fadedsignals:RCA, co-founder of NBC, founded experimental TV station W2XBS in New York City in 1928.
fadedsignals:RCA, co-founder of NBC, founded experimental TV station W2XBS in New York City in 1928. It was used the low-definition mechanical TV scanning system in its experimental broadcasts. The famous picture of a Felix the Cat doll was one of the first TV images ever broadcast, and it aired over W2XBS.The station went off the air in 1933 as RCA researched the all-electronic cathode-ray tube TV technology. It returned to the air in 1935 to test the CRT system. By 1938, NBC began semi-regular TV transmissions over W2XBS. It also achieved a number of television firsts, according to Wikipedia:…including the first televised Broadway drama (June 1938), live news event covered by mobile unit (a fire in an abandoned building in November 1938), live telecast of a Presidential speech (Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World’s Fair), the first live telecasts of college and Major League Baseball (both in 1939), the first telecast of a National Football League game (also in 1939), the first telecast of a National Hockey League game (early 1940), and the first network telecast of a political convention (the 1940 Republican National Convention, held June 24–28 in thePhiladelphia Civic Center), and the broadcast of the feature film The Crooked Circle on June 18, 1940.In 1941, the station received a commercial license and the call letters WNBT, along with CBS’ WCBW-TV. The FCC ordered both stations sign on simultaneously July 1, 1941, so neither could claim to be first. WNBT signed on at 1:30 p.m. and WCBW signed on at 2:30 p.m., giving NBC’s station the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating commercial TV station in the United States. WNBT originally broadcast over Channel 1. It moved to Channel 4 in 1946. The station became WRCA-TV in 1954 and then WNBC-TV in 1960. Here is the first of three parts of WNBT’s 10th anniversary special, which aired in 1949:Source: Wikipedia (WNBC) -- source link
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