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The Indian Head pattern as mentioned in Ziff Davis's Radio & Television News trade magazine in January 1949. Indian Head pattern with its elements labeled, describing the use of each element in aligning a black and white analog TV receiver. The Indian-head test pattern was created by RCA at their factory in Harrison, New Jersey. Each element of ...
By the time electronic television matured in the late 1930s, some more varied experimental programs, including live sportscasts and some game shows (such as the CBS Television Quiz and Truth or Consequences), were appearing; most television service was suspended beginning in 1942 because of World War II. The decade-long period of new ...
UK (1936, EMI): 405 lines / 50 Hz. Used by the BBC Alexandra Palace television station initially from November 1936 to 1939 and then 1946 to 1985 (interruption due to Second World War). [24] [25] The EMI 405 lines system was the first to have an ITU System Letter Designation, and is known as System A.
Disney anthology television series (various titles) US 1954–present Mostly an anthology TV series, originally hosted by Walt Disney, with some episodes dedicated to animation. All of these were compilation episodes, with older Disney cartoons combined with new animation.
The American public was also unsure what to make of Hepburn strutting around in pants in the 1930s, before the practicalities of World War II would make them more commonplace among women.
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Roger Ailes, American television executive (died 2017) Lainie Kazan, American actress; May 17 – Peter Gerety, actor; May 22 Michael Sarrazin, actor (died 2011) Bernard Shaw, journalist (died 2022) May 24 – Arvin Brown, American theatre and television director; June 1 – René Auberjonois, actor, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (died 2019)
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.