Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
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This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.
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- See WRGB History, How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY, W3XK: America's first television station, and "WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts," New York Times, August 13, 1928.
- See J.L. Baird: Television in 1932
- See Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany
and Berlin 1936: Television in Germany - See The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: “Can you see me clearly?”; Public TV Image Experiments.
- See Early Television in Italy
- Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1992.
- Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony. Hong Kong is now a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
- This is the year when television was introduced in Mainland China. At that time, the People's Republic of China did not administer Hong Kong and Macau.
- This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the Chinese Civil War, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and other islands, and Mainland China was controlled by the People's Republic of China.
- See Mongolia, multimedia memories, and me
- Television came to Fiji part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup. It arrived full-time in 1994.
- See History of DR
- See International Federation of Television Archives: Albania.
- R. W. Burns, Television: An International History of the Formative Years. IET, 1998, p. 488. ISBN 0-85296-914-7.
- See The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936, and 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs. Reguarly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in New York and Los Angeles in April 1938. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," The New York Times, April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10. Robert L. Pickering, "Eight Years of Television in California," California — Magazine of the Pacific, June 1939.
- See The Warsaw Voice: What's On? and Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przez II wojną światową (in Polish).
- Returned from 1939 to 1946 for the war.
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[edit] See also
- Oldest television station
- Timeline of the color television in countries