5 March 1929: Baird broadcasts television using the BBC’s London transmitter. Silhouette images from motion picture films were broadcast to the general public on a regular basis, at a resolution of just 48 lines. The concept of television was the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots initially starting from back even in the 18th century. Television broadcasting began as early as 1928, when the Federal Radio Commission authorized inventor Charles Jenkins to broadcast from W3XK, an experimental station in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. During the 1920s and 1930s, technological innovations allowed the transmission of images via radio waves. Back then there were still only three television channels in this country (Channel 4 was three years away from its first transmission). The television industry had been poised for takeoff as early as 1939, when NBC, CBS, and DuMont, a growing network owned by an ambitious television manufacturer, established experimental stations in New York City and began limited broadcasting to the few thousand households that had purchased the first sets for consumer use. 10 August 1928: Baird demonstrates stereoscopic (3D) television. The first actual scheduled television broadcast happened on July 2, 1928 in a Washington, DC suburb, however initially only silhouette images were first broadcast. Four years later, at about the time when NBC was organizing its radio network, Philo Farnsworth improved the system and patented the dissector tube. Nearly a half century elapsed from the invention of television to the broadcasting of House Floor proceedings. The company broadcast just outside Washington, D.C., and continued to air “radio movies” to the general public five nights a week until 1932. Because there is only one radio transmitter available, sound and vision are transmitted alternately for 2 minutes each. Direct broadcast satellite DBS A satellite-based service that for a monthly fee downlinks hundreds of satellite channels and services; DBS began distributing video programming directly to households in 1994 On July 21, 1931 the first regular 7 days a week television schedule was introduced by CBS’s New York station. "Tele-" is Greek for "far", while "-vision" is from the Latin "visio", meaning "vision" or "sight". W3XK was the first commercially licensed television station in the US, owned by inventor Charles Francis Jenkins. In 1923, Vladimir K. Zworykin, an employee of Westinghouse, patented the icono-scope television picture tube. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television programming and transmission as well. Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The first American TV station began broadcasting on July 2, 1928. TELEVISION BROADCASTING, HISTORY OFThe first flickering shadows of television were already in the ether before radio was well established. Terrestrial television is a type of television broadcasting in which the television signal is transmitted by radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth-based) transmitter of a television station to a TV receiver having an antenna.The term terrestrial is more common in Europe and Latin America, while in the United States it is called broadcast or over-the-air television (OTA). The word television is a hybrid word, coming from both Greek and Latin. Television receivers first were sold to the public in 1939—though regular network programming did not begin for another decade. 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