1928 in television

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The year 1928 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1928.

Global television events

Month	Day	Event
January	13	Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson performs the first successful public television broadcast. The pictures, with 48 lines at 16 frames per second, were received on sets with 1.5 sq. inch screens in the homes of four General Electric executives in Schenectady, New York. The sound was transmitted by the WGY radio station.
February	09	John Logie Baird transmits television pictures across the Atlantic. The pictures are transmitted from Motograph House, London by telephone cable to Ben Clapp's station GK2Z at 40 Warwick Road, Coulsdon, Surrey, and then by radio to Hartsdale, New York, United States.
June	12	The first outside broadcast is made by John Logie Baird on his roof in 133 Long Acre, London, featuring the actor Jack Buchanan.
July	02	Charles Francis Jenkins begins thrice-weekly television broadcasts in Washington, D.C., transmitting silhouette motion pictures.^[1]
July	03	John Logie Baird demonstrates a colour television system achieved by using a scanning disc with spirals of red, green and blue filters at the transmitting and receiving ends.^[2]
August	14	Hugo Gernsback's New York City radio station begins a regular, if limited, schedule of live television broadcasts, using a mechanical system developed by a South-American inventor. It transmits 48-line images.
September	1	Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his image dissector camera and "oscillite" tube receiver for the press, with the transmission of motion picture clips, described by a reporter as "a queer looking little image in bluish light now, one that frequently smudges and blurs."^[3] It is the first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system.
September	11	The first broadcast of a play by television, The Queen's Messenger, on General Electric's W2XAD, Schenectady, New York. Three electromechanical cameras are used.^[4]

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 11	Mitchell Ryan	U.S. actor (Dark Shadows)
January 20	Peter Donat	Canadian-American actor (Flamingo Road, The X-Files) (died 2018)
February 1	Stuart Whitman	U.S. actor (Cimarron Strip)
February 11	Conrad Janis	U.S. jazz musician and actor (Mork & Mindy)
February 22	Bruce Forsyth	English entertainer and presenter (Sunday Night at the London Palladium, The Generation Game) (died 2017)
April 4	Estelle Harris	U.S. actress (Seinfeld)
April 7	James Garner	U.S. film and television actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files) (died 2014)
April 23	Bill Cotton	British executive, controller of BBC One (1977–1981), managing director of BBC Television (1981–1987) (died 2008)
May 23	Jeannie Carson	English-born U.S. actress (Search for Tomorrow, Hey, Jeannie!)
June 20	Martin Landau	U.S. actor (Mission: Impossible) (died 2017)
July 13	Bob Crane	U.S. disc jockey and actor (Hogan's Heroes) (died 1978)
July 22	Orson Bean	U.S. actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
September 1	George Maharis	U.S. actor (Route 66)
September 19	Adam West	U.S. actor (Batman) (died 2017)
October 17	Don Collier	U.S. actor (Outlaws)
October 25	Marion Ross	U.S. actress (Happy Days)
December 10	Dan Blocker	U.S. actor (Bonanza) (died 1972)
December 17	George Lindsey	U.S. actor (The Andy Griffith Show) (died 2012)

Deaths

December 19 - J. Hartley Manners, 58, author of the first TV drama The Queen's Messenger

References

↑ Early Television Foundation, Jenkins Newspaper Articles.
↑ Early Television Foundation, Baird Mechanical Color System (1928).
↑ Daniel Stashower, The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television, Broadway Books, 2002, p. 144. ISBN 0-7679-0759-0.
↑ Early Television Foundation, The Queen's Messenger.

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[1] Early Television Foundation, Jenkins Newspaper Articles.

[2] Early Television Foundation, Baird Mechanical Color System (1928).

[3] Daniel Stashower, The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television, Broadway Books, 2002, p. 144. ISBN 0-7679-0759-0.

[4] Early Television Foundation, The Queen's Messenger.