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The year 1926 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1926. Global television events. Month Day
May 11 – On May 11, 1926, AT&T centralized its radio operations into a new subsidiary known as the Broadcasting Company of America (BCA). [1] Although not widely known at the time, this was done in anticipation of selling the radio network, the result of a management decision that the radio operations were incompatible with the company's primary role as the leading U.S. supplier of telephone ...
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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Fran Warren, popular singer (d. 2013) March 5 – Joan Shawlee, actress (d. 1987) March 6 – Alan Greenspan, economist; March 8 – Dick Teed, Major League Baseball player (d. 2014) March 9 – Joe Franklin, radio, television personality (d. 2015) March 11. Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990) Thomas Starzl, American ...