1931 in American television
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This is a list of American television-related events in 1931.
Events[edit]
- May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast by television, on New York City's W2XCR.
- June 3 – First television outside broadcast of a sporting event: Baird televises the Epsom Derby horse race in England.[1]
- July 21 – CBS's station W2XAB begins broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. [1]
- August – At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.[2]
- October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper company La Presse.[3]
- October 30 – NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
- November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
- December 22 – NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
- December 23 – Don Lee Broadcasting begins broadcasting low-definition electromechanical television from the station W6XAO (later KTSL) in Los Angeles, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.
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References[edit]
- ↑ "History of British television: Timeline, 1926–2017". Bradford: National Science and Media Museum. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Albert Abramson, Zworykin: Pioneer of Television, University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.
- ↑ "CRTC Origins". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. September 5, 2008. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2009. Unknown parameter
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