Pub. date: 2009 | Online Pub. Date: December 16, 2009 | DOI:
10.4135/9781412972048 | Print ISBN: 9780761929574 | Online ISBN:
9781412972048| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this
encyclopedia Film in Television News Robin A. Larsen Until the
American commercial television networks introduced videotape
recording in 1956, they produced news only live or on film. They
aired live, film, and videotape news reports until 1978, when
film was dropped. Televised film news first appeared in late
1936 in England with the launching of the BBC's London
Television Service. Three years later, in 1939, NBC/RCA
introduced U.S. television at the New York World's Fair. After
World War II, in 1946, four networks (ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC)
began broadcasting daily 15-minute filmed news magazine programs
from their New York flagship stations. Coverage of political
party conventions and presidential elections followed in 1948.
To capture televised images on film, 16mm and 35mm kinescope
cameras especially designed for the pu