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History of Television

In the early 1920's the first mechanical television was invented and sold to the public by Charles Jenkins. June 25th 1951 was the date when the first mechanical television was released to the public. In May 1954 the fist all-electronic colour Television set was sold to the public. 1990 was the year where Hi-Def was introduced and 5 years later the Telecommunications Act replaced the old 1934 laws.

What is Ofcom?

Ofcom is a communication regulator that regulates; TV, Radio, Video on demand, telecoms, phones, postal services and the airwaves that wireless devices use.

An example of what they regulate

Ofcom sets down lots of rules that TV and Radio broadcasters have to follow to unsure that children are not subject to unsuitable content. One rule that the say broadcasters have to follow is that after 9PM content that maybe unsuitable for children can be shown. This is because this is the time when most young people go to bed and it allows broadcasters to still put up content that would be allowed to be aired if this rule was not put in place. Anything that children could copy; swears, violence and harmful behaviour is regulated, as you can see this is the same sort of thing that the ASA does to protect children.

Difference between print and broadcasts

When it comes to print and broadcasts, print is always the place you have to go to fro more information. This is because broadcasts are aimed towards everyone, so the language they use and the amount of topics covered has to be significantly reduced. However with print articles can go into much more detail and can use must more complex words, this is because people who decide to read article want to know what is going on and does not just want to find out the bits and pieces.

This is what one of the articles looks like on the telegraph, you can clearly see that their over view covers a lot of things that are only going to be cover more in-depth further on in the article. The language used is also very complex and more sophisticated. The whole article is about 800 words long and tell the reader almost everything that they might want to know. 

Difference between Radio and TV

Radio nowadays is something that people use to have on in the background when they are doing activities, they are less likely to but fully immersed in the content compared to TV. Another massive difference between them is that radio isn't visual, everything is all audio based, this means that when something is being happening in the studio, like a reaction to news has to be portrayed to the audience in the different way than it would with TV. Radio also allows the audience to use their imagination and imagine what may be happening in the studio so a more expansive vocabulary can be used.