Editing 1928 in television

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The year '''1928 in television''' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of [[television]]-related events during 1928.
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==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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==Births==
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| January 5 || [[Walter Mondale]] || U.S. politician (died 2021)
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| January 8 || [[Sander Vanocur]] || U.S. television journalist (died 2019)
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| January 11 || [[Mitchell Ryan]] || U.S. actor (''[[Dark Shadows]]'') (died 2022)
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| January 20 || [[Peter Donat]] || Canadian-American actor (''[[Flamingo Road (TV series)|Flamingo Road]]'', ''[[The X-Files]]'') (died 2018)
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| February 1 || [[Stuart Whitman]] || U.S. actor (''[[Cimarron Strip]]'') (died 2020)
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| February 11 || [[Conrad Janis]] || U.S. jazz musician and actor (''[[Mork & Mindy]]'') (died 2022)
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| February 13 || [[Gerald Fried]] || U.S. composer (died 2023)
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| February 22 || [[Bruce Forsyth]] || English entertainer and presenter (''[[Sunday Night at the London Palladium]]'', ''[[The Generation Game]]'') (died 2017)
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| rowspan="2"| February 29 || [[Joss Ackland]] || English actor (died 2023)
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| [[Irene Sunters]] || Actress (died 2005)
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| March 20 || [[Fred Rogers]] || U.S. television personality and musician (''[[Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood]]'') (died 2003)
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| April 1 || [[George Grizzard]] || U.S. actor (''[[Law & Order]]'') (died 2007)
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| April 4 || [[Estelle Harris]] || U.S. actress (''[[Seinfeld]]'') (died 2022)
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| April 7 || [[James Garner]] || U.S. film and television actor (''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'', ''[[The Rockford Files]]'') (died 2014)
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| April 23 || [[Bill Cotton]] || British executive, controller of [[BBC One]] (1977–1981), managing director of [[BBC Television]] (1981–1987) (died 2008)
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| rowspan="2"| May 23 || [[Jeannie Carson]] || English-born U.S. actress (''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'', ''[[Hey, Jeannie!]]'')
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| [[Nigel Davenport]] || Actor (died 2013)
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| June 4 || [[Ruth Westheimer]] || Talk show host (died 2024)
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| June 20 || [[Martin Landau]] || U.S. actor (''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'') (died 2017)
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| July 1  || [[Birgitta Ulfsson]] || Finnish actress (''Mumintrollet'') (died 2017)
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| July 13 || [[Bob Crane]] || U.S. disc jockey and actor (''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'') (died 1978)
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| July 15 || [[Tom Troupe]] || U.S. actor
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| July 22 || [[Orson Bean]] || U.S. actor (''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]'') (died 2020)
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| August 10 || [[Eddie Fisher]] || Actor (died 2010)
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| August 17 || [[Willem Duys]] || Dutch radio and television presenter (died 2011)
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| September 1 || [[George Maharis]] || U.S. actor (''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'')
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| September 19 || [[Adam West]] || U.S. actor (''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'') (died 2017)
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| September 23 || [[Roger Grimsby]] || U.S. actor (died 1995)
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| September 28 || [[Robert Chandler (network executive)|Robert Chandler]] || U.S. television executive (died 2008)
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| October 17 || [[Don Collier]] || U.S. actor (''[[Outlaws (1960 TV series)|Outlaws]]'') (died 2021)
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| rowspan="3"|October 25
| [[Hal Bruno]]
| U.S. journalist ([[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]) (died 2011)
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| [[Marion Ross]] || U.S. actress (''[[Happy Days]]'')
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| [[Anthony Franciosa]] || U.S. actor (died 2006)
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| November 11 || [[Sanford Socolow]] || U.S. broadcast journalist (died 2015)
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| December 10 || [[Dan Blocker]] || U.S. actor (''[[Bonanza]]'') (died 1972)
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| December 16 || [[Terry Carter]] || U.S. actor (''[[McCloud (TV series)|McCloud]]'')  (died 2024)
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| December 17 || [[George Lindsey]] || U.S. actor (''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'') (died 2012)
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| December 28 || [[Bill Cardille]] || U.S. broadcast personality (died 2016)
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| December 29 || [[Bernard Cribbins]] || English actor (died 2022)
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==Deaths==
*December 19 - [[J. Hartley Manners]], 58, author of the first TV drama ''[[The Queen's Messenger]]''

==References==
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