This was Television on April 7
1927: The first demonstration of long-distance TV in the U.S.
Before an assembled crowd of reporters and VIPs, AT&T’s Bell Labs, one of the 20th century’s preeminent research and development centers, demonstrated a television broadcast at a New York City auditorium. The transmission, via telephone lines, originated in Washington, D.C., where Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover and lauded the new technology. Later that day, a second TV broadcast was carried over radio waves from Whippany, N.J. -A.D.
Today’s Birthdays: Kevin Alejandro, cop (37); Bill Bellamy, VJ (48); James Garner, gambler (85); Clarke Peters, detective (61); Wayne Rogers, Army surgeon (80).
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One Response to “This was Television on April 7”
Bill Bellamy went to my high school. Cough.