1929 in television

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Hit Television Shows 3 Other Popular Television Shows 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• June 27 - Herbert E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City demonstrate color mechanical television, (this was first acheived by John Logie Baird the previous year). The images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington, DC.
• September 30 - The BBC and John Logie Baird begin daily experimental broadcasting of 30-line television transmissions using the BBC’s 2LO transmitter.
• Milton Berle appears in an experimental television broadcast in the US.

Other Popular Television Shows

Births

• September 5 - Bob Newhart, comedian, actor