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MEXICO CITY
From those huge machines to today’s technology, only eight decades have passed.
seems little to one of the most creative inventions of the human species.
On August 26, 1936, in London, the British Broadcasting Corporation made the first global television broadcast, with “Here’s looking at you!” program
The first actress to appear was Helen McKay.
It was not an easy road. Although in other latitudes, especially in the US, testing for local broadcasts were made, the BBC pioneered worldwide.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (its name in Spanish), after creating the first station in Berlin, and directed by Manfred von Ardenne, achieved the first transmission of images 24 December 1933.
After testing for a public service television in 1934, it begins in Berlin in 1935 the world’s television service, which culminated in the broadcast of the
AND THAT wAS JUST tHE BEGINNING …
Berlin Olympics in 1936. the BBC was founded on 18 October 1922 under the name of British Broadcasting Company Ltd .
It began its transmissions outside the territory of the United Kingdom in December 1932 with the aim of bringing English speakers living in what was then the Empire British. King George V transmitted the first Christmas message by radio, in which he addressed to men and women “so isolated by snow and deserts, that only can reach the voices by the air.”
The company, with John Reith as general manager, changed its name to British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927, when it was granted a royal charter and stopped being private.
Initially it spreads only radio services, and in 1936 also began broadcasting television programs regularly. The television broadcast was suspended from September 1, 1939 to June 7, 1946, during World War II.
The hearing, at the time, was extremely scarce. It was linked to official centers, personalities and, in some cases, individual receivers that went on sale from mid 30. At that time there was a unified TV production. He failed attempt to establish general rules of television and the creation of a “universal recipient”.
Each company built its receptors following their own rules. It was common to find TVs, inclusive, of round shapes.
that day
The BBC set up a transmission tower in Alexandra Palace, a building north of London.
the television broadcasts were carried testing and experimenting at least since 1856, when Giovanni Caselli invented the pantelégrafo, forerunner of the fax, but always had failed.
Now it would be different. The engineer John Logie Bird, in collaboration with the BBC, got a regular transmissions.
On August 26, 1936 began airing regularly “Here’s looking at you!” the first program the history of the small screen.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure for me to introduce the magic of television. ”
That phrase, uttered by the actor and presenter Leslie Mitchell, would mark a before and after in the history of communication.
The radio was relegated to a back seat to a small screen that perfectly exploited the power of the image.
It is necessary to emphasize two key events before 1936: the design of the disk Nipkow in 1884, which allowed in 1926 the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmitted the first signal over 700 km away and London among Glasgow- using a telephone line, and the development of cathode ray tube by scientist Joseph Thomson in 1895, although this could not be implemented on television until well into the twentieth century.
Although the first television images had already been issued, the August 26, 1936 began operating the business of television as we know it today.
With the issuance of Here’s looking at you !, a variety show hastily assembled which aired twice a day for ten days straight, from the studios of Alexandra Palace, television stopped being experimenal.
The program had a budget of $ 300 and included the participation of the group musical The Three Admirals; the tamer Miss Lutie with his horse Pogo; tap dancers and Carol Chilton Maceo Thomas; and singer Helen McKay, who gave voice to the tune of Here’s looking at you!
Such was the success of the formula, which three years later, in 1939, the US exported the British model. And it worked.
