1928 in British television

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This is a list of British television related events in 1928.

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February 8 John Logie Baird transmits television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The pictures are transmitted from Motograph House, London by telephone cable to Ben Clapp's station GK2Z at 40 Warwick Road, Coulsdon, Surrey, and then by radio to Hartsdale, New York, United States.
June 12 The first outside broadcast is made by John Logie Baird on his roof in 133 Long Acre, London, featuring the actor Jack Buchanan.
July 3 John Logie Baird demonstrates a colour television system achieved by using a scanning disc with spirals of red, green and blue filters at the transmitting and receiving ends. [2]
September 22 – 29 John Logie Baird's Television Development Company demonstrates their model A, B, and C 'televisors' to the general public at the Radio Exhibition held at Olympia in London. The exhibition proves hugely popular, with an estimated nine hundred people per day watching the demonstration programming. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Timeline of British Television". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  2. ↑ Early Television Foundation, Baird Mechanical Color System (1928).
  3. ↑ Dinsdale, A., ed. (November 1928). "Editorial". Television. 1 (9). The Television Society. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "Who is Lionel Blair" interview, radiotimes.com, 11–17 February 2017, pg. 32;


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