Broadcast television or terrestrial television was the first way that people experienced TV. The first broadcast in 1930 sent a rush of excitement rippling throughout America. In the early years the only things you could watch was BBC which aired a small variety of TV shows. These early programs were nothing like what we see on today’s television, the picture was extremely grainy and hard to make out. The first real TV shows started airing in the 1950s with much clearer picture and sound. Terrestrial television spread like wildfire throughout almost the entire world within just 15 years of the first broadcast. It made its way from country to country with alarming speed. Once it had fully established itself as a part of society people started to wonder: “When will it get better?” and then, in the 1951, it did. The first color program played on five channels broadcasted throughout New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. It was an hour long production by CBS. At first the color programs were not compatible with the black and white television sets causing a mild uproar, but that was quickly solved by the RCA who produced an adaptor of sorts. Unfortunately after all that progress on the creation of color TV, production came to a standstill due to a ban on the manufacturing of color technology per request of Charles E. Wilson. The ban was put in place due to low metal resources and was not lifted for two years. As soon as the ban was lifted the FCC approved a simplified technology that was compatible with every TV, and with that color television was officially part of our reality. Its assent to becoming the global standard was not immediate however. For the next ten years terrestrial television was stuck in limbo between black and white and color until finally in 1965 networks began to see color TV pulled in higher ratings and more and more customers began to request it. The invention of television ushered in a new era of human life, for now it was possible to get lost watching things happen behind a glass screen, only to be interrupted by brief ads and commercials which were the foundation of modern day consumerism. By allowing everyone in the country to consume the same media, TV brought about a national culture in a way radio never could, it also set the stage for the century of intense technological progress to come.