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The Curtis Mathes Corporation was founded in 1957 and shortly thereafter entered the television industry, founding plants in Tarrant and Dallas Counties and in Athens, Texas, eventually moving most of its manufacturing to a huge Athens facility. From 1968 to 1988 it was one of three fully American-owned electronics firms and manufacturers ...
The earliest commercially made televisions sold by Baird called Televisors in the UK in 1928 were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube behind a mechanically spinning disk (patented by German engineer Paul Nipkow in 1884) with a spiral of apertures first mass-produced television set, selling about a thousand ...
The typical American household was watching television for more than five hours every day by 1960. Television had become a significant cultural and economic force. Broadcast television stations in the United States were primarily transmitted on the VHF band (channels 2–13) through the mid-1960s.
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
Post 1987 TVs were made by Mitsubishi and sold as Electrohome in name only Element Electronics: 2006 present Emerson Radio & Phonograph: 1947 1973 EMI - - Farnsworth: 1947 1965 Ferguson Electronics - - Ferranti - - Finlux (Vestel) 1971 present Fisher Electronics - - Fujitsu: 1992 present Funai: 1980s present Geloso: 1931 1972 General Electric ...
Introduction of color television in countries by decade. This is a list of when the first color television broadcasts were transmitted to the general public. Non-public field tests, closed-circuit demonstrations and broadcasts available from other countries are not included, while including dates when the last black-and-white stations in the country switched to color or shutdown all black-and ...
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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.