Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

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This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included. This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by the year 1939. However, in those countries, only very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places.

Year Countries
1928 United States (Mechanical television) [1]
1929 United Kingdom (Mechanical),[2]  Germany (Mechanical),[3]  Australia (Mechanical, experimental, after hours on two existing Melbourne radio stations),[4][5][6]  Netherlands (Experimental; in Scheveningen)[7]
1931 France (Mechanical),  Canada (Quebec only),  Soviet Union (Mechanical)
1934 Australia (Electronic, experimental, Brisbane)[8]
1935 Germany (Intermediate film; semi-electronic),  Mexico (Electronic),  Netherlands (Experimental; in Eindhoven by Philips)[7]
1936 United Kingdom (Electronic - BBC Television Service),  Germany (Electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk),  United States (Electronic; experimental and non-commercial until 1941 - NBC) [9]
1937Free City of Danzig Free City of Danzig (Electronic),  France (Electronic),[10]  Poland (Mechanical) [11]
1938 Soviet Union (electronic)  Turkey (Experimental)
1939 Empire of Japan (Electronic) (Experimental),[12]  Italy (Electronic),[13]  Poland (Electronic) [11]
1941 United States ( New York) Regular Commercial telecasts,  Pennsylvania) .
1942Nazi Germany Occupied France
1944 France (Returned)
1945 Soviet Union (returned) [14]
1946 United States ( Iowa (experimental),  United Kingdom (Returned),[15]  Philippines (Experimental)
1947 United States ( California,  Washington, D.C.,  Maryland,  Missouri)
1948 Czechoslovakia (Experimental),[16]  Chile (Experimental),  United States ( Ohio),  Washington),  Minnesota,  Texas,  Tennessee),  Canada (Experimental)
1949 United States ( Iowa,  Oklahoma,  North Carolina,  Florida)
1950 United States ( Iowa (Des Moines),  Tennessee (Nashville)),  Cuba,  Brazil,   Switzerland,  West Germany (experimental),  Mexico (Experimental), [17]  Japan (Experimental)
1951 Argentina,  Denmark,[18]  Netherlands[7]
1952 Turkey,  Canada,  United States ( Spokane,  Colorado),  Chile (Sporadically until 1956),  Dominican Republic,  West Germany (full service),  East Germany (experimental),  Poland (Returned),  Thailand (Experimental),  Hawaii,  United Kingdom ( Scotland),  Venezuela
1953 Japan (Returned),  Canada, ( Ottawa, Vancouver),  United States ( California (Fresno),  Las Vegas)  Belgium,[19]  Czechoslovakia,  Philippines (thru ABS, now ABS-CBN),  United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland)
1954 Colombia,  United States ( New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming),  Canada, ( Alberta,  Manitoba),  Australia (experimental),  Italy,  Latvian SSR,  Morocco,  Puerto Rico,  Monaco,  Norway (experimental)
1955 Mexico (Returned),  Estonian SSR,  Guatemala,  Luxembourg,  Romania (experimental),  Thailand (Official)
1956 Australia, France French Algeria,[20]  Armenian SSR,  Austria,  Azerbaijan SSR,  Byelorussian SSR,  Cyprus,  East Germany (full service),  Guam,  Georgian SSR,  Iraq,  Nicaragua,  Romania,  South Korea,  Spain,  Philippines,  Panama,  Portugal (experimental),  Sweden,  Ukrainian SSR (regular programming),  Uruguay,  Uzbek SSR, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia [21]
1957 Chile (full-service),  Finland (test programming),  Hong Kong,[22]  Hungary, Kuwait,  Lithuanian SSR[23],  Portugal (full service)
1958 Bermuda,  China,  Finland (regular programming), Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakh SSR, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavian SSR,  El Salvador,  Iran,  Peru,  United Kingdom ( Wales) [24]
1959 Bulgaria,  Ecuador,  Haiti,  Honduras,  India, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Kirghiz SSR (regular programming),  Lebanon,  Nigeria, United States Ryukyu Islands,[25]  Tajik SSR, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmen SSR
1960 Albania,  Costa Rica,  Netherlands Antilles,  New Zealand,  Norway (full service),  Southern Rhodesia,  United Arab Republic[26]
1961 Ireland,[27]  Northern Rhodesia,  U.S. Virgin Islands
1962 Ivory Coast,  Republic of the Congo,  Kenya,  Malta,[28]  Indonesia,  Sierra Leone,  Republic of China,[29]  Trinidad and Tobago,  Gibraltar,[30]  Sudan
1963 Bolivia,  North Korea, France French Polynesia,  Gabon,  Malaysia,  Singapore,  Jamaica,  Uganda,  Upper Volta
1964 American Samoa  Barbados, Bangladesh Bangladesh,  Ethiopia France Guadeloupe,  Liberia, France Martinique, United Kingdom Mauritius,  North Yemen, Pakistan West Pakistan,  Réunion,  Saudi Arabia
1965 Dutch Guiana (trial and regular programming),  Ghana,  New Caledonia,  Paraguay,  Senegal
1966 Cambodia,  Congo-Kinshasa,  Greece,  Tunisia,  Iceland,  Israel,[31] South Vietnam South Vietnam
1967 Djibouti, France French Guiana,  Mongolia,  Saint Pierre and Miquelon,  Madagascar,  Saint Lucia
1968 Jordan,  Equatorial Guinea,  Libya
1969 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,  Abu Dhabi (now part of United Arab Emirates)
1970 Qatar, North Vietnam North Vietnam
1972 Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
1973 Bahrain,  Niger,  Tanzania,  Togo,  British Virgin Islands
1974 Afghanistan,  Central African Republic,  Grenada,  Oman
1975 Angola,  Dominica,  Brunei, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Kosovo (RTV Priština),  Tuvalu (foreign-owned launching),  South Yemen, France Wallis and Futuna Islands
1976 South Africa
1977 Bahamas,[32]  Guinea, Indonesia East Timor
1978 Benin,  Lesotho,  Maldives,  Swaziland
1979 Burma,[33]  Sri Lanka
1980 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1981 Belize, Portugal Macau,  Mozambique, South Africa South West Africa
1982 Greenland,[34]  Mauritania[35]
1983 Andorra,  Antigua and Barbuda,  Cambodia (as Kampuchea; re-established),  Cameroon,  Mali,    Nepal,  Seychelles,  Somalia,[36]   Vatican City,[37]  Laos[38]
1984 Burundi,  Cape Verde,  Chad,  Comoros,  Faroe Islands
1986 Mayotte,  Niue
1987 Papua New Guinea (foreign-owned launching)
1989 Cook Islands,  Guinea-Bissau,[39][40]  San Marino,  Western Samoa
1991 Cayman Islands,  Falkland Islands,[41]  Fiji[42]  Guyana,  Nauru,

 Rwanda  São Tomé and Príncipe

1992 Botswana,  Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
1993 Eritrea,
1995 Gambia,  Kiribati,  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha,  Turks and Caicos Islands
1996 Malawi,  Palau
1998 Bhutan[43]
2000 Tonga
2002 Kiribati (native - closed in 2013),  Western Sahara[44]
2006 Åland[45]
2008 Liechtenstein,  Papua New Guinea (state-owned launching)

Countries without television

See also

Notes and citations

  1. ↑ See WRGB History, How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY, W3XK: America's first television station, and "WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts," The New York Times, August 13, 1928, p. 13.
  2. ↑ See J.L. Baird: Television in 1932.
  3. ↑ See Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany and Berlin 1936: Television in Germany.
  4. ↑ Australian TV – The First 25 Years by Peter Bielby, page 173. ISBN 0-17-005998-7
  5. ↑ Linking a Nation – Chap 9 – Australian Heritage Council
  6. ↑ Peter Luck, 50 Years of Australian Television ISBN 1-74110-367-3 p.15
  7. 1 2 3 See Eerste NTS journaal op de Nederlandse televisie.
  8. ↑ "Birth of Our Nation". Brisbane Courier Mail. Archived from the original on February 15, 2008.
  9. ↑ See The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936, and 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs. "Eighty-seven video programs were telecast by NBC last year," "Where Is Television Now? Archived 2008-09-13 at the Wayback Machine.", Popular Mechanics, August 1938, p. 178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," The New York Times, April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; "Early Birds," Time, June 13, 1938; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; Robert L. Pickering, "Eight Years of Television in California," California — Magazine of the Pacific, June 1939. Also note that many rural areas of the Southern United States didn't receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  10. ↑ Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in Paris until 1937.
  11. 1 2 See The Warsaw Voice: What's On? and Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przed II wojną światową at the Wayback Machine (archived September 28, 2007) (in Polish).
  12. ↑ See The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: “Can you see me clearly?” Archived 2013-01-01 at the Wayback Machine.; Public TV Image Experiments Archived 2016-05-26 at the Wayback Machine..
  13. ↑ See Early Television in Italy
  14. ↑ Off from 1939 to 1945 for the Second World War.
  15. ↑ Off from 1939 to 1946 for the Second World War.
  16. ↑ See ; Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993.
  17. ↑ ["Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-10-24. Latin America's first experimental television station (in Spanish)
  18. ↑ See History of DR.
  19. ↑ Dutch-language BRT used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language RTB used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive 4 different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a 5th standard was added with the French 625-line standard.
  20. ↑ Cheurfi, Achour (September 2010). Radio et télévision : histoire d'un monopole. La presse algérienne : génèse, conflits et défis (in French). Algiers: Casbah Éditions. p. 88–p. 148.
  21. ↑ The date refers to the launch of the TV channel in republics and autonomuous provinces of Yugoslavia. There were RTV Zagreb, in Croatia (1956), RTV Ljubljana in Slovenia (1958), RTV Belgrade in Serbia (1958), RTV Skopje in Macedonia (1964), RTV Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1969), and RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in Montenegro (1971). In Kosovo (RTV Priština) and Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad), it was introduced in 1975.
  22. ↑ Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony.
  23. ↑ http://www.lrt.lt/en/about/history
  24. ↑ Wales had received broadcasts from England since 1952.
  25. ↑ Television was introduced in the Ryukyu Islands (now part of Japan) when they were under U.S. administration,
  26. ↑ The United Arab Republic was a short-lived political union between  Egypt and  Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.
  27. ↑ Ireland had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.
  28. ↑ Previously received television broadcasts from Italy.
  29. ↑ This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the Chinese Civil War, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and other islands, and Mainland China was controlled by the People's Republic of China.
  30. ↑ Gibraltar had previously received television broadcasts from Spain.
  31. ↑ The Israeli Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Rothschild Fund started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A public state-owned TV channel started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.
  32. ↑ The Bahamas had previously received broadcasts from the United States.
  33. ↑ Test service available only in Yangon in 1979. Formal launch in 1981. See "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2009-01-04. .
  34. ↑ http://knr.gl/en
  35. ↑ http://tvm.mr/ar/%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A9/
  36. ↑ ]https://books.google.cl/books?id=egV-LkASXCgC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Somalia+Television+introduced+1983&source=bl&ots=CO7rBgwr1U&sig=tY63DorxhpzRGPgJkUw2VjMuphk&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih2ofF59HSAhWFEZAKHeEoA3gQ6AEISDAG#v=onepage&q=Somalia%20Television%20introduced%201983&f=false Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa]
  37. ↑ Although the Vatican did not have a television service of its own until 1983, broadcasts from Italy had been received since 1954.
  38. ↑ Television available from Nong Khai city in Thailand since mid-1970s]]
  39. ↑ "Guiné-Bissau: Televisão celebra 17º aniversário com 14 horas de emissão". Agência Angola Press. 15 Novembro 2006, 10h38. Retrieved 9 Outubro 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate=, |date= (help)
  40. ↑ LUSA (Agência de Notícias de Portugal, S.A.) (14 Novembro 2007, 15h23). "Único canal de televisão da Guiné-Bissau comemora 18 anos". Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. Retrieved 9 Outubro 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate=, |date= (help)
  41. ↑ Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.
  42. ↑ Television came to Fiji part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup. It arrived full-time in 1994.
  43. ↑ "Bhutan TV Follows Cyber Launch". BBC News. 2 June 1999.
  44. ↑ "Sahrawis launch national television". Afrol News. 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
  45. ↑ http://www.radiotv.ax/om-alands-radio (Swedish).
  46. ↑ https://publicmediaalliance.org/new-public-television-service-solomon-islands/
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