- 1940 in television
The year 1940 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of
television -related events in1940 .__TOC__
Events
*January - The FCC holds public hearings on television.
*February 25 - The firstice hockey game is televised, theNew York Rangers vsMontreal Canadiens , fromMadison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV.*
February 28 - The firstbasketball game is televised, from Madison Square Garden; Fordham vs theUniversity of Pittsburgh .
*March 15 -RCA cuts the price of television sets.
*May 21 -Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
*June - W2XBS in New York (NBC ) covers the Republican National Convention fromPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania for 33 hours, over a five day period. The signal is transmitted viacoaxial cable .
*August 29 -Peter Carl Goldmark ofCBS announces his invention of acolor television system.
*September 3 - CBS resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from theChrysler Building .Births
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February 2 ,David Jason , actor
*February 6 ,Tom Brokaw , journalist
*February 8 ,Ted Koppel , journalist
*February 27 ,Howard Hesseman ,actor
*March 7 ,Daniel J. Travanti , actor
*March 8 ,Susan Clark , actress
*August 9 ,Beverlee McKinsey , actress
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