US Edition100 Years Ago Today, an Entrepreneur Revealed His Wacky Invention—and Changed the World
- In a tiny Soho workshop on Frith Street, John Logie Baird staged the first public presentation of `true television` to Royal Institution guests, marking the centenary today.
- Baird's demonstration prompted rapid television development before World War II, leading the British Broadcasting Corporation to transmit a regular 'high definition' service from Alexandra Palace.
- Broadcasters showcased more than 300 BBC broadcasts of plays with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Valerie Hobson, while opera and ballet featured regularly, including Margot Fonteyn's performances.
- Director-General Tim Davie said `The arts remain utterly central to the BBC's mission`, yet falling funds, streamers and a threatened licence fee have led the BBC to prioritise news and high-end drama.
- Last year the BBC ran an online questionnaire, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's December Green Paper invites public debate on restoring the arts to a central place.
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The BBC once made the arts ‘utterly central’ to television – 100 years later they’re almost invisible
On the evening of January 26 1926, members of the Royal Institution and other guests climbed three flights of draughty stairs to a tiny workshop in Soho’s Frith Street. They were there to witness the first public presentation of what inventor John Logie Baird called “true television”. A hundred years later, we are now marking the centenary of British television. Throughout the following 13 years, until the second world war imposed a seven-year h…
On 26 January 1926, the first public demonstration of a "televisor" was held in front of a small group of guests.
On January 26, 1926, something historic happened. A magical device: the television, could capture moving images from one location and play them back in another – without wires.
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This Monday, it has been a hundred years since television was created. A screen that has been able to resist the years and reinvent itself to stay in the air of time. The TV continues its moult, integrating new technologies and embracing the AI, faced with fierce competition from smartphones, computers and tablets.
On 26 January 1926, Scottish engineer John Logie Baird became the first to broadcast a moving image on a "televisioner". A demonstration that allowed the creation of television over time. - "A high-speed projected image": 26 January 1926, the day television was born (New Technologies).
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