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#[[Grenada]] had also received television broadcasts from [[Trinidad and Tobago]] since 1962.
#[[Grenada]] had also received television broadcasts from [[Trinidad and Tobago]] since 1962.
#Flemish-language[[Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep|BRT]] used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language [[RTBF|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.
#Flemish-language[[Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep|BRT]] used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language [[RTBF|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.
# ''See'' [[http://www.socyberty.com/History/A-History-of-Broadcasting-in-the-Philippines-From-World-War-II-to-the-Birth-of-Philippine-Television.117847/2 How Philippines introduced their TV system]]

==See also==
==See also==
*[[Oldest television station]]
*[[Oldest television station]]

Revision as of 14:06, 24 May 2009

A map showing when television was introduced in each country.
  1928 to 1939
  1940 to 1949
  1950 to 1959
  1960 to 1969
  1970 to 1979
  1980 to 1989
  1990 to 1999
  No data

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.

Year Countries
1928  United States (Mechanical television) 1
1929  United Kingdom (Mechanical), 2  Germany (Mechanical) 3
1931  France (Mechanical),  Soviet Union (Mechanical) 14
1935  Germany (Intermediate film; semi-electronic)
1936  Germany (Electronic television),  United Kingdom (Electronic),  United States (Electronic) 15
1937  Danzig (Electronic),  France (Electronic), 19  Poland (Mechanical) 16
1938  Soviet Union (Electronic) 18
1939  Japan (Electronic), 4  Italy (Electronic) 5  Poland (Electronic) 16
1941  United States (Commercial)
1944  France (Returned)
1946  Canada,  Soviet Union (Commercial),  United Kingdom (Returned), 17  Philippines (experimental) 29
1948  Czechoslovakia 6
1949  France (Commercial)
1950  Cuba,  Mexico,  Brazil,  Switzerland,  West Germany (experimental)
1951  Argentina,  Denmark, 12  Netherlands,  Japan (Returned)
1952  Dominican Republic,  Poland (Commercial), ,  West Germany (full service),  East Germany (experimental),  Poland (Returned),  Thailand
1953  Alaska,  Belgium, 28  Philippines (Commercial),  Venezuela
1954  Colombia,  Hawaii,  Latvia18,  Morocco,  Puerto Rico,  Monaco,  Italy (Returned)
1955  Estonia18,  Luxembourg
1956  Australia,  Romania, France Algeria,  Austria,  Cyprus,  Guam,  Guatemala,  Iraq,  South Korea,  Nicaragua,  Spain,  Sweden,  Uruguay,  Yugoslavia,  East Germany (full service)
1957  Chile,  Finland,  Hong Kong, 7  Hungary,  Kuwait,  Lithuania18,  Portugal,  Saudi Arabia
1958  Bermuda,  Costa Rica, Denmark Greenland,  El Salvador,  People's Republic of China, 8  Iran,  Peru
1959  Bulgaria,  Haiti,  Honduras,  India,  Lebanon,  Nigeria,  Ecuador
1960  Albania,  Netherlands Antilles,  New Zealand,  Panama,  Southern Rhodesia,  United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria),  Norway
1961  Ireland,  Northern Rhodesia,  U.S. Virgin Islands
1962  Ivory Coast,  Republic of the Congo,  Kenya,  Malta, 21  Indonesia,  Sierra Leone,  Republic of China, 9  Trinidad and Tobago,  Gibraltar, 22  Sudan
1963  Bolivia, France French Polynesia,  Gabon,  Malaysia,  North Korea,  Singapore,  Jamaica,  Uganda , Template:Country data Republic of Upper Volta
1964  American Samoa,  Barbados, Bangladesh East Pakistan,  Ethiopia, France Guadeloupe,  Liberia, France Martinique, United Kingdom Mauritius,  North Yemen, Pakistan West Pakistan,  Réunion,  Suriname
1965  Ghana,  New Caledonia,  Paraguay,  Senegal,  South Vietnam
1966  Congo-Kinshasa,  Greece,  North Vietnam,  Tunisia,  Iceland,  Israel 23  Cambodia
1967  Djibouti, France French Guiana,  Mongolia,  Saint Pierre and Miquelon,  Madagascar,  Saint Lucia
1968  Turkey,  Jordan,  Equatorial Guinea,  Libya
1969 24  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,  United Arab Emirates
1970  Qatar
1972 thumbs St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
1973  Bahrain,  Niger,  Tanzania,  Togo,  British Virgin Islands
1974  Central African Republic,  Grenada, 25 Portugal Mozambique,  Oman
1975  Angola,  Brunei,  Dominica,  Tuvalu,  South Yemen, France Wallis and Futuna Islands
1976  South Africa
1977  Bahamas, 25  Guinea, Indonesia East Timor
1978  Afghanistan,  Benin,  Liechtenstein,  Lesotho,  Maldives,  Swaziland
1979  Mali,  Mauritania,  Sri Lanka,  Somalia
1980  Burma,  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1981  Belize, Portugal Macau, South Africa South West Africa
1983  Andorra,  Antigua and Barbuda,  Cameroon,  Laos,  Nepal,  Seychelles,  Vatican City 26
1984  Burundi,  Cape Verde,  Chad,  Comoros,  Tonga,  Faroe Islands
1986  Mayotte,  Niue,  Papua New Guinea
1987  Sweden (commercial),  Norway (commercial),  Denmark (commercial)
1989  Cook Islands,  San Marino,  Western Samoa
1991  Cayman Islands,  Falkland Islands, 27  Fiji, 28  Guyana,  Nauru,  São Tomé and Príncipe
1992  Botswana,  Rwanda,  Solomon Islands,  Croatia (supposed to),  Vanuatu
1993  Eritrea, 29  Croatia (local channels only)
1995  Gambia,  Guinea-Bissau,  Kiribati,  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha,  Turks and Caicos Islands
1999  Malawi,  Bhutan
2008  Liechtenstein (own service),  Croatia (own service)

Notes and citations

  1. 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.
  2. See J.L. Baird: Television in 1932
  3. See Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany
    and Berlin 1936: Television in Germany
  4. See The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: “Can you see me clearly?”; Public TV Image Experiments.
  5. See Early Television in Italy
  6. See [1]; Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993.
  7. Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony.
  8. This is the year when television was introduced in Mainland China. Hong Kong and Macau was not part of the People's Republic of China.
  9. 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.
  10. See Mongolia, multimedia memories, and me
  11. Television came to Fiji part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup. It arrived full-time in 1994.
  12. See History of DR
  13. See International Federation of Television Archives: Albania.
  14. R. W. Burns, Television: An International History of the Formative Years. IET, 1998, p. 488. ISBN 0-85296-914-7.
  15. 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.
  16. See The Warsaw Voice: What's On? and Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przez II wojną światową (in Polish).
  17. Off from 1939 to 1946 for the Second World War.
  18. Service existed only in Moscow and Leningrad until 1950. The Soviets introduced television broadcasting in the Ukraine (1951), Latvia (1954), Armenia and Estonia (1955), Georgia (1956), and Lithuania (1957).
  19. Television service existed in the Bahamas prior to 1977. Before then, they were received from the United States.
  20. 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.
  21. Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.
  22. Despite the Vatican receiving a television service of its own in 1983, the Vatican (being inside the city of Rome) has been able to receive Italian broadcasts since 1954, which is still the case today.
  23. 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.
  24. All of the countries that established their first commercial television station after 1988 have been listed. This is according to statistics from sources including the CIA World Factbook.
  25. Malta and San Marino had also received television broadcasts from Italy.
  26. Gibraltar had also received television broadcasts from Spain.
  27. Grenada had also received television broadcasts from Trinidad and Tobago since 1962.
  28. Flemish-languageBRT 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.
  29. See [How Philippines introduced their TV system]

See also