What year was the tv introduced to the public?

Answer 1

1939 I believe was the beginning of regular broadcasting in NYC. About 200 sets. Your set only got one channel and you bought the set from the broadcaster.
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Answer 2

May 11, 1928 WGY in Schenectady, NY became the first station to begin regularly scheduled telecasts. It showed programs 3 afternoons a week.
July 30, 1930 The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) began operating W2XBS, an experimental television station in NYC.
Oct. 30, 1931 The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) began experimental broadcasts from atop the Empire State Building.
April 30, 1939 NBC introduced television as a regular service. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President to be seen on TV.
Jan. 20, 1949 Inauguration of President Harry S. Truman was seen over 15 stations from Boston to St. Louis
Sept. 4, 1951 First coast-to-coast broadcast showed President Truman opening the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference at San Francisco
And the Rest is HISTORY

Answer 3

Well, it depends what you mean.

January 23, 1926

On January 23, 1926, John Logie Baird (of Scotland) gave the world's first public demonstration of a mechanical television apparatus to approximately 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory on Frith Street. These were images of living human faces, not outlines or silhouettes, with complete tonal gradations of light and shade.


April 7, 1927 - Bell Telephone Labs and AT&T give a USA public mechanical television demonstration over both wire and radio circuits. The demonstration was directed by Dr. Herbert Ives and Dr. Frank Gray. Pictures and sound were sent by wire from Washington D.C., to New York City. A wireless demonstration also occurred 22 miles away, from Whippany, New Jersey, to New York City.

The main part of the demonstration was a speech by Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, which originated in Washington D.C. The 50-line pictures, transmitted at 18 frames per second, were received on a 2" x 3" screen. It was claimed that there was no difference in quality between the pictures sent by either wire or radio.

1930 Baird "Televisor" - UK

First "mass-produced" scanning disc television


1935

Patent interference between Zworykin and Farnsworth ruled in favor of Farnsworth. Prevents RCA from gaining total patent control of television.


Sarnoff evicts Armstrong from the Empire State building and announces million dollar research and testing plans for television.


March - Germany begins what they call the "first television broadcasting service in the world". Low resolution, few receivers.


1936

April - First RCA demonstration in 4 years of all-electronic system, 343 lines, 30 frames per second.


Farnsworth also broadcasting 343-30 at Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania station.


Summer -- Berlin Olympics televised by Telefunken and Fernseh, using RCA and Farnsworth equipment, respectively.


Fall -- Farnsworths travel to England to help Baird in his competition with EMI.


November 2 -- BBC begins two-year Baird-EMI competition, broadcasting from Alexandra Palace. It is hailed as the "world's first, public, regular, high-definition TV station".


November 30 -- Fire destroys Baird labs at Crystal Palace




1937

February -- BBC declares EMI the victor in competition.


The coronation of King George VI and the Wimbledon tennis tournament are televised in England. Nine thousand sets are sold in London.


France orders the world's most powerful transmitter to be constructed in the Eiffel Tower.


18 Experimental Television Stations are operating in the United States.


1938

June -- RCA announces the Image Iconoscope, a camera tube that is almost ten times more sensitive to light than the earlier Iconoscope.


October -- Sarnoff announces that RCA will begin regular broadcasting at the World's Fair


1939

March 31 -- Farnsworth begins operations at Fort Wayne, Indiana


April 20 -- Sarnoff announces from the New York World's Fair that "Now we have added sight to sound". Ten days later, at the opening ceremonies, FDR is the first president to be televised, TV sets go on sale the following day. Click here for a listing of television stations operating in the United States.


Approximately twenty-thousand electronic sets operating in England.



1 September 1939 -- UK-television transmissions switched off due to imminent outbreak of war.


October 2 -- Farnsworth signs patent-licensing agreement with RCA. This is the first time that RCA has ever agreed to pay royalties to another company, since it is founded in 1919.

1940

FCC announced September 1st start date for commercial television, but canceled that decision when RCA began advertising early.
FCC formed a special committee, called the NTSC (National Television Standards Committee), to decide on industry standards. There were 23 experimental television broadcasting stations operating in the United States.
JUNE: Both RCA and Philco televised the Republican convention, held in Philadelphia
AUGUST: A young (33) Peter Goldmark announced to the NTSC that CBS had marketable color television.


1941

MARCH: The NTSC announced the recommended USA standard of 525 lines and 30 fps (frames per second). FCC announced that commercial broadcasting could begin July 1st.
JULY 1st: NBC was the first with commercially sponsored broadcasts -- then, CBS, DuMont and others followed in the Fall
DECEMBER 7th: Pearl Harbor