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Re: Star Ranger 2

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The Australian Panther

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Re: Star Ranger 2
« on: July 07, 2020, 05:30:03 AM »

If this comic was published in 1937, it probably was one of the first references to TV in print media.
[Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927]
[RCA, the company that dominated the radio business in the United States with its two NBC networks, invested $50 million in the development of electronic television. To direct the effort, the company's president, David Sarnoff, hired the Russian-born scientist Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who had participated in Rosing's experiments. In 1939, RCA televised the opening of the New York World's Fair, including a speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was the first president to appear on television. Later that year RCA paid for a license to use Farnsworth's television patents. RCA began selling television sets with 5 by 12 in (12.7 by 25.4 cm) picture tubes. The company also began broadcasting regular programs, including scenes captured by a mobile unit and, on May 17, 1939, the first televised baseball game between Princeton and Columbia universities.]
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Andrew999

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Re: Star Ranger 2
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2020, 07:14:28 AM »

The BBC made its first mechanical broadcast in 1932 and regular electronic broadcasts from 1936, mostly to a London audience. Cable TV (reducing the cost considerably) began in Bristol and Hull in 1938.

I have no idea when TV was first mentioned in a British story paper or comic - but I'll read a few to see if I can find out!
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