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Great Britain and America were the first countries to experiment with television in the 1930s and 40s.  The three big American TV ABC, CBS and ABC were founded after World War II. They brought television to a growing in the 1950s.


Television became the major of information. In 1960 the first TV in history was broadcast between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Television also influenced the way people thought about the in Vietnam.

In the 1980s the of America’s big TV stations was broken. New networks started news, sports and music around the clock. CNN, an all-news network, became famous for its of the Gulf War.


In the last decade TV channels focused on programs and reality shows. Among the most are Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Survivor.