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Finding reliable and conclusive data proved EXTREMELY difficult when researching this part of the website.
There was a lot of sources which would for example only focus on the top brands for one countr, or provide little _____.
Due to its ability to scan the internet 1000s of times faster than me or you, AI LLM tools were used here to construct a dataset.

They were each given the prompt:

"Give me the top 10 tv manufacturers per decade from the 1950s until today"

&

"Does this represent them globally as best as possible?"

Key:

These AI tools are currently 3 of the best performing Large Language Models available for free public use, see here,
which is why I used them.

This data is being measured using a points system
with the line thickness being based on where the country ranked across the whole timescale

Based on the rankings per decade, I looked up the country origin for each company and awarded 1 to 10 points according to the reverse rankings of each decade
(so 1st place gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9 etc.)

Due to Gemini's lack of clarity, I didn't include it when assigning certain country's points.
However if it took up a space in between 2 named brands, scores would be assigned as if there was a company there.
I didn't include them because I was looking for clear answers, not anything vague - this pertains to the potential hallucinations of ai data.

Explaining the trends

One of the flaws of using AI is that sources may not be clear and it may hallucinate results,
therefore I did some independent research to explain the trends:

🇺🇸 The USA was a leading force in the entertainment industry, especially after the post-war boom, explaining its early dominance

🇯🇵 Japan also went through its own economic boom during the 1980s and became a rising economic threat to america.
This time period was known as 'the Japanese Miracle' and presented Japan with great, rapid success until the 1990s

🇰🇷 Similar to the rise of Japan, South Korea focused heavily on exporting goods over imports to grow their economy,
with a focus on big companies (Chaebol's) and vertical integration to build them into current day conglomerates.

🇨🇳 Improvements in productivity and greater capital investment in materials has been improving China's growth since 1978.

🇬🇧The UK was also important for broadcasting during the mid 1950s, this was with the BBC and due to the Queen's coronation.
This explains its small spike on Gemini's graph.

🇳🇱 Netherlands' Phillips had always been consistently innovating which may be why they've seperated themselves from the European market

🇩🇪🇮🇹 European Countries 🇨🇦 Couldn't find anything signifcant but the TV station CFCF-TV was granted a license to privately broadcast programs

What else can be drawn from this?

Looking at the dataset, one consistency is that Japan and America have had a major fall off, with China and South Korea rising up.

These have both overtaken Japan and the USA more recently, but they seem like they're on track to become the next big 2 tech giants in the future

Perhaps they'd have a similar heights to what we see with Japan and the USA?

References:

Japan

The Dark Side of Japan: The Lost Decade
HISTORY OF TELEVISION PRODUCTION IN JAPAN

USA

What role did television play in shaping 1960s American culture

South Korea

How South Korea got Crazy Rich
Market Focus: South Korea

China

Why is China Growing so fast

UK

The 1950s

Netherlands

More than a century of innovation and entrepreneurship

European Countries

Is Europe losing the innovation race?

Canada

A Short History of Canadian Television and Technology

My findings

Though AI was used to find the majority of the data, I also gathered some limited data on the most popular companies across the decades.

Something I didn't have the AI consider was the different devices we watch cartoons on.
Due to the internet, we can now access cartoons on phones/tablets/games consoles and virtually any other computer system.

With this in mind, from the 1990s onwards I looked at companies with the biggest market share within the tech industry as a whole, not just TVs.

The data gathered by the AIs only show the top brands throughout time, but
TVs and devices as we know it wouldn't be able to exist
without the innovations of great individuals throughout time.

This section focuses on acknowledging these innovations and awarding bonus points to each country

(click this guy)