The predecessor of the Directors Guild of America became one with the Radio and Television Directors Guild.
=== North America ===In the United States guilds exist in several fields
Also, in the 1940s and throughout the 1950s, during the early rapid growth of television programming and television set ownership in the United States, another slang term became widely used in that period and continues to be used today to distinguish productions originally created for broadcast on television from films developed for presentation in movie theaters

