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Encyclopedia > 1944 in television

See also: 1943 in television, other events of 1944, 1945 in television and the list of 'years in television'. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page indexes the individual year in television pages. ...

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Events

  • May 22 - The FCC increases its limits for single ownership of television stations from three to five.

May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, created, directed, and empowered by Congressional statute. ...

Debuts

  • Missui Goes A-Shopping premieres (1944-1949).
  • The World In Your Home (1944-1948).

1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1948 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

Television shows

The Voice of Firestone was a weekly broadcast of the best in classical music, as performed by the nations most popular composers. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Births


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The World's First High Definition Colour Television System (781 words)
This television picture had 600 lines of resolution, and used a monochromatic cathode-ray tube with a rotating transparent colour wheel in front of it.
The ideal television service should show a picture in colour and stereoscopic relief and should operate on an international standard of the order of definition represented by 1000 lines in conjunction with an International worldwide Television Broadcasting Service.
Colour and stereoscopic television were shown for the first time when I gave a demonstration at the annual meeting of the British Association in 1928.
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