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 , the United Kingdom , Germany , and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by Very few cities in each country had television service.
Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. This television-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. October No television. No data. History [ edit ].
See also [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. The service reached the entirety of the Russian SSR alone by the late s. Ankara got television in when TRT started its television service.
From then on, a slow process to start a national service began. Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive four different standards: Belgian , European , Belgian , French Later a fifth standard was added with the French line standard. Saga Prefecture only gained television NHK and commercial in due to overspill from neighboring prefectures and usage of UHF as the preferred band.
Local programmes started in The Rediffusion service was a cable network until , when it converted to terrestrial television. The frequency was later occupied by Teleamazonas starting in RTS is often erroneously believed to be the first. The union began in and existed until , when Syria seceded from the union.
