jimmym3352 I had the exact same setup. We had a big color set in the living room, and I had an old black and white hand-me-down in my bedroom. I used to watch Star Trek on it 5 nights a week just after dinner.
When my TV broke I would take the tubes to the 7-Eleven store to test them. K-mart sold the tubes cheaper.
Does anyone remember having to SMACK the TV when it went wonky?
I wonder when the last year K Mart actually sold vacuum tubes.
@@gregorymalchuk272 mid to late seventies, my guess.
I remember when my younger brother got a mouth full of water and spit it into the back of the tv set. Wasn't pretty!!
I miss just hitting things to make them work better. Those crazy baby boomers & their shell shocked parents, the g generation used the same solution for everything; just smack it till it does what you want. There is a certain “elegance” to that simplistic thinking.
@@glennso47 My best laugh today. Thanks.
Your enthusiasm for the subject matter has a lot to do with why you have an audience sir. I LOVE watching your content!
As a recent subscriber I greatly enjoy each episode of The History Guy. While watching this episode the comment about only having 3 channels reminded of my youth where our evening entertainment was not the watching of TV, but the constant attempts of rotating the outside antenna to the right position to be able to watch a show. My 3 older brothers were responsible for the manual turning of the antenna. My dad would be setting in the recliner and 1 brother was at the front door, second brother at the corner of the house, and the 3rd brother stood at the antenna with a pipe wrench. By the time my dad would say stop and the last brother at the antenna heard stop, the reception was distorted and the scenario would start over again. I don’t think we completely watched a full episode of any show for quite some time.
The earliest I remember was a few channels and bunny ears. The remote consisted of my father telling me to get up and change the channel, and when the knob broke, we used a pair of pliers. Does anyone remember when stations used to sign off each day for a few hours?
Always signed off by playing the national anthem.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Same thing just to the north in Canada; the flag and "Oh Canada", then nighty-night, nation.
Same thing in my home!
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered yep
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel or Ray Charles singing America the beautiful!
I am so old that I remember when the newspaper was made of PAPER !
Jake Dee I’m so old I remember when dirt was invented,
I went to buy a paper at a gas station......2 dollars? Since when? I thought it would be 25 cents. I just wanted to light the barbeque. I didn't even bother bringing any more money.
@@WillWilsonII I am so old that I remember when money was made out of PAPER !
The Sunday paper had TWO Comic sections of two full sheets and one half sheet. My brother and I would fight who got to read what first.
Now the newspaper, the television, and the computer come in one device, often small enough to fit in your pocket.
Your RUclips statistics translate to the equivalent of almost 10 human lifetimes of viewing in a single year.
Spectacular.
TV from the MOON! A highlight of my career as a photojournalist was meeting Mike Collins, Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. I met Collins because he was taking part in honoring local resident Stan Labar, who developed the TV camera that allowed the world to watch live as Neil Armstrong took his first step on the lunar surface. I was 12 in 1969, and I still vividly remember watching those ghostly images of Armstrong, on my family’s first color television we’d gotten just a year before as Apollo 8 first orbited the moon.
As for rasterization…the Associated Press sent photos to news outlets around the world using rasterization well into the 1980s. How much time did I spend listening to the machine creating line after line…
My husband was a high school paperboy, and used all his hard-earned savings to purchase a color TV to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing. Was he disappointed when the transmission from the moon was in black and white! (All subsequent ones were in color, however.)
When I went to school, they taught history, and I really like it.
History repeats itself if it is forgotten.
I just got a pop up from a website that I subscribe to. The headline says "Is Your Smart TV Spying On You?" Remember when tv sets were just "stupid" rather than
"smart"?"
Del Evans think about why Napoleon didn’t take over the world....he tried to fight a land war in Russia and wasn’t prepared for the intense cold and couldn’t get supplies like he needed. He lost over 300,000 Troops and had to retreat. So, why did hitler lose world war 2 over a 130 years later ? History repeats itself if you don’t learn from it. That’s how we know
@Del Evans I studied it and many times in my 63 years it already has.
It repeats itself if it's not forgotten as well. The Jews returning to Palestine would be a prime example.
For me, history become much more interesting in video form, especially History Guy-style. I can look at relevant photos while listening to history. And on the History Guy RUclips channel the history is rationed out in just the right size portions.
It's perfectly distilled information without all the advertisements, repetition, and puffery that you'd get from a TV documentary.
Well said, I like to look at it as a spring board into areas I find as interesting.
@@mastafull Puffery. I like that term.
Great video. As an electrical engineer I love seeing this and it makes me happy that you have brought a better technical understanding to an audience consisting mostly of non-engineers.
I do feel you should have added a paragraph about the future of television and mention the current transition over to ATSC 3.0.
My grandmother told me how her father made a Nipkow disk TV in the 1930's. In Philadelphia there was one broadcast a week. She told me about watching an orchestra playing and she said the picture wasn't all that good.
History was my least favorite subject in school. Now I can't get enough of your videos.
Long live the "History Dude"
You're still not learning history. This is propaganda.
Schools seem compelled to leave the "fun juice" out of most books and lessons, though good teachers can add some back in. But THG is free to go his own way. Thankfully so much of what I disliked in school is enjoyable with the spices of interesting tastes. .
It does help if the person teaching is interesting and not boring. This guy is interesting and not at all boring.
@@markmarkofkane8167 I stumbled across the "Half As Interesting" channel. Let's just say, that channels name is a stretch. Too much goofy content and not enough history. (They could cut their videos in half and they'd still be too long for what they include).
THG is interesting and informative without being silly, and he makes me want to learn more. And, I'm in my mid-50s and never thought I'd find history so fun.
School had away of destroying any interesting subject or topic
With that said; by the "History Guy," the "History Guy" will be forever a part of history. A part of history that deserves to be remembered. Quality will always trump quantity.
TV has always been a weapon used by govt...to distract and misdirect from the reality the govt.dont want us to know about.
Well said.
That would be "Historiography that deserves to be remembered".
@@getredytagetredy Be it story telling with a fable like quality, a factual historic event, or even a tool to manipulate people, humans will always enjoy the consumption of information and will wonder about the past and the future. People will be the judge of the information they consume. Again, be it factual information in its entirety, be it a fire side story of a Sasquatch quality, or even a snippet of an actual event in the "History Guy's" opinion; the fact is people love stories true or false / real or fake. Fake or real; history has shown that those in power and powers to be have always underestimated the abilities of the people they wish to manipulate. Never underestimate or assume people (a person) as stupid, or your sheep. Try as "they;" (Gov., CEO's. Kings, Queens, Gang Leaders, Your Boss and even your Spouse) or anyone for that matter, to control another and he / she / they may find they are the one controlled. Give to them what they think they take, only to be turning the round table back on to "them." Never squeeze the soap for it will pop out of your hands. Collect seemingly harmless snippets of factual pieces of the puzzle and it will complete itself and offer up a story told to you, this is the story of history. This is the joy. If it repeats in different sources it may just be true. If you are unable to allow an open mind to multiple resources you are then a prisoner of your own way of thinking ... hence, your own sheep. Are you watching yourself on your home made movies? All that said; I have no clue on how my compliment and appreciation for the "History Guy's" work as to be interpret as something more than a thank you and I enjoy the show. "History Guy's" snippets of history have given me more joy and knowledge be it real / fake / accurate or not than I received from my lame education system (public school). Thanks to the powers that flock us when child sheep.... right? Take "TV" or any other means to convey as you will. I choose the "History Guy." I keep an open mind and I give nothing of myself other than time. Know that in the past, present and future can an event or said event be recorded as fact with 100% certainty. It's the games people play and poor communications that lead you here to give your opinion for all of history. How you consume "history" is yours to manipulate. Enjoy! Thanks for the response.
WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..
I remember when we only had one TV channel in the UK, and the excitement when colour TV came out. Banging the telly on the top to stop the frame sync from slipping was a daily ritual in most households, and people developed one arm longer than the other so they could adjust the various knobs on the back of the TV whilst still being able to see the screen.
As we sat around the fire Gorg stood and said " I will tell a vision I had last night in my sleep". Thank you History Guy for great history in small doses.
History Guy, Thank you for making 'television' worth watching!
Jeff R Growing up I was able only to get WHBF in Rock Island, Illinois,WOC in Davenport, Iowa and WQAD in Moline, Illinois
I was the remote control for my dad growing up as he would just yell, “Hey Kevin, come change the channel,”
I also remember the TV repair guy coming by to fix the set with his bag if vacuum tubes while my dad grumbled about how much it was going to cost.
My mom taking the tubes out and going to the corner drug store to check them on their tube tester. The tester was free to use and the new tubes were beneath the tester to buy. Made it much cheaper and easy to fix.
I loved those burnt out tubes...and throwing a rock at an old TV Tube was heaven.
We had an old console that we'd load into the back of our Tercel wagon (what seemed like) every week to take to the TV repairman.
My uncle was a ham radio operator. He provided us with our first TV around 1956 or so. We received three stations, the towers for which we could see from our house. The TV (B&W, of course) would work well for a couple of weeks after he visited, then gradually get worse and quit altogether after a few months. My uncle would visit, check the various tubes and usually find one that was dead (no glow) or "seemed weak" to him, open the trunk of his car to see what he had. Often he didn't have the same tube, but would think for a few moments and decide that "this one would probably work" and try it in place of the offending tube. Usually he was correct. The TV would work again, and the cycle would repeat. What amazed me most was how long and reliably the CRT worked. That one never gave out. My parents finally bought a new TV in the seventies, and it worked fine.
@@cliftondean4333 My late maternal grandfather was the same way. He got his ham license in the 1920s and worked for the military Evans Signal Lab until retirement as a GS-14. He was self-taught but had a "feel for things" that defies description, always brought his tool box with him when he visited and could fix anything, electronic or otherwise. He was a true man of the world, collected coins and stamps and was well-read on almost any subject. He died in 1974 and I will miss him forever.
I get it and I understand why you should be thankful for us viewers but at the end of the day it's us who should truly and seriously be thankful for you because we just have this dense collection of some of the coolest little pieces of history right at our fingertips that have been carefully curated for us to easily and quickly digest awesome information that can sometimes be useful and if it's not that useful it's definitely entertaining. So thank you dude!!!
And now we sit with a tv in our hand watching the history guy!
I finally packed my TV away about 3 months ago, everything I watch now is via my computer.
And yer, I'm old enough to remember a time that if you didn't get home in time for your favourite program... you completely missed it, no rewind, no on-demand, no way, no how! 😱 Though they would probably repeat it in a few months time, so that's ok... 😁
Yup...this channel is one of my favorites...I don't even watch regular tv anymore...love history.
Growing up in Alaska, 60’s & 70’s, we had only one channel. Not until we moved to the contiguous states did I discover that there were THREE channels!
Totally blew my mind 🤯
Thank you so much for creating a channel like this. You truly have a passion for what you do, which makes it fun for you and your audience. I am a fellow history buff, but simply wouldn't have the time to do all the research you do with everything else in my schedule. 🙂.
When, some decade or two from now, we look back and judge the "screen time" bloat of today, I believe that time spent with The History Guy will deserve to be remembered as time spent well.
Thank you!
I've had an antenna on the roof for many years now, but do remember the days when I was thee antenna(with tin-foil in hand). Back in the day I was the remote too. I can still hear the clunk of the channel changer.....lol Love the History Channel because it helps me remember.
Yep, I remember being my dad's remote control! I didn't have to go on the roof, but I did have to adjust the rabbit ears. After 5 minutes of messing with it you'd hear, "Right there! Perfect! Don't move!" LOL.
You seriously are one my favorite channels to watch. Great work! Thank you for all you do!
You fill in so much that other articles or channels leave out. Thank You very much for the post! 😊
Remember my dad taking the back off of the B & W 21” TV, removing all the tubes, carting them to a Pep Boys where he could use a tube tester, the errant tube was replaced, all put back together and viola! TV again. It seemed like it was an all too common problem. Ever try to open an i-Phone? LOL
Those must have been better times when such a relatively advanced and expensive product could be fixed so relatively easily and cheaply.
Opening iPhone is fairly easy (no glue, just screws and metal springs) and replacing bigger components is actually quite easy.
Jim M there are even RUclips vids you can watch that show you how to repair smart phones , tablets its easy as sorry
my last job was repairs and programming ptt radios. haven't opened one since! so complicated not sure i could repair one now. can latest ones be programmed by laptops?
Tube testers at the local store. A memory jolt! I did so many trips that I could tell when the tester needed testing!
I remember my brother and I being so excited one Christmas, our parents bought each of us our own 12” black and white tv’s for our bedroom. I still think that was the best thing I have ever gotten as a gift. It was a Montgomery Wards Airline brand and I watched every episode of Gilligan’s Island and F troop on it as well as every western they broadcast.
I can sing both of their theme songs.
Aren’t good parents wonderful? Byron’s parents gave their loved kids color TV’s that I’m sure was a struggle to afford. My parents bought our family of four kids Pong the first Christmas it came out, for the astronomical fee of $125! It was wonderful and we were the hit of the neighborhood, we had more friends that winter then we ever wanted!
I remember Wilton and egon (Larry Storch) who was also Mr WeatherBug from Tennessee Tuxedo
Sorry WeatherBy, darned autocorrect
My brain needs this channel. I'm constantly trying to find history I didn't know about previously and THG fills that need on a daily basis. Happy and proud to be one of the 6.1 million!
i enjoy learning about history and many different topics i may not know anything about or even that topic existing. and being told about an event or development of something like this makes it easier to remember info. and i love how he talks and his cadence. i love listening to people talk about a topic they thoroughly enjoy. so i wont be going anywhere but to the next video. thank you for learning and loving history and sharing it back with the rest of us. you are a good man, Charlie Brown!
I remember our old TV set in the 70s- it's cabinet was all wood and looked like a piece of some elegant furniture!
Early on in 1948 I remember one family having a commercial sold magnifying glass in the front of a TV and also does anyone remember Hotpoint TV's with a light area around the TV to make the picture look larger?
@@joerogers4227 , YUP. SURE DO!!!!!!, I" started" working on T.V. sets of that era
I do too...I DXed TV on one of those... used to get.. San Diego and Mexico from L A...
My father and grandfather built wooden TV cabinets for RCA in Monticello Indiana. They were furniture grade I order to merit higher sales price.
Yup!
Damn, RUclips is sharing my data!? My 6.1 million hours of History Guy viewing was assumed confidential!
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*"G O O D N E W S E V E R Y O N E!"*
Your shows are SO excellent! Both in execution and subject selection. And your appearance on the screen always brings a smile on my face. Like a visit of a favorite uncle. Thank you so very much!
I remember taking a bus ride with my dad in 1963 to buy our first TV. It was a big day in our house. He went all out and got the rabbit ears tv top antenna to. I think it was a 14" B&W. The first big thing I remember watching was a Mercury space launch. Romper room was one of the first kids shows I ever saw. When that lady said my name looking through the magic looking Glass, I lost my mind. Later that year I watched the funeral procession of JFK on that TV. When people ask,"where were you when that happened, I remember that TV, the bus ride to get it and my dad.
History Guy should have hundreds of millions of subscribers.
Sad times.
@Jacob Zondag We should all learn history to avoid repeating it.
One of the outstanding channels, THG, is so appreciated! Thank you, THG!!
"The tube is on the blink"....one of the horror sayings of my childhood :(
0:32 as my grandfather once said: "Back in my day we had two channels ON and OFF"
Jokes aside my great uncle had two broken TVs he used. He got them from the landfill. He had one stacked upon the other. One provided the sound and the other one gave him the black and white picture.
When our cable company scrambled some channels, I discovered the sound was at one end of the fine tuning while the picture was at the other. Simple, use a little portable set for the sound, adjust the main set for the least bad picture! Free pay channel!
That is quite an incredible story, but I believe it. Some people have a talent to try and successfully solve problems.
@@luislaplume8261 I remember that if i got it right enough, the picture was good enough to watch, but was drifting from color to B/W. But hey, I got to watch free HBO!
I love to watch historical documentaries. Ever since Discovery, TLC, and History channel went full reality TV shows, I stop watching TV. I appreciate channels like yours to watch historical documentaries.
One of the best channels on RUclips. Stories are always interesting. You’re well done and well written so any success you’ve had with your channel or well-deserved.
Thanks so much for this. While there have been countless news, retrospectives, and documentaries about the history of televised content, I don't know of many shows on television about the invention and development OF television itself. This is arguably the most important invention of the 20th, or at least in the top 3, in that it irreversibly changed the way we all perceive history and culture.
We commonly mention Farnsworth as the inventor of TV, leaving out that certain complex inventions like it merge a lot of different interdependent technologies.
I went to school just to see how T.V, works. this blows my mind.
When my great-grandfather passed away in the 1950's, my grandmother inherited his tv. My Mom remembers being only apartment in her neighborhood to have two tv sets in their home - a rarity for the late 1950's.
Honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
@@4jp If one is rich enough, one can.
@@4jp .....nice reference to "Back to the Future".......
@@4jp "what's a rerun?" 😉
This man is my fix that I have missed dearly since The History Channel went off message...Thank You so very much
I did enjoy the results of your research. I grew up in the 50s .. 60s & 70s, so your 'broadcast' was fresh in my memory.
Another great episode, Lance. It is easy to see why your channel is so popular, as it's entertaining and informative.
I hadnt expected to actually enjoy your show and continue watching it so often, you don't have the cheesy fake persona that feels forced like many channels and your doing a good job.
I was expecting to hear in the conclusion “And that’s history that deserves to be remembered.” It left the presentation unresolved so I thought I’d help by writing it.
One of the best channels is right here at THG TV. I too, remember the big three channels (ABC, NBC, CBS) along with about 3 or 4 local stations on our "rabbit ears" antenna TV.
I also remember going onto the roof with my dad to install the rooftop antenna to replace the positionally sensitive rabbit ears.
With the rooftop antenna, the wind would often knock it out of position and I would have to scurry up the roof to get it repositioned. Often that meant yelling from someone below who would run back and forth into the house to report when the picture was right 😂
It's cool to see my mom's cousin's (James Avati) statue of Farnsworth in this video. I was at the Capitol when it was unveiled back in the early 90's.
I can remember being sent outside to rotate the antenna pole, all the while listening for the shout, ok that's good enough.
Me too! Ha ha funny thing is I'm bact to it now. Quit cable and have an antenna mounted in the attic. But now I have a high tec rotater motor and can get 90 + channels over the air. Man my kids are missing out on the fun of me hollering " hold it there"!
@Bob G
You two were living in the stone age. My antenna pole had a motor and a dial to turn.
@@richardstra9011 but theirs was an "intelligent" rotator system :)
Back in the late'50s and early '60s, we had a high tech, for that time TV tower that would turn the antenna via an indoor electronic box. I lived in Richmond, Indiana right on the Ohio-Indiana line. We got most of our TV from Dayton, Ohio if the antenna was aimed eastward. Aiming it westward we got programming from Indianapolis. During the NFL season, we got Cleveland Browns games (when they were in their heyday) No Indianapolis Colts in those days-aiming west, we got Chicago Bears and GreenBay Packers games.
@@Miklos82 Now the NFL charges you mega bucks to be able to see "out of market" games with their NFL Ticket package. If you owned a bar and showed your customers that, pick and choose from the three markets you could see on your antenna, they would get you for public display copyright infringement to a viewing audience. They should be glad your watching their games and a bunch of other people are interested at the same time. Now they charge those bars and restaurants even higher fees than the home viewers of the NFL Ticket. Isn't it a great time we are in? So much more choice, but charged for every choice you make, but restricted to their packages they choose to bundle together. We still don't have a la carte, and seems we will never have true a la carte choice in the matter.
6.1 million hours?! That's 11 lifetimes assuming an 80 year life!
If you dont sleep 😉
Chris Dykstra ..You tube is probably lying...lol..
getredytagetredy why would they?
How many times to the moon 🌝 is that?
Congratulations. Let's assume 24 million viewers watch one 15 minute segment: 6.1 million hours.
Watched this one a second time. Still well done! Hurrah for the History Guy!
I was a history major in college, and thrived on it! I love your “snippets”. Keep going!
that was excellent. nostalgia just covered me like a warm blanket.
Same here.
If you cover yourself with a warm blanket won't you smother?
About twenty- five years ago, one of my favorite programs was Connections with James Burke. I loved it because of the connections of History and Science tied together. If the History Guy had been a program back then, I'd of loved it too. You do a fantastic job making history interesting. One of the very best things on the internet!
Connections ...what a cool show it was ....
As a child I had 4 channels available to watch - ABC, CBS, NBC, and independent WGN here in Chicago. WGN was owned by the Chicago Tribune newspaper. We lived in an apartment building and had a roof antenna hooked to the TV set. Like you I am amazed at all the changes that have happened. That TV shown at 8:20 could pass for the one I watched TV on if only it was a blond cabinet Sentinal TV made in Evanston, Illinois and sold by Marshall Field, sitting on that wrought iron stand BTW I celebrated my 75th birthday last month.
Congratulations, happy birthday!
We had the first Cablevision on our block in Iowa 1979, and WGN was one of the offerings. They showed legendary shows like the our gang shorts and the original flash gordon. Great stuff.
Certainly the most informative video history I’ve ever seen. Extremely well prepared and presented, History Guy! Thank you!
You should devote a whole episode to Philo Farnsworth. He was a really interesting guy.
He's from here in Idaho. It has been said that he got his idea from observing the furrows created by his plow in a potato field.
The whole conflict between Filo Farnsworth and David Sarnoff is fascinating!
There is a show that tells the tails , it's called
" Futurama "
About 10 minutes from me is the house he lived in while he operated Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951. Near the street is a sign describing his accomplishment with TV and I know the family currently living there who really love the house. This Wikipedia page has an image of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth#Fort_Wayne_factory_razing,_residence_history
When I was a kid in the '70's, out TV was a huge piece of furniture with real walnut trim and a remote with actual mechanical buttons that physically made the channel knob turn with this heavy clunk-clunk-clunk noise. If I watched TV after my parents went to bed, I couldn't use the remote lol.
Now, I watch everything on a laptop the size of one of those business-size padded shipping envelopes, and everything I watch is on a streaming service or here on YT.
Yeah i still remember my family's TV when i was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. It was literally a fancy piece of wooden furniture with a TV built into the middle and no remote. That thing had to weigh a ton. I remember most families had something similar and when they got a new TV they just set it on top of the old one lol!
They had a remote control in the 50s that was essentially a flashlight with a momentary switch that was pointed towards one of the corners of the screen depending on what you wanted it to do. I have wanted a working version for years.
Hey Glenn.HDMI it to a 40" screen , no brainer
No remote but I remember turning the channel knob quietly late at night or early Saturday morning instead of fast, that machine gun jundt jundt jundt sound to go half way around from 6 to 13!
I do enjoy this channel, as it were & showing my age.
I remember the few channels we got when I was a kid in north central Indiana. And, that I was able to get 0 channels when I lived in New Mexico as a young adult. Now, I have dish, antenna, online, and other sources with countless "channels"!! It is truly amazing!
Thank you for bringing such great content to this media!!
my grandpa was a repair man.mit grad in the 30's.he always fixed our huge tube style tv.that tv still worked when i threw it away in2006.ty for the video explaning how they worked.