Started off in 1891 where Edison company made a machine where one person at a time could watch a film
1905 - No sound in cinema, mainly accompanied by piano
1909 - first uk cinema built
1932 - first film festival held in Venice (oldest film festival still running)
1952 - A research invented the first video tape recorded
1977 - North America first VHS was introduced
1985 - Blockbuster founded
1995 - digital disc was introduced
Music Distribution:
1473 first machine printed music, sheet music allowed anyone to play the piece
1877 Record player called phonograph
1930s Vinyl records
1970s cassette tapes
1981 CD ABBA’s The visitors became the first popular CD
Napster ,1999, online sharing and downloading music files
2003 Apple iTunes Store, allowing music to be distributed legally
2008 Spotify, allows users to create music playlist and download music offline
YouTube allows users to watch and download videos
Newspapers:
1933 American news papers wanted to have news off the radio
1967 started to use computers to research news stories
1991 BBC news site was launched
2010 BBC news app was launched on iPhone and iPad
2014 online news stories were more popular online than newspapers
News papers transformed from newspapers to online
News papers also transformed from broad sheets to more compact/smaller
News papers then transformed from black and white to colour
Radio and audio:
1888 Hertz detects and producers radio waves
1900 Reginald Fessenden made a weak transmission over the air waves
1904 first transmission of music
1906 first radio program of music and voice is broadcasted in the US
1920s Commercial radio broadcasting began
1935 FM radio is born but only in mono
1952 SONY offers a miniature transistor radio. This is one of the first mass produced consumer AM/FM
1980s A lot of pirate radio programs
2000 Tuned In app came out
2005 Internet radio came out
2010 Pure launched their first interactive DAB radio
2018 Radio is now online, on demand and on social media such as Facebook
Animation:
1830s Zoetrope first known animation
1906 first stop motion animation called Humorous Phases of funny faces
1914 Gertie the dinosaur first fluid sense of movement and key frame animation
1928 Key frame animation Steamboat Willie from Disney, properly synced audio and sound effects
Snow white first rotoscoping
1960 Flintstones first cartoon series to be released and shown on primetime tv in America
The adventures of Andre and Wally B, first fully CGI animated film
1987 The Simpsons, longest running TV animation
1995 CGI Toy Story
From research I've found that technology has changed a lot. For instance, people no longer sit at set times to watch TV they now watch it whenever and wherever thanks to TV on demand.