Editing 1934 in television (section)

==Events==
*March 31 - The agreement for joint experimental transmissions by the [[BBC]] and [[John Logie Baird]]'s company ends.
*May 16 - The Seldon Committee is established to investigate the feasibility of a public television service in the [[UK]].
*July 11 - In the U.S., the [[Communications Act of 1934]] stipulates that commercial television stations "operate in the public interest, convenience, and necessity". The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the act.
*August 25 - On August 25, the inventor [[Philo Farnsworth]] gave the world's first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system, using a live camera, at the [[Franklin Institute]] of [[Philadelphia]]. His demonstrations continued for ten days afterwards. Farnsworth's system included his version of an [[image dissector]]. <ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=yt8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA838 New Television System Uses 'Magnetic Lens'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204171031/https://books.google.com/books?id=yt8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA838 |date=December 4, 2022 }}", ''Popular Mechanics'', Dec. 1934, p. 838–839.</ref><ref name="Burns370">{{harvp|Burns|1998|page=370}}</ref>
*November 5 - First television broadcasts in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]].
*Late 1934 - [[Vladimir K. Zworykin]] increases the number of scanning lines in electronic television from 240 lines at 24 frames per second to [[343-line television system|343 lines]] at 30 frames.