After studying this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Discuss the development of television from its invention to HDTV today.

2. Explain how cable and satellite television, recorders such as VCRs and DVRs, and the adoption of digital television have transformed the television industry.

3. Discuss the issue of racial and ethnic diversity on television.

4. Identify three key reasons why viewers watch television.

5. Discuss the problem of broadcast decency, using examples.

6. Explain how streaming video services are changing TV in the twenty-first century.