The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" Berlin (TV Station Paul Nipkow) was the first television station in Germany, and world's first station to broadcast a regular program from March 22 1935 until it was shut down in 1944. Its headquarters were in Berlin, Germany. It was named after Paul Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk. A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (August 22, 1860 - August 24, 1940) was a German engineer, who devised a mechanical apparatus, a spinning disk to scan images that was used in early television. ... A Nipkow disk is a mechanical, geometrically operating image scanning device (by itself, it performs neither image acquisition or reproduction), invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, which was primarily used as a fundamental component in mechanical television. ...

The first test transmission was introduced to the public on April 18th 1934. The station was only receivable in and around Berlin. It became popular when it broadcasted coverage from the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. About 150,000 viewers saw the games on a few private TV-sets and in many public TV chambers. The programme was rarely used for propaganda issues, as Goebbels preferred radio as a mass-media. From 1942 to 1944 the germans also restarted the TV station in Paris to broadcast programme in german and french. In 1944 the station was stut down, as most other cultural events, as a consequence of the approach front. The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. ... Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. ...