| 1971 |
 Chronomedia index
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| January 2 |
Cigarette advertising ban begins on US television, deferred for one day because
of the Super Bowl broadcasts the previous day. CBS and ABC networks say the
ban has resulted in a 50 per cent drop in advertising revenue. Lost revenue is
independently estimated at $220m. Under the Fairness Doctrine, anti-smoking
advertising is also removed from the air. |
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| January 3, 11:00 |
First UK Open University
broadcast—Introduction to Mathematics. Regular programmes begin a week later. |
à 1973 |
| January 18 |
CRTC regulation comes into force requiring 30 per
cent of music played on AM radio stations in Canada to be Canadian. |
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| February 1 |
UK radio only receiving licence abolished; BBC funding now comes entirely from
television licence fees. |
â July 1
Radio licence fee |
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Radio Monte Carlo International begins broadcasting pop music programmes to the UK after
midnight on Fridays to Sundays, soon extended to seven nights week, but the
scheme is abandoned after three months due to lack of revenue. |
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| March 29 |
UK government White Paper An Alternative Service of Broadcasting outlines plans for
a network of 60 commercial local radio stations. |
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| April 19-23 |
First International Cartridge TV, Videocassette and Videodisc Conference (VIDCA)
organised by American Billboard publications and attended by over 600
commercial representatives is held at Cannes, France. |
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| May |
Associated Newspaper’s UK newspaper Daily Sketch
is merged into its stablemate Daily Mail, which relaunches as a tabloid. |
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| July 1 |
UK television licence fee is increased by £1 to £7 monochrome
and £12 colour. |
à 1975 |
| September 5 |
Canada's first French-language private television network, Les Télédiffuseurs
Associés, opens with member stations in Montréal, Québec City and Chicoutimi. |
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| October 1 |
Disneyworld amusement theme park opens in Florida. |
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| October |
Sony, Matsushita and JVC announce 3/4-inch U-matic cassette format for colour video recording. |
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| October 26 |
JVC announces its first U-format video recorders. |
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| October 28 |
First British satellite, Prospero, is launched. |
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| November 8 |
All testimony in McCall v. Clemens at Erie County Court of Common Pleas in US is
pre-recorded on videotape. |
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| November 29 |
Corruption at ORTF, the French state-controlled broadcasting
monopoly, is exposed by the chairman of the Senate Finance Commission on Information, André Diligent. |
à 1974 |
| December 23 |
CBS announces its withdrawal from the EVR Partnership. |
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| December |
Sterling Communications’ Manhattan Cable and systems on Long Island lose $2.5m during the year. |
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UK’s new National Film School is established at Beaconsfield Studios, which are bought for
£225,000. |
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| l |
This is the first year since 1949 when no country
establishes a television service, showing the extent to which the medium has now spread. |
Television start dates |
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Matsushita begins work on a high definition television (HDTV) monitor for NHK. |
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| l |
Australian Film Development Corporation is established. |
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First feature film in Upper Volta (=Burkina Faso): Le Sang des Parias, directed by
Mamadou Djimkola. |
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JVC markets the U-format video system based on Sony’s three-quarter-inch standard. |
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| l |
Committee of representatives from Ampex, EECO, Advertel
and Central Dynamics meet and agree to adopt a standard electronic edge
numbering system for computerised video editing (implemented April 1975). |
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| l |
Computer technology is first applied to video editing by CMX Inc. of the US. |
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| l |
Electronic Kitchen opens in New York as first permanent space to provide screening of
new video work. |
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| l |
National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures and National Council of Churches’
Broadcasting and Film Commission withdraw support from MPAA film rating system. |
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| l |
Dennis Gabor receives the Nobel Prize for Physics in
recognition of his work on lasers and holography. |
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First brain scanner is installed at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, Wimbledon, London.
Designed by Geoffrey Newbold Hounsfield at EMI, commercial production of the device begins in 1972 and
leads to sales of 700 units at £200,000 each in its first five years. |
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FCC relaxes regulations limiting cable television in the US. |
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Cigarette advertising is banned on UK radio. |
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| l |
Partnership between Time Inc and Charles Dolan, Sterling Communications—which operates
the New York City cable system—loses $2.5m, according to the New York Times. Time's investment
is in return for a growing pile of convertible debentures. |
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| l |
Dolby noise reduction is first used for a feature film soundtrack: Stanley
Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. |
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| l |
NBC Mystery Movie slot rotates three 90-minute series: Columbo, McCloud
and McMillan and Wife. |
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| l |
UK has 1.56m homes connected to cable and 628,000 on MATV (master antenna television)
systems; cable penetration is 9.4 per cent of all TV homes. |
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| l |
Intel develops the microprocessor, reducing electronic circuitry to a single 'chip'.
Measuring 12mm square, it has 12 times more power than the entire
Eniac computer of 1945. |
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Walt Disney Company opens its second US theme park, Walt Disney World, near Orlando,
Florida on a 27,000-acre site. |
à 1982 |
