Prior to electric televisions, we had mechanical televisions. These early televisions started appearing in the early 1800s. They involved mechanically scanning images then transmitting those images onto a screen. Compared to electronic televisions, they were extremely rudimentary. One of the first mechanical televisions used a rotating disk with holes arranged in a spiral pattern. This device was created independently by two inventors: Scottish inventor John Logie Baird and American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins. Both devices were invented in the early 1920s. Prior to these two inventors, German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow had developed the first mechanical television. That device sent images through wires using a rotating metal disk. Instead of calling the device a television, however, Nipkow called it an “electric telescope”. The device had 18 lines of resolution. In 1907, two inventors – Russian Boris Rosing and English A.A. Campbell-Swinton – combined a cathode ray tube with a mechanical scanning system to create a totally new television system. Ultimately, the early efforts of these inventors would lead to the world’s first electrical television a few years later.
The world’s first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14. Starting in high school, he began to think of a system that could capture moving images, transform those images into code, then move those images along radio waves to different devices. Farnsworth was miles ahead of any mechanical television system invented to-date. Farnsworth’s system captured moving images using a beam of electrons (basically, a primitive camera). The first image ever transmitted by television was a simple line. Later, Farnsworth would famously transmit a dollar sign using his television after a prospective investor asked “When are we going to see some dollars in this thing, Farnsworth?” Between 1926 and 1931, mechanical television inventors continued to tweak and test their creations. However, they were all doomed to be obsolete in comparison to modern electrical televisions: by 1934, all TVs had been converted into the electronic system.
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| James Lindenberg, the Father of Philippine Television who founded Bolinao Electronics, which made transmitters and radios, in 1946 and DZAQ-TV on 1953 |
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Television in the early 50s wasn’t the high profit business it is now. While Tony Quirino (a judge in the post-war People’s Court) and James Lindenberg (an American ex-GI and electrical engineer) built Alto Broadcasting System with big dreams and high hopes, running a TV station soon revealed it needed really deep pockets and a more exacting manager who’s also a visionary. Good thing Don Eugenio Lopez was on the lookout to expand his media empire. In this fourth of a series of excerpts from the book Kapitan: Geny Lopez and the Making of ABS-CBN, author Raul Rodrigo details the closed-door negotiations — one even happened in the comforts of a restroom — that led to ABS merging with CBN.
In the Philippines, Television in the early 50s wasn’t the high profit business it is now. While Tony Quirino (a judge in the post-war People’s Court) and James Lindenberg (an American ex-GI and electrical engineer) built Alto Broadcasting System with big dreams and high hopes, running a TV station soon revealed it needed really deep pockets and a more exacting manager who’s also a visionary. Good thing Don Eugenio Lopez was on the lookout to expand his media empire. In this fourth of a series of excerpts from the book Kapitan: Geny Lopez and the Making of ABS-CBN, author Raul Rodrigo details the closed-door negotiations — one even happened in the comforts of a restroom — that led to ABS merging with CBN.
CBN's success in radio was not enough for Don Eugenio. In January 1957, only three months after CBN opened, Don Eugenio told Geny to own a TV station.
So father and son made an act of faith: they would build a TV network believing that sooner or later the audience would come. And rather than start a CBN TV network from scratch, the Lopezes tried to hedge their bets. By buying ABS, they would get the benefit of ABS's experience in TV and market presence. Acquiring the TV experience of people like Jim Lindenberg, Slim Chaney and Millie Logarta was going to be expensive, but the cost of NOT acquiring this expertise would be more expensive still. If they won the bidding, ABS TV would be the springboard for launching CBN TV.
Source: ABS-CBN News
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