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1930 in television

1930 in television

Overview of the events of 1930 in television

The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.

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Global television events

  • May 22 – An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
  • July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.[1]
  • November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
  • December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

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References

  1. [1]
    Elen, Richard G. "TV Technology 2. Television on the Air". Screenonline. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
  2. [2]
    Oakes, Elizabeth (2009), A to Z of STS Scientists. Infobase publishing, pp. 51.
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