... and 'social' where society has a direct link with the technological outcomes that have always been intertwined throughout history. With the public mass-viewing broadcast of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II broadcasters could see the true transmission potential that they had in their grasp and I believe that this event could have also been dubbed 'the coronation of the television' because "public appetite is insatiable and our activities must be extended and the standard of programmes continually improved at all costs" (Briggs; 1995, p. 209). The essence of the television began in the early nineteenth century with the development of the telephone and the radio; then came cinema and now the convergence of all of these have created innovative new technologies such as digital/interactive forms of television and the internet on computers as quoted by Seiter, "The technologies of broadcast television and of computers are becoming increasingly intertwined...television sets and ...

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