Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
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This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included. 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 the year 1939. However, in those countries, only very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places.
| Year | Countries |
|---|---|
| 1928 |  United States (Mechanical television) [1] |
| 1929 |  United Kingdom (Mechanical) [2]  Germany (Mechanical) [3] |
| 1931 |  France (Mechanical)  Canada (Quebec only)  Soviet Union (Mechanical) |
| 1935 |  Germany (Intermediate film; semi-electronic)  Mexico (Experimental) |
| 1936 | United Kingdom (Electronic - BBC Television Service) Germany (Electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk) United States (Electronic; experimental and noncommercial until 1941 - NBC) [4] |
| 1937 |  Free City of Danzig (Electronic) France (Electronic - TF1) [5]  Poland (Mechanical) [6] |
| 1938 |  Soviet Union (electronic) |
| 1939 |  Japan (Electronic) [7]  Italy (Electronic) [8] Poland (Electronic - TVP1) [6] |
| 1942 | Occupied France |
| 1944 | France (Returned) |
| 1945 | Soviet Union (returned) [9] |
| 1946 | United Kingdom (Returned) [10]  Philippines (Experimental) |
| 1948 |  Czechoslovakia (Experimental) [11]  Chile (Experimental)  Netherlands (Experimental) |
| 1950 |  Cuba Mexico - XHTV-TV  Brazil - Rede Tupi  Switzerland - Schweizer Fernsehen  West Germany (experimental) |
| 1951 |  Argentina - Canal Siete  Denmark - DR1 [12] Netherlands - Nederland 1 Japan (Returned - NHK) |
| 1952 | Canada - CBC Chile (Sporadically until 1956)  Dominican Republic West Germany (full service) - ARD  East Germany (experimental) Poland (Returned)  Thailand (Experimental) United Kingdom ( Scotland)  Venezuela |
| 1953 |  United States ( Alaska)  Belgium - VRT [13] Czechoslovakia Philippines (thru ABS, now ABS-CBN) United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland) |
| 1954 |  Colombia United States ( Hawaii)  Italy  Morocco  Puerto Rico  Monaco  Norway (experimental) MEA |
| 1955 |  Finland30  Guatemala  Luxembourg  Romania (experimental) Thailand (TV4) |
| 1956 |  Australia Algeria  Austria  Cyprus East Germany (full service)  Guam  Iraq  Nicaragua Romania  South Korea  Spain Philippines  Panama  Portugal (experimental)  Sweden  Uruguay  Yugoslavia [14] |
| 1957 | Chile (full-service) Finland  Hong Kong [15]  Hungary  Kuwait |
| 1958 |  Bermuda  China  Moldova  El Salvador  Iran  Peru |
| 1959 |  Bulgaria  Haiti  Honduras  India  Lebanon  Nigeria  Ecuador |
| 1960 |  Costa Rica  Albania  Netherlands Antilles  New Zealand  Southern Rhodesia  United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) Norway (full service) |
| 1961 |  Ireland [16]  Northern Rhodesia  U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 1962 |  Côte d'Ivoire  Republic of the Congo  Kenya  Malta [17]  Indonesia  Sierra Leone  Republic of China [18]  Trinidad and Tobago  Gibraltar[19]  Sudan |
| 1963 |  Bolivia  North Korea French Polynesia  Gabon  Malaysia  Singapore  Jamaica  Uganda  Upper Volta |
| 1964 |  American Samoa  Barbados  East Pakistan  Ethiopia Guadeloupe  Liberia Martinique Mauritius  North Yemen West Pakistan Réunion  Suriname United Kingdom ( Wales) [20] |
| 1965 |  Ghana  New Caledonia  Paraguay  Senegal |
| 1966 |  Cambodia  Congo-Kinshasa  Greece  Tunisia  Iceland  Israel [21]  South Vietnam |
| 1967 |  Djibouti French Guiana  Mongolia Saint Pierre and Miquelon  Madagascar  Saint Lucia |
| 1968 |  Turkey  Jordan  Equatorial Guinea  Libya |
| 1969 |  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands  United Arab Emirates  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 1970 |  Qatar  North Vietnam |
| 1972 |  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla |
| 1973 |  Bahrain  Niger  Tanzania  Togo  British Virgin Islands |
| 1974 |  Afghanistan  Central African Republic  Grenada  Oman |
| 1975 |  Angola Dominica  Brunei  Tuvalu  South Yemen Wallis and Futuna Islands |
| 1976 |  South Africa |
| 1977 |  Bahamas [22]  Guinea East Timor |
| 1978 |  Benin  Liechtenstein  Lesotho  Maldives  Swaziland |
| 1979 |  Burma[23]  Mali  Mozambique  Sri Lanka  Somalia  Zambia |
| 1980 |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| 1981 |  Belize Macau South West Africa |
| 1982 |  Mauritania[24] |
| 1983 |  Andorra  Antigua and Barbuda  Cambodia (Returned)  Cameroon  Nepal  Seychelles  Vatican City [25]  Laos[26] |
| 1984 |  Burundi  Cape Verde  Chad  Comoros  Faroe Islands |
| 1986 | Mayotte  Niue  Papua New Guinea |
| 1989 |  Cook Islands  San Marino  Western Samoa |
| 1991 |  Cayman Islands  Falkland Islands[27]  Fiji[28]  Guyana  Nauru  Sao Tome and Principe |
| 1992 |  Botswana  Solomon Islands  Vanuatu |
| 1993 |  Eritrea  Rwanda |
| 1995 |  Gambia  Guinea-Bissau  Kiribati Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha  Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1996 |  Malawi  Greenland  Palau |
| 1999 |  Bhutan[29] |
| 2000 |  Tonga |
| 2007 |  Åland[30] |
| 2008 | Liechtenstein |
See also [edit]
Notes and citations [edit]
- ^ See WRGB History, How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY, W3XK: America's first television station, and "WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts," New York Times, August 13, 1928, p. 13.
- ^ See J.L. Baird: Television in 1932.
- ^ See Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany and Berlin 1936: Television in Germany.
- ^ See The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936, and 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs. "Eighty-seven video programs were telecast by NBC last year," "Where Is Television Now?", Popular Mechanics, August 1938, p. 178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," The New York Times, April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; "Early Birds," Time, June 13, 1938; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; Robert L. Pickering, "Eight Years of Television in California," California — Magazine of the Pacific, June 1939. Also note that many rural areas of the Southern United States didn't receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- ^ Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in Paris until 1937.
- ^ a b See The Warsaw Voice: What's On? and Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przed II wojną światową (in Polish, Web Archive copy).
- ^ See The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: “Can you see me clearly?”; Public TV Image Experiments.
- ^ See Early Television in Italy
- ^ Off from 1939 to 1945 for the Second World War.
- ^ Off from 1939 to 1946 for the Second World War.
- ^ See [1]; Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993.
- ^ See History of DR.
- ^ Flemish-language BRT used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language RTB used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive 4 different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a 5th standard was added with the French 625-line standard.
- ^ The date refers to the launch of the TV channel in republics and autonomuous provinces of Yugoslavia. There were RTV Zagreb, in Croatia (1956), RTV Ljubljana in Slovenia (1958), RTV Belgrade in Serbia (1958), RTV Skopje in Macedonia (1964), RTV Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1969), and RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in Montenegro (1971). In Kosovo (RTV Priština) and Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad), it was introduced in 1975.
- ^ Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony.
- ^ Ireland had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.
- ^ Previously received television broadcasts from Italy.
- ^ This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the Chinese Civil War, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and other islands, and Mainland China was controlled by the People's Republic of China.
- ^ Gibraltar had previously received television broadcasts from Spain.
- ^ Wales had received broadcasts from England since 1952.
- ^ The Israeli Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Rothschild Fund started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A public state-owned TV channel started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.
- ^ The Bahamas had previously received broadcasts from the United States.
- ^ Test service available only in Yangon in 1979. Formal launch in 1981. See [2].
- ^ http://www.tvm.mr/fr/index.php?page=1&id=1
- ^ Although the Vatican did not have a television service of its own until 1983, broadcasts from Italy had been received since 1954.
- ^ http://www.culturalprofiles.net/laos/Units/19.html
- ^ Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.
- ^ Television came to Fiji part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup. It arrived full-time in 1994.
- ^ "Bhutan TV Follows Cyber Launch". BBC News. 2 June 1999.
- ^ http://www.nyan.ax/nyheter/?news_id=25344 (Swedish).
