Editing 1928 in television (section)

==Global television events==
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| January || 13 || Dr.&nbsp;[[Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson]] performs the first successful public television broadcast. The pictures, with 48&nbsp;lines at 16&nbsp;frames per second, are received on sets with 1.5&nbsp;sq.&nbsp;inch screens in the homes of four [[General Electric]] executives in [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]], New York. The sound is transmitted by the [[WGY (AM)|WGY]] radio station.
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| February || 09 || [[John Logie Baird]] transmits television pictures across the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]. The pictures are transmitted from Motograph House, London by telephone cable to Ben Clapp's station GK2Z at 40&nbsp;Warwick Road, [[Coulsdon]], Surrey, and then by radio to [[Hartsdale, New York|Hartsdale]], New York, United States.
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| June || 12 || The first outside broadcast is made by John Logie Baird on his roof in 133&nbsp;Long Acre, London, featuring the actor [[Jack Buchanan]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top"| July
|      02 || [[Charles Francis Jenkins]] begins thrice-weekly television broadcasts in Washington, D.C., transmitting silhouette motion pictures.<ref>Early Television Foundation, [http://www.earlytelevision.org/jenkins_articles.html Jenkins Newspaper Articles].</ref> Station [[W3XK]] broadcasts from 8 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, testing on 46.72 metres for distance reception and on 186 metres locally.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kane |first1=Joseph N. |title=Some Television 'Firsts' |url=https://archive.org/details/variety137-1940-01/page/n87 |access-date=9 July 2019 |work=Variety |date=January 3, 1940 |page=88}}</ref>
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|      03 || John Logie Baird demonstrates a colour television system achieved by using a scanning disc with spirals of red, green and blue filters at the transmitting and receiving ends.<ref>Early Television Foundation, [http://www.earlytelevision.org/baird_mechanical_color.html Baird Mechanical Color System (1928)].</ref>
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| August || 14 || [[Hugo Gernsback]]'s radio station, [[WRNY (New York City)]] begins a regular, if limited, schedule of live television broadcasts, using a mechanical system developed by a South-American inventor. It transmits 48-line images. 
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| rowspan="2" valign="top"| September 
| 1 || [[Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his [[image dissector]] camera and "oscillite" tube receiver for the press, with the transmission of motion picture clips, described by a reporter as "a queer looking little image in bluish light now, one that frequently smudges and blurs."<ref>[[Daniel Stashower]], ''The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television'', Broadway Books, 2002, p. 144. {{ISBN|0-7679-0759-0}}.</ref> It is the first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system.
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| 11 || The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama ''[[The Queen's Messenger (1928)|The Queen's Messenger]]'', on General Electric's [[W2XAD]] from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by [[Ernst Alexanderson]]. Three electromechanical cameras are used.<ref>Early Television Foundation, [http://www.earlytelevision.org/queens_messenger.html The Queen's Messenger].</ref>
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