Rare Film of the First Public Broadcast of Television

[admin]

It was July 7th, 1936 and this is the rare film of the first public broadcast of Television.

The RCA transmitter top of the Empire State Building broadcast the strongest TV signal—cast terrestrially and in to space.

The informal content is like a 1936 “YouTube video”. pic.twitter.com/UF8jZENEX5

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) April 25, 2020

[TrueTomHarley]

And to think that the gadget is not yet 100 years old.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

This was the first public broadcast by RCA corporation, in the United States, in 1936.

The first regular electronic television service in Germany began in Berlin on March 22, 1935, as Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk. Broadcasting from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, it used a 180-line system, and was on air for 90 minutes, three times a week. Very few receivers were ever privately owned, and viewers went instead to Fernsehstuben (television parlors).

There is more to the story, worth researching.

[admin]

Interesting.... so we got it from the Germans....