Title: Quadruplex videotape
Content: It was only marketed in Europe, and was not sold in the U.S. CBS was the first television network to use 2-inch quad videotape, using it for a West Coast delay of "Douglas Edwards and the News" on November 30, 1956. The CBS show "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" on December 24, 1956 became the first entertainment program to be broadcast live to the nation from New York and taped for a time-delayed rebroadcast in the Pacific Time Zone. On January 22, 1957, the NBC game show "Truth or Consequences", produced in Hollywood, became the first program to be broadcast in

Title: History of television
Content: were 40 million radios in the U.S., there were about 44,000 television sets (with probably 30,000 in the New York area). Regular network television broadcasts began on NBC on a three-station network linking New York with the Capital District and Philadelphia in 1944; on the DuMont Television Network in 1946, and on CBS and ABC in 1948. Following the rapid rise of television after the war, the Federal Communications Commission was flooded with applications for television station licenses. With more applications than available television channels, the FCC ordered a freeze on processing station applications in 1948 that remained in effect

Title: Television in the United States
Content: and public-interest programming. During the early years of commercial television, the FCC permitted a single company to own a maximum of five television stations nationwide (later raised to seven stations in 1984 and then to twelve in 1992), although until the 1960s, very few companies outside of the major broadcast networks owned multiple stations. Since a change to its media ownership regulations in 1999 that counted television station ownership maximums by a national market percentage rather than by the number of stations that could be allowed in their portfolio, FCC rules mandate that the total number of television stations owned

Title: UHF television broadcasting
Content: number of TV channels being available to cover all of the United States. With 106 VHF stations broadcasting by the end of the 1940s in the U.S., interference arose due to overcrowding in densely populated areas such as the eastern mid-Atlantic states. In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission stopped accepting applications for new stations (a freeze that lasted until 1952) in order to address questions such as the allocation of additional channel frequencies, and also the selection of a color television. Allocating more of the VHF band (30 to 300 MHz) by moving existing radio communication users off seemed to

Title: CBS
Content: CBS system because it was incompatible with RCA's; that, and the fact that CBS had moved to secure many UHF, not VHF, television licenses, left CBS flatfooted in the early television age. In 1946, only 6,000 television sets were in operation, most in greater New York City where there were already three stations; by 1949, the number had increased to 3 million sets, and by 1951, had risen to 12 million. 64 American cities had television stations, though most of them only had one. Radio continued to be the backbone of the company, at least in the "early" 1950s, but

Question: Between 1952 and 1954 did the number of TV stations in the USA double, triple or quadruple?
Answer: Triple