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The hardware and infrastructure of over-the-air and cable broadcast delivery and reception, from the vacuum tube through digital broadcast recording. Belongs here: broadcast transmission and reception devices such as the vacuum tube, communications satellite, transistor radio, teleprompter and teletext, and cable and recording technology such as cable television infrastructure, the videocassette recorder, digital video recorder, chroma key equipment and videotape as a recording medium. Does not belong here: the receiving screen technology itself, grouped under television technology, or cinema projection and capture technology, grouped under cinema and projection technology.

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1920 1
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Broadcasting began with AM radio, which became popular around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers.
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