[rollei_list] Re: OT: The History of Television
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:53:37 -0400
The urban legend was or is that TV was a WWII German invention and that it
started over there.
I'm glad I know this now.
Mark William Rabiner
> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:49:54 -0400
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] OT: The History of Television
>
> It was on this date in 1927 that then-Secretary
> of Commerce Herbert Hoover made the first
> television broadcast by a political leader. I
> suspect that this was from W3XK in Wheaton,
> Maryland, though the blurb in the morning paper did not mention this.
>
> Of course, by that time, Baird in the UK had
> already made a transatlantic TV broadcast and
> also one from shore to ship. In 1929, Baird
> broadcast the first-ever TV interview, the victim
> being a Miss Peggy O'Neil from Buffalo, New York,
> an actress and singer. (Richard, you've just
> gotten the ammunition to win that next trivia
> contest at The White Hart -- or is Gavagan's Bar you frequent?)
>
> In 1936, the Don Lee System began broadcasting
> high definition TV from W6XAO (later, KTSL) in
> LA. THAT HDTV was a shift from the East Coast
> standard of 48 lines to a staggering 240
> lines. A month later, NBC went to 343 lines in
> its New York broadcasts. The Federal
> Communications Commission did not begin to really
> regulate TV until 1941 when it issued its first
> set of engineering standards for the new
> medium. During WW2, there were 5,000 TV sets in
> all of the US, and most Wartime broadcasts were
> training flicks for air-raid wardens and the like.
>
> Germany broadcast the 1936 Olympics from both Berlin and Hamburg.
>
> The BBC began scheduled broadcasting from
> Alexandra Palace in London on 2 NOV 1936, giving
> BBC One the premier place in broadcast
> history. Broadcasting was suspended on 3 SEP
> 1939 upon the outbreak of WWII. They had been
> running a Mickey Mouse cartoon and simply went
> off the air in the middle of the film. When they
> went back on the air on 7 JUN 1945, they picked
> up at the precise moment where they had cut off
> six years earlier. The Brits had 15,000 TV sets
> in 1939, three times as many as were in the US,
> with this difference: almost all US sets were in
> homes, while almost all UK sets were in pubs or
> restaurants. Thus, TV had a deeper impact in the
> UK in those Prewar years than it did in the US.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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