The Netherlands Had Its First TV Broadcast 75 Years Ago - DutchNews.nl
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We can now look back on no less than three-quarters of a century of Dutch television. Yet the platform has not had an easy time in recent years. With declining viewership, the influence of television seems to be slowly diminishing.
Thousands of people stood in front of radio shop windows or watched in a café, and the Royal Family watched from Soestdijk Palace: the first television broadcast in the Netherlands was 75 years ago today. In 1951, there were only about 500 television sets in the country, and the influence the medium would have could not yet be estimated. The radio was where it was all happening. That first broadcast lasted an hour and a half. Everything was liv…
Telegraph engineer F.C. Wamberg told Ingeniøren about the promising experiments with television – a job that requires mastery of several branches of engineering.
A living room looked very different in the 1940s and 50s than it does today. But one thing is certain: since the arrival of television, the furnishing of our homes has truly changed: many living rooms have the television as the centerpiece, and that is still the case.
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