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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, Great Britain, 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.
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.
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) – The nation's third-largest commercial network, ABC was originally formed from the NBC Blue Network (1927–1945), a radio network which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forced NBC (National Broadcasting Company) to sell in 1943 for anti-monopoly reasons, the ABC-TV network began broadcasting in 1948.
Regular broadcast television start dates vary widely by country; in many regions, initial broadcast video deployment was delayed due to mobilisation for World War II. (Note: The listing of current broadcast channels for these stations is not up-to-date as many low-VHF stations have moved to UHF frequencies as a result of digital television ...
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1995 in British television – This year sees the launch of several new satellite TV channels, as well as the first National Television Awards, while Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd is awarded the licence to run Channel 5. Father Ted also debuts on Channel 4. 1995 also sees the beginning of the sport game show They Think It's All Over.
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The pages below contain lists of television stations in the U.S. by call sign.. Historically, stations to the east of the Mississippi River were given call signs beginning with the letter W, stations to the west K.