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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.
Television series debuts by country and year (107 C) 0–9. 1931 television series debuts (1 C) 1932 television series debuts (1 C) 1936 television series debuts (1 C)
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
By the time electronic television matured in the late 1930s, some more varied experimental programs, including live sportscasts and some game shows (such as the CBS Television Quiz and Truth or Consequences), were appearing; most television service was suspended beginning in 1942 because of World War II. The decade-long period of new ...
The big band remote, for the most part, did not survive (a victim of the concurrent start of the rock era), with two exceptions: The Lawrence Welk Show, a big band-driven musical variety show, ran from 1951 until Welk's retirement in 1982 and in reruns from then onward (which eventually moved from commercial to public television syndication ...
Tamil-language television seasons by year (18 C) This page was last edited on 19 June 2020, at 00:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
Many television shows were produced and broadcast in color between 1972 and 1974, with limited color telecasts from mid-1974 on. Austria * 1969/ 1975: ORF: PAL: First transmission was the Eurovision broadcast of the New Year Concert from Vienna on Wednesday, 1 January 1969. Full-time color transmissions since 15 January 1975. Azerbaijan *.