Focus on... The Power of Television | BAFTA
Curated from: bafta.org
Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:
4 ideas
·174 reads
1
Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
The Power Of Television
Invented in 1926 by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, the Television has been an incredible, long-lasting creation, having the power to take us to wonderful places where we can experience news, entertainment, sports and real or fictional stories of all kinds.
The first transmission was broadcast by Baird, who later also invented the first colour television.
7
77 reads
Television: A Window To The World
This fantastic invention has made it possible for millions of people to watch the moon landing, Olympic games, the Royal Wedding, the World Cup, primetime sitcoms like Dallas or Seinfeld, and more recently the Netflix series Bodyguard.
Television has the power to trigger our imagination, encourage learning, arouse curiosity and bind people together. It is the world's common room where shared memories are broadcast.
7
22 reads
TV: The Home Of Many Firsts
Apart from man landing on the moon for the first time in 1969, Television has been a home of many events and first-time broadcasts.
The first interracial kiss was shown in 1968 in a Star Trek (The Original Series) episode. The TV has made us living witnesses to ground-breaking news events like the Iranian embassy siege or the 9/11 attacks.
7
31 reads
TV: The Conversation Starter
As TV becomes unimaginably diverse, wild and daring due to the advent of internet giants and on-demand services, it has also become social.
Watercooler talks have more often than not been based on what a particular sports event, news or sitcom was on TV the day before. Important stories usually kick start great conversations and this effect has been amplified with the advent of social media, particularly Twitter.
7
44 reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
Vincent Robin's ideas are part of this journey:
Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to set achievable goals
How to manage time for personal and professional life
How to avoid distractions
Related collections
Similar ideas
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates