Media Timeline

1665- The Oxford Gazette was the first newspaper in Britain
1702- The Daily Courant was the first daily newspaper
1915- The Sunday Pictorial was first published and would become The Daily Mirror
1922- The BBC was established
1928- The first animated film with sound was released by Disney
1936- The first television broadcast
1939- The first FM radio station was created
1936- The first colored advertisement appears in the Glasgow daily record
1946- The blue network, part of NBC became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
1950- Small portable radios were invented so they could be carried around
1952- The number TVs in households grew to 20 million
1953- The general council of press is established
1953- Colour broadcasting becomes available in America for the first time
1960- TV overtakes newspapers as a source for information
1964- The Sun is created
1969- The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is created in America
1971- The standard time for commercials goes from 60 to 30 seconds
1980- CNN is the first 24 hour news coverage channel
1981- MTV starts broadcasting
1986- The Independent is the first newspaper without a political affiliation
1993- 98% of US houses had at least one TV set
1995- Disney's Toy story is the first full feature length film to be produced using only computer generated imagery
1996- Fox starts broadcasting in the US
1996- The satellite dish was the most sold electrical product
2000- DVD becomes more popular than ever before
2009- Avatar was the first film to be shot entirely using motion capture technology